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I don't find 4e more or less complex than 3e; I find it less "fiddly." Between the constant changes to ability scores through buffs, debuffs, damage, negative levels, etc. and the sheer number of minions, auras, xd6 duration effects and so forth, a round of 3e can quickly turn into a nightmarish...

This was a preview of the stalker build. According to the table of contents there is also a beguiler build. I am guessing that will be a controller.

I didn't appreciate the flippant dismissal of the first letter. Sure it was hyperbolic in tone, but it raised a good point.

1. You should probably check with your DM before you build an orc/half-orc. They don't exist in the Dark Sun universe because they were annihilated during a mass genocide thousands of years ago. Of course, he might not include that detail in his campaign. 2. Frost cheese isn't going to work...

Well, staff expertise gives the +1/+2/+3 feat bonus to attacks, lets you cast in melee without having to worry about opportunity attacks and it covers area attacks as well as ranged attacks. Sorcerous blade channeling only covers ranged attacks. I don't think it would be overpowered to attach a...

That would also be a neat trick for revenants; they could choose one ability score for which their original race gets a bonus and get that bonus. They'd then be +2 Con, +2X.

In my perfect world they would also go back and make all warlock powers Con or Charisma like they did with the sorcerer-pact in Dark Sun. If they don't want to do that, they can at least give star pact warlocks the option for their at-will. And then maybe they can make the paladin's divine...

The first question is mine. They used the exact wording of my question: "Is there any plan to "essentialize" the races that were not included in Heroes of the Fallen Lands/Forgotten Kingdoms? The gnome, goliath, genasi, warforged, and deva don't currently have the option to choose stats, which...

I have a way to do it legally in the paragon tier without going hybrid. You do have to worship the Traveler from the Eberron campaign setting though. 1. Take the Traveler's Harlequin paragon path. It will remove the limit on multiclassing to only one class. It also immeadiately gives you a free...

I cannot wait to see how this will be accomplished. I'd even be happy to see it as a module for the Neverwinter Nights II engine.

Just a a thought experiment. The great conflict of the core cosmology in 4e is between the chaotic primordials and the great proponents of order, the gods. The primordials are beings of chaos, continually creating and destroying at a whim. They are not necessarily evil but they are capricious...

Even worse: the lattice of heaven shattered so even souls that make it to their gods' domains can only stay for a few hundred years or so. Eventually from dying too many times or from simple age, their divine afterlife bodies break up and their souls get kicked out into the great unknown anyway...

Yup, this cosmology with its petty jealous gods that demand fealty and essentially enslave mortals (whether or not their master is a benevolent despot or a cruel one) is one that I simply can't stand and will not use at the game table. It all follows logically from the premises of the setting...

1. Don't touch the ropes or anyone touching the ropes. 2. Find a different dungeon to explore; that's pretty freaky and there is no explanation that will make it less so. ;)

1. I love card and board games. There is nothing to this claim that board games represent the dumbing down of a hobby. Have you played any of the Warhammer board games? How about any of the wave of German board games that have come out over the last 15 years? These are complex and interesting...

You may make an OA only once per turn (but unlimited times per round). You also can't make OAs when dazed/stunned/dominated. It is very difficult to get threatening reach at all (let alone within 5 spaces) so the scenario you mentioned would be extremely rare. If a player really invested in a...

Yes, you add your constitution modifier as well as your charisma modifier. So 4+4=8. This is the built in "striker" feature of the class. It is similar to what sorcerers get. You are also automatically proficient with the blade you create but only as a weapon, not as an implement. To get your...

But you can trade out the level 11 encounter power from your paragon path for a rogue encounter power. Perfectly legal.

You are not going to like the official answer from Trevor Kidd over on the WotC forums then: "So I've got the word on the executioner assassin. While we have seen it and had a chance to play with the executioner thanks to the play-test article, it isn't officially done and baked until the the...

]It may have started that way but there are reams of data about the default setting now: books on the astral plane, the elemental chaos, the underdark, undead, demons, devils, the feywild, etc. Even in the crunch books (i.e. primal power) there are tons of asides about the dawn war and the war...