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I did order it from Amazon, though not through the U.S. website (ie. not the .com one).

Is the release date for the adventure still supposed to be the 20th? I ask because I just received an e-mail saying my copy is on the way and should arrive on the 9th. When were stores supposed to receive their copies?

In addition to the eight in the preview there are at least five others in blogs (Iron Vanguard, Battle Captain, Battle Archer, Spellstorm Mage, and Astral Weapon) that are from the PHB (and one, wildfire genasi, which is probably in the FR PHB). So we've already seen 13 from PHB, and I seriously...

Considering we've already seen the Iron Vanguard, Battle Captain, Battle Archer, Astral Weapon, and a few others in blogs I think its apparent that there's more than 12 paragon paths. I seem to remember hearing 24 at some point. And if they decided to limit each path to only one class then it's...

I highly doubt damage would be retroactively added to attacks. Rather it makes the decision to use the action point first and gain the benefit for two standard attacks, or wait to see if you can drop the monster in one attack and then use an action point if it's still on its feet.

The bonuses I can recall seeing so far are feat, item, power, and racial. Also what appears to be a generic bonus. Any there any other confirmed ones?

Based on the pre-gens stats it appears that the point-buy values have changed slightly. If a 16 costs 9 points and a 18 costs 15 then all but the human character work stat-wise. The guy who made the pre-gens said the math was off on one (or more). If so it's possible to the human is only +2 to...

Unless the DM specifically decides a war devil has a magic trident then it's just a trident. It's a more elegant, though decidely non-simulationist, way of avoiding the glut of minor to average magic items that any 3.5 NPC needed to be effective. Now instead of picking up a myriad of minor stat...

I'm curious at the confusion over the meaning of threshold. Straight from the dictionary, Threshold: The point that must be exceeded to begin producing a given effect or result or to elicit a response. Therefore a +2 weapon is needed to overcome a +1 threshold, which is subtracting from the...

No, the threshold basically explains why you can't just give all your war devils +1 tridents for an extra +1 to hit and damage. Since they are 22nd level monsters they need at least a +5 trident to gain any benefit to their attacks due to a +4 threshold. You don't need to dump a bunch of minor...

I agree. It seems like it should be +2 to hit and damage rolls from wielding +3 greatswords, due to the +1 threshold. It is also possible that the ogre usually uses a greatclub and the greatsword has +1 proficiency and average damage when compared to the greatclub. If that is the case a +3...

The new dungeon article "Cruel Shadows" has some interesting crunch interspersed throughout it and describes some monsters that will almost certainly be in the MM. The elite template for a soldier is described as +50% HP, +2 AC and Defenses. The "insubstantial" condition after a shadar-kai's...

I'm of the opinion that the developers won't try to tie power sources directly to a single plane. For example the Primal power source has features that seem to derive from both The Elemental Chaos and The Feywild, looking at the revised DDM cards. Linking a source to a single plane would limit...

From my understanding a successful healing check will stabilize a character at their current negative hitpoint total. It also allows them to use a second wind if they still have it, putting them at 1/4 HP in most cases. If they can't use a second wind for some reason (having already used it...

I think the throwing hammer is +5 attack as melee and +2 ranged since it seems to a Proficient 2 weapon.

Another possibility is using the followup mechanic we've seen so you can only attempt the second attack if the first one hit. Adding a slight penalty to both rolls and/or only applying a raw ability modifier to damage only once would go a long way to balancing it with other at-will abilities.

The "natural" type means that a creature is originally from the natural world ie Prime Material Plane. Creatures originally from a different plane are as follows: Fey= Feywild Shadow= Shadowfell The Far Realm= Aberrant Elemental Chaos= Elemental The Astral Sea= Immortal ? This refers to the...

You still need the base modifier to determine additional damage and such, but for the most part the modified ability bonus is sufficient. By the way is there an official term for the base and modified modifier? I've been using ability bonus and ability modifier respectively but it seems like...

A warlock and wizard's at-will are mostly limited to 10 squares, with magic missile at 20, while a longbow is effective up to 40. In a open battlefield a longbow would provide a means of dealing an extra round (maybe two) of damage before the enemy closes in. Also an paragon path similar to the...

The archer gets a +1 to ability modifiers because it's 2nd level.