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Looking at the sheer number of abilities is silly. A bunch of really weak powers is not neceassarily as good as a single really excellent power. The Halfling's "Once per encounter the enemy misses on a crit" power is about equal in value to the elf's "Reroll when I missed on my daily" power...

They showed off the opening spread of the Rogue class writeup in Dragon magazine back in February. That's one of the most complete bits of class info that we've had thus far, though it doesn't include many powers.

The Hexblade's Curse as a marking ability makes a lot of sense. Hexblade as Defender is really straightforward, especially as it seems like only or primarily Defenders use marks. Hexblade might be Shadow, but it could also be Arcane or it might have been absorbed into the Swordmage or...

Mike Mearls has said that they removed the phrase "sneak attack" from monsters that do additional damage on combat advantage. People assumed you had to follow the rules for the rogue ability, which wasn't always true (oni/ogre mages "sneak attack" with greatswords, for example). So it's...

I saw a suggestion elsewhere (and really like it) that a good two man party would be a paladin and a warlock. The paladin is a Defender with a dash of Leader (buffs and heals and such), while the Warlock is a Striker with some Controller type abilities (negative statuses, forced movement...

Except for the fact that PCs can retrain their at-wills to any other class appropriate at wills any time they level up. I can't find the reference now, but read a developer flat out state that you only had your two starting at-will powers, but they increased in power as you leveled up and you...

Actually, you seem to have missed the most interesting part of Mearls's comment: charm abilities have different effects in combat and out of combat. So the succubus can potentially control the king of the kingdom without spending her every action dominating him (as dominating is a standard...

There are plenty of other possible negative consequences for failing the skill challenge. The Pcs are captured, perhaps. Or maybe the failure means the devils destroy the local village or something else the PCs care about. Or failure means a big battle with a demon boss instead of safe escape.

Actually, you can charge over difficult terrain now. It just costs extra movement. (I'm not seeing the problem here, either.)

amazon claims I'll get my books on the 10th of June. As I'll be in the middle of a three month leave off of work, I'd imagine the first game would fall between the 11th and the 13th. sunday is our regular D&D night, in which we alternate campaigns. One of those campaigns will convert o D&D...

It's pretty unclear from the post who is a PC and who is an NPC, but I think that Shin Rao is an NPC. In which case, his presence doesn't mean "we are playtesting the monk class" so much as "we are playtesting a monster that is a human monk". Which is totally different, and less exciting.

In the thread with the Dragonborn info, it is determined that the Dragonborn can choose between Strength, Constitution and something. My guess : Dexterity seems like the safe bet: your breath weapon is based off one of your physical stats. Charisma wouldn't be too outlandish: Dragonborn...

I have no idea why you would think that a race with an Intelligence bonus would be a sub-par race for a wizard. (A case can be made that the Halfling is subpar for paladin due to small size, but the Charisma bonus and better defenses make 4th ed Halflings a pretty good choice for paladin.)

You think that's bad? You should have seen my GM when he said "I assume a 24 hits your AC?" and I said "Nope." Halfling paladin adjacent to two larger foes using Shielding Smite to guard himself = AC 25.

Witch is a really broad concept, which could easily fit into one of those classes or into the Druid class or other ones yet unseen. The Wicked Witch of the West is not a Wiccan priestess. I'd talk with the player who said they wanted to play a witch to see which aspects appealed to them about...

In our playtest (the Burning Plague adventure, I think), my paladin never ran out. But we never hit the climactic final encounter, and the rest of the party was doing pretty well the whole time. I and the dwarf fighter spent more Surges than the rest of the party combined, though. My big...

The problem here doesn't seem to be in the marking rules, but in that your notation system is losing important information. Here's a way to record marks that is easier than all the other suggestions thus far in the thread: When you have three hobgoblins A, B and C that can mark, write "Marked...