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I statted out a Ranger/Wizard themed around being a samurai last night, and it seems to work pretty well. I used Human, though, for the extra feat and the relevant stat. For Half-elf, stats-wise, you are essentially losing the 2 points in CHA, but you could go with: STR 16 CON 12 DEX 13 INT 16...

Your entire complaint here is "I want to call my character a rogue, but play like a fighter" or "I want to call my character a wizard, but play like a rogue" or whatever. It has nothing to do with the flexibility of the system and everything to do with you defining your character by the name of...

Well, the idea is that the DM would actually require the use of the secondary skill checks to make sense in context, and thus would keep the number of them about equal to the number of primary checks. As long as they are kept about equal, the chances of success remain reasonable. I like...

This is probably correct, but I would also argue that the spellbook is a very important and controller-y class feature that is missed when you multiclass into wizard. Makes sense to me if the feature that controllers share is an ability to adapt their toolset to likely environment they are...

The RAW seems to indicate that as long as you have cover or concealment from someone (or they are distracted), you can attempt to do things without that person noticing. Of course house rules and judgment are always applicable, but I don't really see why you shouldn't be able to get a roll to...

What is the problem, exactly? That you have to spend 4 feats? That you lose your paragon path? That you don't get enough of the class features from the second class? I don't understand what is wrong, since the system lets you become literally 1/2 class A and 1/2 class B with all your abilities...

I know I'm late to the party on this, but I had to respond to this statement. You really didn't read the Wizard closely at all. It's true that the powers try a little too hard to spread themselves across elements (when it might have been better to just let the player choose the element), but the...

The rules intentionally leave a lot of leeway for free-form ideas to make sense, but as a result the things which are defined are defined fairly rigidly, so there are fewer opportunities for this. The DMG actually explains that whatever a player wants to do that isn't in the rules should be...

While Stalker0's system is interesting and has some cool aspects, I wanted to present a system that fixes the mathematical problems with the 4e system, but doesn't add anything in particular. Essentially just some revised guidelines. So here goes: ___________________________ The basic concept...

Personally, I think the biggest problem is actually the general lack of penalty for low stats. The main reason previous systems designed to remove randomness from character creation had trouble (and have been tweaked to the point of starting with 5 10s and an 8, then adding more) is because the...

After extensive fooling around with a program along the lines of what I discussed earlier, I'm ready to conclude that a) the system's most fundamental flaw is the increasing number of failures needed based on complexity - it would make much more sense as a flat 4 - and b) you have to go pretty...

As written it looks like you have to be within melee range for your weapon (so 2 squares if you have a reach weapon).

I actually just assumed it was Kenny Baker

Judging by a lot of the posts complaining about failures of the default systems, I'm not too surprised. I think a lot of it is just adjusting people's 3.x expectations to the new paradigm, and the lack of content that clearly lays out the classes people are used to.

Depends on the power. Some say "each enemy in burst" (e.g. Fire Shroud lvl 3 wizard attack), others say "Each creature in burst" (e.g. shock sphere lvl 3 wizard attack). Creature = you, an ally or an enemy. Enemy = only an enemy Ally = only an ally (not you) Also, there's an epic tier wizard...

On topic, but shifting gears, I want to actually ask Stalker0 about some of the things Mr. Baker says that I find interesting, but am somewhat too impatient to do the math or simulation of myself: Let's assume that the players are level 2, as he says. Let's assume that in general they have 3...

Yeah, I think Vempyre has it right. It would be better if this system worked right out of the box with their basic guidelines (and honestly, if you just grab the DCs from the table, without consulting the asterisk, I think it probably does), but ultimately, if the main problem is some ratios of...

My take on the whole thing is that the system is great as a framework, but the guideline DCs that make sense for characters doing something out of the ordinary in combat are not appropriate to determining DCs for a skill challenge. I think each of the DMs that have been running skill challenges...

It is more restrictive than 3e in the sense that you can't take more than 2 classes, but there's also no XP penalty, no prestige classes to worry about, and you get the stuff from your new class at full power. So instead of being a fighter 10 / Wizard 10 and being really weak at what they both...

I actually submitted this to wizards' customer service, and they say there will be errata about it "but for now, it is up your DM to decide what DC to use for skill challenges".