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As a Warden, I would just go with a crossbow for a ranged weapon. With strength as your primary ability, there is little need to bother with a thrown weapon -- you can just charge anyone who is that close to you. Since sheathing your weapon and putting away your shield eat up precious actions...

Am I the only one who thinks we should say, "OMG! They killed the Illumians!" and then wait for somebody else to make the proper South Park reply?

Since these updates usually occur on a Tuesday, we are left with either the 5th (tomorrow) or the 12th (next week) as the only likely times for an "early October" update -- the 19th is definitely NOT "early October". The bad news is that we have not heard even a hint of a Character Builder...

First off, be thankful that you have a mature and responsible group -- it seems that generally your players let you know in advance of any upcoming absences, so you can plan around them to some extent. I wish my group did that more. Okay, so let's say it is the beginning of a session, you did...

An update -- Veteran's Armor can be any type of armor, so we are good for levels 1-3. Boots of Striding are good for anyone at level 9. That means that our remaining heroic tier gaps are levels 4, 5, and 10. With two of the level gaps still being consecutive, the most restrictive rule that...

No, there are not more than enough items if you want to give out items of the exact levels indicated in the DMG for characters above first level. To start with, we can disregard the potions -- they are far less valuable than permanent magic items of the same level. Basic magic items cover...

Or he could take the Arcane Initiate (Wizard multiclass) or Initiate of the Faith (Cleric multiclass) feat to accomplish the result -- then he would actually be considered a Cleric or a Wizard for many purposes. I would think that any character willing to spend two feats to learn how to cast...

A potential problem with revising the rules for starting characters above first level is that we do not have enough common items yet if any of the three initial items have to be common items. I would probably go with letting the level +1, level, and level -1 items all be uncommon until the new...

In Heroes of the Fallen Lands, the Cleric (Warpriest) and Wizard (Mage) still have at-will powers. In the next book, at least two of the other classes (Druid and Warlock) are also virtually certain to have at-will powers. That would be enough classes for a Half-Elf to get his Dilettante Power...

By the way -- for any annual subscriber feeling ripped off by the lack of a Character Builder update this month, the savings over a monthly subscriber are just short of the monthly rate for five months. If September is the only month this year that is not worth the money, we are still ahead of...

But with the availability of Heroic Effort as a human racial power alternative to the third at-will power, it is not absolutely necessary to make a third at-will available to the Essentials assassin -- and in fact they do not have standard at-will attack powers. So, like the human Knight...

If they are able to get back on track, then your lesser value September DDI access will be compensated for by extremely valuable October access -- I would count that as a wash. If they make a habit of the delays, then obviously they will start losing DDI customers fast.

I recall developing a character concept where race was both the first and the last choice I made. I originally decided that the character would be a human raised by dragonborn. I followed it up with some fairly optimized choices for a hybrid striker. While trying to come up with some baggage...

No, you use your Second Wind as a minor action, thereby expending both powers (Dwarven Resilience and Second Wind). See the Ranger utility power Invigorating Stride for a similar power that lets you use your Second Wind with a move action (quite handy for non-Dwarf Rangers).

The answer seems to lie in the list of common names for each race. "Merric" just happens to be in the male halfling list. I am surprised that my name hasn's found its way into an adventure yet, since it is in the female human list.

Actually, Heavy Blade Expertise (and all of the other expertise feats) give you additional benefits with the selected weapon groups beyond the bonus to hit -- that is why you would want to take them instead of Versatile Expertise. Master at Arms is an expertise feat for all weapons -- so if you...

The expertise feats were called a "feat tax" because they basically set up a single feat that everyone would eventually feel compelled to take. (I would counter that these feats are not necessarily the first feat that every character takes -- there is still some thought to be given as to when...

Given that the list expands every month, I think the only hope would be some sort of application that extracts that information from the Compendium. A manually compiled list would quickly become obsolete.

That's one extra point of healing for everyone within range of the banner whenever anyone within range of the banner spends a healing surge. If you have a party of five adventurers, every one of them uses his second wind, and every one of them is within range of the banner, that is five extra...

I have found the battle standard of healing to be a very useful item. Grab one before WotC gets around to nerfing it!