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One idea for a house rule that addresses this topic would be to say that powers with the Weapon keyword are not obvious arcane spells unless accompanied by arcane defiling. Swordmages and to a lesser extend bards and artificers would benefit from being able to use more of their powers openly...

No, they definitely won't do that. Giving humans anything but a bonus of +2 to a single stat of their choice would introduce incompatibility between Essentials humans and PHB humans, and such an increase in power is not warranted by the slight increase in flexibility being granted to the other...

Another possibility is that Wizards planned this product and then canceled it -- thus they had to find another use for the artwork. Maybe this book was supposed to be the transition from the Essentials books to the full 4E game?

That depends on whether they are separate classes or different builds of the same class. If they are separate classes, then rules for hybriding or multiclassing are needed. If they are just builds of the same class, then either build can select powers meant for the other build, with some as...

The WIS 14 is really the deciding point here -- too low to make an effective Invoker, as wisdom is the attack stat for that class. Unfortunately, she doesn't have the stats to make her any good at any of the controller classes. Multiclassing into monk (Centered Breath) is probably the closest...

Not true. You still have access to full use of Adept Power as early as 10th level. You can use your retraining at level 10 to gain both Acolyte Power and Adept Power at that level, or you could defer one of them until 11th level. Either way, you qualify for paragon multiclassing. Why you...

Don't bother with a longspear. My ranger|monk started out with one and found it to be of little use even with Fading Strike (a dexterity based at-will power that can be used with melee or ranged attacks). Since there are no monk powers with a range of Melee Weapon (check the PHB3 book -- the...

No -- none at all.

Starting ability scores do not include racial adjustments. I made the same mistake on another message board.

In our nearly 2 years of playing 4E, I have noticed that we have had many battles where we feared that we were in for a TPK but it didn't happen. I don't know whether we have a really sneaky but merciful DM or we just feared that we were in worse shape than we actually were in.

Of course the Mule is a game breaker -- He could dominate others at will! He singlehandedly derailed the whole Seldon plan! Oh -- You were talking about a horse/donkey hybrid? Never mind....

No, at least for a hybrid shaman. A hybrid shaman has to that the "Spirit's Power" hybrid talent option to get that. A pure shaman should have that power if he takes the right companion spirit option.

What level did you start playing this character at? He would have had an AC of 14 at 1st level -- and my 1st level ranger|monk is having a tough enough time with an AC of 17.

You know, that does suggest an interesting idea for an epic destiny -- one whose 21st level feature is gaining hybrid talent for a 3rd time. I guess the rest of its features would be a lot like the Eternal Seeker. But this is not the House Rules forum. so I won't explore it further here....

Divine Power has a first level ritual (Religion based) for creating holy water. If you don't have that book, you can find holy water and the ritual for creating it in the Compendium.

I was rather surprised when I looked this one up to find that this power resets after a short or extended rest and not after the end of the encounter as most such powers do. Then there would be no issue -- all powers with that duration would expire when anyone takes a short rest because of the...

Or, as the others pointed out, all from the Compendium or Character Builder. PHB3 actually has all of these powers as "Melee Touch". Still -- if you are creating a hybrid monk, two of those powers are available to you from the start, and at any given level you would be able to ensure that you...

There is an interesting discrepancy here between the PHB3 book on the one hand and the Compendium and Character Builder on the other. The book may only have four powers with a range of Melee Weapon, but the other two sources have a lot more. Given the potential for abusing such powers that I...

Polearms are a type of weapon that a monk should seriously consider gaining proficiency with. All those powers with ranges of "Melee Weapon" gain greater ranges when used with Reach weapons.

That is only for those people who are on-line most of the time. For security reasons, I generally keep my computer off-line when I am not actively checking e-mail or web browsing. Thus, I am only given the option to update the Character Builder when I actively check for it -- most of the time...