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I saw a custserve answer over on the wotc 4e forums, and it was (paraphrasing) that as long as you engage at least one of the challenged enemies you aren't penalized, but your challenge will end on an enemy you didn't engage. Custserve answers aren't official rulings, but they do tend to be a...

Yeah, 2-hit minions would break minions, plain and simple. If you want something like that, just use some L-3 or so regular monsters. As long as PCs deal very different amounts of damage based on role, requiring a set number of hits (higher than 1) is going to break the system. Minions are...

Actually, I'd say that's kind of a bad idea. Resistances aren't overpowered, for one simple reason: there are many, many different types of damage. From a DM/monster perspective, there are tons of options for damage types, both for regular and ongoing damage. It's a big deal as a player when...

One of many, MANY examples showing that the people who wrote Divine Power had no idea whatsoever how the avenger mechanic works. The ONLY time that power will ever function as written is when you're using a reach weapon. Which you would ONLY do to use that stance, because you don't get your...

It depends a lot on the players and their characters. I've run a group of 3 highly optimized characters through a number of the Scales of War adventures designed for their level (meaning skipping about every third adventure, since they advanced a lot more quickly). They rarely ran into trouble...

Not unless you get Heavy Blade Opportunity or something similar :)

More like -Avenger Daggermaster --1d4 bloodiron weapon + 3d8 or 5d8 1/enc, 18-20 crit -Avenger SoC --1d12 high crit radiant weapon, 18-20 crit A daggermaster with bloodiron will do more DPR than an SoC with a radiant weapon. +4 weapons and nothing else mean a daggermaster is doing 4 +...

Generally speaking (without getting into wonky builds like half-elf twin strike daggermaster avengers), rogues will do a bit more damage, but avengers will be more durable and versatile. Rogue damage goes down if your party doesn't have many melee characters. I've played both a bit and found...

I don't find SOC to be particularly cheesy. Power gamey, maybe, but not cheesey. You're still playing an avenger, focusing on avenger powers and avenger flavor. It just happens to be the one way (aside from half elf twin strike) avengers keep up. I did some maths, and an optimized SOC...

Good call on improved armor of faith. I'm firmly of the belief that getting hit for an extra 5 damage is never a good idea unless you have damage resist, though. 100% of (non-minion) monsters around my level have more HP than I do, and 100% of them do more than 5 damage on a hit. Our party...

I've been gone from my game for a while due to some incredibly busy RL stuff (bar exam, wedding, and honeymoon, to be exact). I find now that the party has made level 11 and divine power has come out. My DM is letting me rebuild my character to account for the various options available. I...

No, what he said is exactly right. You can only take one immediate action per round. And one opportunity action per combatant's turn.

Yeah, Pursuit gets the shaft. Retribution doesn't get much love, either... while overwhelming strike (which, to be fair, is probably the most universal at-will) has like a dozen. Kilpatds made a nice list over on the CharOp board, from the avenger perspective: Righteous Wrath: The Avenger's...

You can make a pretty effective balanced ranger, although he won't excel at either. He'll only be *gasp* on par with most other strikers. The main disadvantage you face with splitting things up is the heavy feat cost. You're going to have to double up on focus and expertise feats. If you...

A couple of key points: First, yes, the fighter gets an immediate interrupt melee basic attack if a creature he's marking attacks someone other than him or shifts. Note that this is an immediate action, and you only get one immediate action per round. So if the whole party is repeatedly...

Of course, for even better control, just pick up Mark of Storm and Polearm Momentum to use with a lightning glaive or other heavy blade polearm. Add in rushing cleats and on every single hit, you slide your enemy 2 and knock them prone. For OAs, that completely shuts down their move action...

What Mort_Q said. Delaying means you can't split your actions, and that when you do go, you can use your move/minor after whatever you readied with your standard. But when you ready an action, it's just a standard (which can, of course, be used to ready something that only requires a move or...

Nice analysis :) Practically speaking, though, I think things will be a bit different for pretty much any character. Is there any character out there that's actually going to make use of all attirbutes? In practice, having a -1 somewhere isn't going to hurt just about any character. What...

An OA is an interrupt as the enemy moves out of a threatened square, not to the entire move action. Otherwise, you wouldn't get to attack until they were 5 squares away, and that MBA wouldn't do you a whole lot of good :) From PHB 290: Opportunity Attack: Opportunity Action Interrupts...

I agree with Bob. Character growth is a big part of the fun of DnD for me. It's a gross oversimplification, but I'll just say that I like seeing those numbers getting bigger as you progress :) Also, as Bob said, keeping everything balanced would be massive task, since pretty much every single...