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Yep. I like this approach because it allows things like having a tactically interesting battle in a realistically sized room. You're in a small room, so everyone has to make do with less space. So the squares are smaller.

You may use a spear as an implement. Your implement powers thus involve attacking with a spear. The ranges of Melee Weapon in Character Builder look like a bug/typo to me, not an intentional stealth-errata.

A mesh grating with holes in grants superior cover. So does a magical wall of force Does it grant concealment? Hell no, I can see right through it. A paper wall grants superior concealment. So does a load of smoke. Does it grant cover? Hell no, I can shoot right through it...

Drinking demonic blood should boost you. At a cost. In my campaign I made the boost: free healing (but it has to be fresh off the bone). And the downside? The bad-guys get bonuses to hit you with their domination powers, and FORCE you to do what they want. Most of the characters weren't so...

Unfortunately, doesn't stack with Expertise at present, so it's probably a question of houserule-age until they errata it. Personally, I would have liked a bit of reprinting of feats. Sure, it's not NEEDED, but it'd be nice to be able to go "hmm, tiefling, well, let's pull out the book on them"...

If you've got under 10% armour coverage, you're hiding 10% of your body. So they don't aim for that bit. 10% armour coverage doesn't change your AC much. If you've got 10% missing armour, you're revealing 10% of your body. So they do aim for that bit. 10% missing armour can change your AC...

Yeah. But you just won't whack 'em in the head. You'll whack 'em somewhere unarmoured, like the arms or torso. If the vast majority of your body is unarmoured, you'll get a 0.2 (round down) bonus to AC, because they just won't aim for that part. On a called shot for the head, give a reasonable...

I second the solo suggestion. Make him a solo of reasonably high level, and then add in terrain dangers/other enemies/whatever. Things that the PCs can work together to avoid, but that the big bad will have a tougher time with. What size is the big bad btw? Terrain features can make life...

I can't see them existing any more. If they had to be included (which is doubtful, because... yeah, they're not THAT popular) I'd expect nature's last ditch attempt to wipe out those that are defiling it. And probably wouldn't be at all discriminate in who they kill "The only good humanoid is...

In order to get from one bit of feywild to another, you have to travel through athas proper. So, no, it isn't a sidebar world. You could call it 10,000 sidebar worlds, but it's certainly not A sidebar world. And each bit of feywild is quite small, so I doubt you'd be able to live there...

Streetwise is a definite. I'm thinking of allowing it to detect scenery powers in urban fights. Possibly also for monster knowledge checks. Even with those though, it'd still be pretty rare in my main campaign. It'd just mean that in the urban campaign (if that goes to 4e) it was worthwhile...

Arcana gets to detect things a lot more often in the modules etc. I've seen. In game I tend to give both religion and nature detection abilities (for instance, nature can detect primally empowered items. Arcana can't; they're not arcane) I also allow history for monster-knowledge checks for...

:-) I had a very similar image myself, but didn't want to muddy the metaphor :p

I feel like a trained religion skill should also be able to detect the cacodemon in spirit form. But then, I generally feel religion doesn't get enough love compared to arcana.

It's like a cell phone, in a horror movie, set in 1965. Of course you don't have a signal, less than 0.1% of places on the planet HAVE a signal.

Or, more in keeping with how Interrupts ALWAYS work: you see that the enemy is about to bloody your ally, and you rush over and hit them, in order to stop them doing so. Opportunity attacks: triggered by enemy moving, but occur before the enemy moves OMG TIME-BENDING FIGHTERS. Or, you know...

If the warlords attack kills the dragon, no-one gets hurt by it's breath. EDIT: misread, thought it stated "before the triggering attack" not "before the attack". Still, if it wasn't meant to be able to stop the attack, it would be a reaction. The free action is made the moment it's triggered...

No, Winning Races: Gnomes is an oxymoron. Wilden can be reasonably speedy at times.

Dangit. Gloaming dancer makes my submissions look a bit unlikely; a class acts assassin one, and one with a dance theme. But, hell, it's got some good stuff still, so I'm happy enough :-) First thought on the wilden one: Reaching for the canopy<unusual reach. But the action point power seems...

Divine power isn't really you doing magic. It's the gods working through you. As a warlock you haven't gained magic yourself, you have borrowed that of another. As a primal class: you're gaining power from the primal spirits of nature. (this is a questionable one. But then, Barbarians aren't...