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If that's the case, then why the retro styling? It seems to me that the 1970s look would hurt the Red Box in this market, not help. I think the only market the retro aesthetic helps with is lapsed D&D players.

Exactly. There are four possibilities: Hit with non-invig power = gain Con mod THP Miss with non-invig power = gain nothing Hit with invig power = gain 2x Con mod THP Miss with invig power = gain Con mod THP I play a level 3 warforged battlerager with 18 Str/18 Con. They're a lot of fun. They...

I dislike what I've seen of Essentials so far. I'll allow them in games I run, of course, but I have no interest in them myself.

Yeah, exactly, and I don't think it will be unusually attractive to new players, either. That's why I'm concerned that Essentials will prove to be a bad business strategy. If so, I hope it ultimately doesn't do too much harm to 4E.

I get the impression that as much as WotC reps talk about Essentials being for beginners/new players, it's actually intended for lapsed players. Hence the retro aesthetic of the boxes, and more importantly, the retro aesthetic of the mechanics. The more Essentials preview content I read, the...

This is correct. I play a Rogue|Warlock hybrid with an Assassin multiclass and I'm looking at some of the power-swap feats. If you make a hybrid in the Character Builder, it won't let you swap a power via a power-swap feat until you already have 3 powers of a given type. This doesn't stop you...

Post, please! I'd love to have them as a reference.

Thanks for keeping this up to date. It's really handy!

Ah! Retrains! Of course.

Fleeting Ghost arguably allows a Rogue|Warlock hybrid with Shadow Walk (via Hybrid Talent) to do this at will at level 2. It isn't clear-cut, so it's the DM's call as to whether this works; my DM allowed it, and I'm playing one. The reasoning is that Fleeting Ghost explicitly grants you a...

No, you lose the hidden status immediately, but you retain its benefits (e.g. combat advantage) until the end of the action in which you lost the hidden status. That's why Shadow Stride (Rogue utility 10) exists.

Yeah, I know. I addressed that in point (1). True. That's a third way that he could move out of his superior cover and still attack with the hidden status on his turn.

How does he make a ranged sneak attack from his location if he doesn't have line of sight to any enemies? The only ways I can think of are: (1) He does have LoS, but the corners are such that he has retained his superior cover for the whole round since he made his Stealth check, so he can...

I'm actually playing a level 2 warforged Fighter in a tabletop game at the moment. I don't put out quite as much damage as our striker (a Sorcerer), but I'm not very far behind at all. My Fighter is a battlerager with 18 Str an 18 Con (easy to get at level 1 as a warforged), so when I do Brash...

Lots of nifty ideas in this thread. Here are my contributions: Iron Heroes: Long after the Lovecraftian apocalypse, democracy and monarchy arise anew. 4E: Mercenaries uncover coup within the criminal syndicate that hired them.

I use real place names as my basis as well, but I generally adapt them somehow. For example, in my current PbP Iron Heroes game, I created three major nations. One was based loosely on historical Byzantium. I broke Byzantium down into syllables, tweaked them, and named my nation Karantia.

I'm actually playing a hybrid Rogue|Warlock that I built for combat mobility and mobile stealth before the Assassin class came out. The idea was to use Fleeting Ghost and Shadow Walk together. I'm now going to multiclass that character into Assassin, using the power swap feats to gain Gloom...

I'm not sure I'd call knowing that the target is somewhere within a 5x5' square "pinpointing," but that's why the attack penalty vs invisible targets is there.

I'm actually playing a Rogue|Warlock hybrid with a teleportation fetish right now. Mine's a tiefling, so he has an eladrin inferority complex, but if I was building Nightcrawler I think I'd actually make him a shadar-kai rather than an eladrin. The racial teleport power is shorter range, but you...

I bought PHB1/DMG1/MM1 as a boxed set. I've also got Arcane Power and DMG2. Most importantly, though, I have a D&DI subscription. Now, I only buy books like DMG2 that contain a lot of text that isn't in the Compendium. Pretty much everything in the *Power supplements shows up in the Compendium...