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A lot of that terrain is nice fluff but is really not that important in actually play. For example a group of monsters standing in a circle that gives out +2 to hit is a poor tactic against most parties. Apart from cliff and wallls terrain is rarely stronger than that. Even fighters have...

I appreciate your points. Most of what you are saying has reasonable sense to it, but I'm going to disagree. Punting the monster into the wizards zone with pushes and slides is a fun part of 4th ed. If the damage is end of turn there is little damage value in that tactic anymore. There goes...

Yes but you need some items and specific build to get it to work well. It is not that good at 1st level because of that. 75% of monsters that you hit won't fall asleep. I only tend to use it when I am getting good tactical value from the slow affect.

I'd argue that the blank slate battle field is much more common than a battle field with a choke point. Sure regularly the game is played in a confined space but 1) more often than not the terrain that is there can be easily avoided by one side or the other. The inititive roll can do it half...

Hey when are these forums going to get a like button or voting up and down like StackOverflow ???

Minions have heaps of problems anyway. A wizard can have area burst 2 damage effects from level 1 - at will and ally friendly. I have a Valorous Bard in the party. Adding minions makes the encounter easier, they are just nice pouches of temporary hit points. Virtually every class has a way to...

Flaming Sphere is going to do very little damage now. It just makes opponents move. The ongoing attack is less effective than most at will powers. It is now a very situational power and complete crap. Stinking Cloud has lost a stack of damage and the ability to block line of sight. It is now...

So are they going to release it in the official errata?

Errata Since when I can't find it only the official errata page Dungeons & Dragons Roleplaying Game Official Home Page - Article (Official D&D Updates Archive) Hero of Faith has been errated but that wasn't what I asked. That does make me want to go with interpretation b) above though...

Any errata yet? I find it hard to believe they still haven't errated Disciple of Divine Wrath. For clarity if nothing else. The Disciple of Divine Wrath (DoDW) feat says until the end of your next turn. But the Oath of Enmity(OoE) power has a condition whereby you regain the use of the power...

Yes but what does it get wrong. Have you every had to work out if a Paladins Divine Challenge does extra damage to a swarm? In play the GM just called it but later the players never agreed how it should have been played. WotC would have been better off defining another attack type for this...

Rogue The melee rogue is more fun to play because you need to work to get the combat advantage you need. Much more tactical. You do need a defender to help you flank, the more characters that want to get into melee the better. If the rest of the party is keen on slow and immobilise powers...

I agree with your interpretation and the need for errata. I have a new player who wants to play a monk. For now I think I need to house rule that "monk unarmed strike" properties and feats stack with implement properties and feats and that the monk can benefit from both at once with implement...

I disagree. The Unarmed Mastery feat applies to melee attacks with your monk unarmed strike. Almost all monk powers are melee attacks. Likewise they are implement powers not weapon powers. But unarmed strike is an implement. The PHB3 page 64 rules confirm this by saying all your monk attacks can...

But this is were I get confused. Monks are not normal. I'm looking at PHB3 p62-64. The rules clearly state Unarmed Strike is a weapon in the unarmed weapon group, it is not a power as you might think. They also state that all the monk weapons are implements for monks. All the monk attack powers...

I'm struggling to work out the correct way to play the monk, as the monk unarmed strike is a weapon not a power. It seems to get used as a melee basic attack but also with an implement in all monk attack powers. I'd like to hear how other people interpret these rules. In the Monk paragon path...

Yes it is a big benefit to what was already a strong race. But the speed penalty for a dwarf warden is still a drawback. Every now and then it costs an action. Human defender will have better defenses. Dragon born fighter still was their minor action breath weapon for marking. :)