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I am fairly positive that if PHB3 will feature psionics (and don't forget the Monk's power source), it will also have thri-kreen and half-giants, for better or for worse.

I am very impressed by the way they handled the Wizard in 4E and love my Wizard character. I am still very surprised that many people think he is underpowered or boring. And yes, they should balance the orb build. My other favorites are the sorcerer, fighter, shaman, barbarian, and avenger I...

Best Books: The campaign setting itself, Sharn: City of Towers, City of Stormreach, Player's Guide to Eberron, Forge of War (if you are insterested in a campaign during the war) Not recommended: Explorer's Handbook, Secrets of Xendrik, Races of Eberron (none of these is "bad", but they are kinda...

So it is 90% likely that the setting is Dragonlance, huh? Count me amongst the disappointed. I was really hoping it would be Planescape or Dark Sun. Of course, an entirely new setting would've been even better. I will stick to my Eberron, I guess.

The Fey-Incanter Vestige forces the target to roll saving throws twice and take the lower result (this means approximately 30% chance to save without other modifiers). Combine this with creatures that petrifiy or kill on two failed saving throws and you will have a truly evil encounter.

When I started DM-ing 4E I was very tempted to apply such houserule to all encounter healing powers, just to avoid "we rest X minutes, so we can use inspiring word Y times" situations (or a similar rule allowing you to use only the inspiring words that remained after the encounter). In the end...

Certain justice (Champion of Order 11) is at the top of my list. Almost guaranteed daze + weaken for potentially infinite time is a tad too much. Oh, and Guileful Switch is second.

Can you provide a brief description of the contents of the Player's Guide, please? Like how many new (for 4E) races, mechanics, etc. Another One: How are dragonmarks and aberrant dragonmarks handled?

In my opinion every leader would work well (even if a little slowly) when multiplied by 5. I also think that almost any other group (such as 5 rangers) would have an achilles heel. But that was discussed a while ago in another thread.

Quite simply put, if you like hitting often and dealing tons of damage to a single foe, choose rogue. If you like attacking and hindering multiple opponents at once and using spell rituals to solve problems outside of battle, choose wizard. I am playing a wizard in one campaign and it's very...

Thanks, haven't noticed it until now.

Frankly, I don't like any of them :( Sorry.

Monk at-wills are "packages" of attack and movement actions, called Full Disciplines (some Encounter Powers also are Full Disciplines). You can combine only the attack or movement with another action, but you can't combine two Full Disciplines without spending an AP. Monk at-will attacks offer...

I am really hoping that you will find time to put together "Book of NPCs 2". The first one was an invaluable resource.

True.

On a side note, I never build my PCs as tough as possible. For me, it is great fun to play an unoptimized character, so i often take suboptimal feats, attributes, etc. I especially like to play a character with at least 1 attribute below 8 (we usually roll dice at character creation, so this...

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Very interesting, thanks a lot! Here's some some XP :)

I have no problem with the trolls' vulnerabilities to fire and acid, even if the party has consistent means to attack them with such every round. 1. The party will not hit every troll every round, so trolls' special abilities will come into play. 2. If the party wishes to exploit the...

Of course you are right, but this is an extreme example - I believe these figures are unrealistic, especially the ranger's chance to hit is too low. On average, if both characters have optimized their attacks and are fighting against a foe on their level with Ref lower by 2 than his AC, the...