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Rogues can no longer use Crossbows, Repeating Crossbows, or Superior Crossbows with Sneak Attack, basically killing the sniper rogue build of MP2. Be careful with artificers, the new item rules weirded some of their features and powers (ie, some are really strong now, others are entirely...

Eerm, isn't the statement that "you could expect any humanoid to contract lycanthropy" incorrect in 4e? IE, Lycanthropes are races, and being bit by one will not ever actually turn anybody? They carry other diseases, but none of them actually turn you.

This has always been the policy, it's just come up very rarely before now. I think the best known example is the reliable keyword: after PHB it received one update via the errata process, but then it received another eupdate in PHBII. The end result is, the keyword is defined in one way in the...

Let's not forget, Paizo doesn't have to buy D&D from Hasbro to make D&D 5e, they just have to license it. If Hasbro decides publishing D&D pen and paper products just isn't for them, it seems very likely to me that they'd cut a deal with someone else. Hasbro would make an easy buck, and would...

Oddly, I hate the exact same thought, but I felt the several leaping puns required just made too terrible to mention.

That was my point. A warlord in a party with a slayer or thief is a leader that deals striker damage, which is why I'm concerned this article will just be a way to nerf that ability. Melee Training isn't relevant because every 4eE striker already has a good MBA. Melee Training would have...

? Melee training factors into it... how?

I'm concerned the article will amount to nerfs to the warlord so they play right with 4eE. That's going to annoy me.

Ignore Fire Resist is nothing new: it's present in a variety of PPs and EDs. Fire-Maker characters have always been quite potent: I had a Reventant(Tiefling) Con-Inefernalock|Battlemind McWizard that tossed Burning Mark of Hell and Consuming the Weak on top of all the normal shenanigans. Was...

Agreed: this interpretation fixes most of the problems with the item, and seems like the best fit for how this item was intended. But yes, by RAW right now, this is an off-hand weapon, a light shield (with an extra +1 to AC, so basically a heavy shield) AND a free hand, making it the only...

No, poisons are a daily resource, limited by dose: If the Executioner prepares 3 vials of poison for the day and puts one in his scorpion, he only has two left. Again, there is zero mechanical advantage for doing this. It doesn't even help the executioner avoid "wasting" the poison, because...

There are RAW justifications either way, so it's unclear. RAI, it's unlikely this combo was ever considered by the developers of the Executioner. So it's up to the DM. Q. Is it imbalanced? A. No. There's little to no mechanical benefit to doing this, as opposed to applying the poison...

Well, your encounter power is non-functional, since you can't use it on the same turn as your striker damage feature, and the striker damage feature is always a better option. So there's that. Out of the box, your at-will damage is going to be very high, escpecially with, say, a Revenant...

This is incorrect. Rules changes that are published in a book are not added to the free Rules Updates section of the WotC website: this means that the many changes made to the rules in the new Rules Compendium are not found in that document, and never will be. This is not a new policy: for...