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Leader: Ardent - While not the best at actual single output healing numbers. They get far more actual healing power uses than any other leader class while being able to really impact monster effectiveness. A clear winner in this department if you ask me. Defender: Fighter - High damage and...

Some predictions/hopes for 5e: Streamlined Feats - Rather than print hundreds/thousands of feats that mildly differ from one another...instead print a handful of feats that are generally friendly to various classes. Example: Choose an damage type <untyped, fire, force, etc> and add +1 damage...

I'd say that the sweet spot in 4e is levels 5 through 21. Epic is problematic because characters get too powerful with condition lock downs. Nearly every round of combat involves dazed, or stunned, or dominated. Playing epic with the rules as written simply makes for a boring drawn out...

I love this side of dominate as it is a rare condition that the PC's can have a blast with. I will let/encourage my player characters use the action to let the monster run around provoking OA, or throw away their weapons, etc. As a DM, I intentionally avoid using these tactics against the...

We only require that the initial output of money is spent on a quiver of arrows. From there the bookeeping becomes unnecessary. The idea is that a good DM will resupply ones normal arrows via treasure drops from monsters rather than allow the PC to become almost worthless and suck the fun out...

Perfect...I didn't realize there were different base armors aside from the +4 and +6 specializations in PHB. Odd considering I own Adventurer's Vault 1&2. Thanks for the clarification!

During our session yesterday, we ended manually calculating the AC or our Chainmail wearing Half-Elf Mantle of Impulsiveness Ardent only to find that we kept getting a lower result from what the character builder states. The same was true with my Chainmail wearing Dwarven Battlerager Fighter...

I've touched the riddles/puzzle thing in the past and have implemented the character mechanics only in the event the players get stuck. If the human cannot figure it out..they can apply applicable skill or attribute rolls for 'hints' to the puzzle should they exceed a typical DC for the given...

I've gradually created a list of all around useful items for non-speicific builds. I organized the list based on item slot and then item levels. When characters level, I just pick from the list and everyone is happy. I've created this list based both on my thoughts of what is useful and...

I think the game could likely do away with many feats and instead add their abilities to a class or race. These bonuses would be added as you level your character. Racial feats could simply be built into a the race and improve every 5 levels or so. Dragonborn could gain low light vision and...

Hopefully people really start/continue to show their dislike for the direction of D&D by no longer funding it. I for one, haven't purchased any material since the release of essentials, but continue to have a blast playing the material I've purchased. As far as I'm concerned...4th edition is...

3 or 4 encounters in heroic tier seems typical these days. My Brutal Scoundrel Rogue, however, easily eats up 3 surges per encounter even with defensive based feats. He is lucky to make it into the 3rd encounter with surges left within the new damage rules. I've adjusted to this by taking...

Constant bonuses. 4e has a lot of conditional factors to track within the powers. Constant bonuses give a strong sense of meaning to feat as it changes how your character performs at all times. All printed feat bonuses should stack with one another...and many feats should be allowed to be...

I love 4E too much to switch to any other product at this time. Granted, I no longer purchase books for 4E, and may not again with possible exceptions of Monster Manuals and Player Handbooks but that's not the point. 4E has an amazingly customizable foundation of mechanics where, after some...

I personally prefer doing away with XP as a game mechanic entirely. Instead associating levels with adventures. In the end I average about double the progression, leveling every 4 encounters on average.

My group has always played D&D with an accelerated level progression. Typically about 4 encounters or one small adventure per level. A larger dungeon of 10+ encounters could easily span 3 levels of actual gameplay. As such, we've run level 1-30 in full, and mulitple shorter games typically...

I find standards to be well balanced...encounter powers that are standard actions that can be negated by an enemies standard action. In my campaign, it was very common for the lurkers or minions to rush a standard at the cost of Opportunity Attacks. These things just add another fun layer to...

This does seem like an abnormally long time frame to play with only one encounter. Of course, if RP takes up half the session, then 3 hours with one battle is a bit more understandable. In my experience, I find heroic tier battles to average around 30 minutes to 1 hour. Paragon tier is closer...

Yes, of course you can miss on purpose. However, a character has no reason to do this unless it is an act of roleplay, or an abuse of the game mechanics. If their intention is to miss on purpose in combat, the act is no longer an attack roll with an associated power, but rather a bluff check...

I've only ever played or DM'd in a party where all roles were covered once. From experience, I've found the controller role to be easily bypassed in the game without problems at all. That being said, we did have a fey warlock in the party, who plays a little like a controller in the later...