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Toughness is the only one of those I've ever taken, but even then, I'll only bother on front-line characters.

Actually, the books ARE very specific, and your DM isn't "wacky"-- he's 100% correct. Check the "Choosing Targets" heading of the "Understanding Powers" section of any Essentials rulebook (or the similar part of PHB1). Everything in the game that has stats is a creature-- monsters, player...

Not necessarily. They've only been saying that "sharing" will be worked back in-- which could be as simple as an option to send a character to another DDI account. In fact, that's a far simpler solution than building an XML exporter. So, yeah. Pretty sure iPlay4e and similar tools won't have...

This has been in development for 6+ months. The MS announcement was last week.

Neither of those weapon groups is in Essentials, so it's very unlikely we'll see Expertise feats for them in the book. Possibly in Dragon, though.

Still no Int/Con race. :( <-- holds out for Warforged

The October update wasn't on the calendar, either. It just rolled in unannounced, but on-schedule.

I love the design philosophy on the Flesh Golem-- it's basically designed the same way as an Essentials martial character. It has a basic attack that just does damage, and then several triggers to use that power, each either triggering in an odd way or gaining special riders. So instead of...

I've been a subscriber for about 15 months. I was completely thrilled with the content output when I first subscribed-- it had usable player crunch three to four days a week. These days, it's gone way downhill. We're lucky to get one decent player article a week. That said, I continue to...

Scare... crow. It's designed to startle birds, not people. Or is poop a delicacy in the Nentir Vale because my dog thinks it's delicious? :P

My thought when I started reading it: "Wait, so that batman villain is canon in D&D now?!" Seriously... is there any tradition in D&D for scarecrows to be "fear vampires" like these ones, or did the author just straight rip off a comic villain?

Sure, but at that point in his training/career, he's not a cavalier. :P

Was anybody else surprised to see his class features not including a mount by default (even if it popped up at a later level)? The word "cavalier" kind of implies cavalry, no?

Correct me if I'm wrong, but do the companions' defenses not scale? They appear to be fixed at their starting values.

The DMG clearly explains that the XP value for an encounter's worth of bad guys is for eliminating the problem, which does NOT necessarily mean "killing everything". Creating a clever diversion to make the problem go away is just as effective a solution as killing the bad guys, so it's worth...

I can't even begin to figure out why the word "kit" was giving you that impression. A kit is a pile of useful objects. It has no bearing whatsoever on the quality or contents of those materials.

Err, you're kind of arguing a weird point there. The definition of "kit" is: ...and the DM's kit most definitely fits that description. It's a collection of tools and supplies (maps and tokens) as well as instructional matter (DM's book) for the purpose of DMing. Being a "kit" does not mean...

Sorry, I'm confused. Are you referring to basic properties like Brutal, High Crit, etc, or properties on magic items? Or something else?

I like fba's idea-- instead of the PCs finding him dead, they instead find him disheveled and cowering in the back of some filthy cave, terrified for his life. He gained near-godhood in a state of near-complete mental shutdown from paranoia and terror, and has been hiding from the Big Bad all...

If you're going to yank their prize away like that, you'd better be sure to offer up an alternate solution to the problem almost immediately after the big reveal. A few moments of "Oh crap" is awesome, but if you let them go home that night still thinking you screwed them over, they're going to...