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Artificer is in the Eberron setting guide, but another possibility is giving them a companion character who can provide some healing. Rules for companion characters are in DMG 2.

Cool idea, think it could be something that themes could grow to be (or could have been if they were willing to make more changes up-front) but I just want to plug TVTrope's Cast Calculus page (which references the five-man-band.) It should be required reading for all your players before they...

NPCs do have (assumed) magical gear; presumably about 2 pluses less, making them about 25 times less valuable, making them worth a rounding error in the next dragon's treasure hoard. *waves hands* It's non-consequential to the story. Why would you even bother saying "you find 3 +1 swords" to a...

You should have just stopped at "No feats", period (instead of "...that give a static blah blah".) Powers (and class features) are just a better way of doing the same thing; just, rather than getting them at levels 1,2,3, 5,6,7, and 10, make sure everyone get one at every level.

Just turn it into a vicious weapon. Starts with the same letter, still does d12s on crits... who could tell the difference!

I let my players roll dice for three reasons: So that they'll believe I'm not playing favorites. Because it helps me avoid playing favorites. And because I couldn't purposefully plan to have half the crazy/funny/awesome stuff happen that just falls out at random from the dice.

more dice = sharper peak It doesn't matter much how you use those dice (add them, take the middle, take the highest, count a "success" for each die above a certain value) but the more of them you roll at once, the more likely you are to get a moderate result. But the entire "Core Mechanic" of...

Have you never actually RUN a mystery adventure? The worst thing in the world would be to prepare a complex intricate mystery, and have the players miss the first few clues; half an hour in and they're standing around going "What the hell are we suppose to do? THIS SUCKS." If there is a mystery...

Okay, this is like the fourth time you've alluded to this in this thread without giving any examples, so as someone who never looked at the previews, fine; I'll bite: What things, specifically, did they change?

And what did you find when you looked in the rules compendium? Because nothing is coming to my mind. Maybe you're thinking of assisting, which now is based on your level (something I disagree w/, btw; what would have been so hard about saying "the DC minus 10"?)) If only there were some sort...

Doesn't the ritual cause the target to take a bunch of damage; i.e., spend some healing surges and it's over and done? Look, if you want a game that has debilitating wounds, D&D has NEVER been that game (even though people have been trying to make up house rules to make it be that game...

Except it isn't. A 15 foot wide chasm is always going to be a DC 15 athletics check to jump across. But you don't have epic level characters jump across 15 foot wide chasms if you expect to challenge them. Higher DC checks are suppose to be more impressive things. A hard religion check at level...

Agreed. There won't be a "5e", but there'll be a 4e-based "D&D, 2013 edition", which will be fully compatible with the Rules Compendium but feature its own races, classes, monsters, etc., and be the only thing usable in official play, but you're of course welcome to do whatever you want at home.

As always, the answer is IT DEPENDS. For someone new to DMing 4e, who just wants to try things out? The DM's Kit. It has everything you need or could want: the rules, a few monsters with tokens, some treasure, an adventure with maps, and advice on how to DM; everything. (Except dice. So get...

Why does WotC hate heavy armor?

What about resist weapon, resist melee, resist attacks of target creature; all effects that exist in the game. If a fire giant makes its melee weapon attack that deals "damage + fire damage" and I have resist 5 all and resist 5 weapon, I should take the same amount of damage if I only have...

Resistances should never stack. Having resist 5 x and resist 5 y against an attack that does damage of type x and y means you only resist 5. We all agree on that, yes? So, having resist 5 x and resist 5 x _again_ shouldn't stack either. I think we can agree on that. Now, say you take 5 fire...

Your solution to "not enough mechanical distinction between some races" is to remove most of the mechanics? I admit, it's unorthodoxed. I mean, you could just as easily say "get rid of most races." I mean, what's a goliath, except for a tall dwarf? And what's a gnome, except for a shorter...

The cover/concealment difference has been... covered (;)), but no one's hit obscured yet, so: Obscurement is a property of terrain, which grants creatures concealment. There are 3 types (light, heavy, and total) that grant different amounts of concealment (partial or total) depending on how far...

Concealment no, but total concealment does avoid OAs, even if you aren't hidden.