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The Skill Training feat isn't limited to your class skills list.

It IS Hard - for most people. Your PC with the 18 Dex, Acrobatics training and +2 racial is damn near superhuman! They're the olympic gymnast, the circus performer, the freak of nature who's among the best on the planet, and they still fail one time in five! If you want that uber-acrobat PC...

Exactly. If you completely ignore all the rules for how to use minions, you're going to get some bloody strange results. One of those rules is: don't use minions that aren't appropriate for the party level. I've said this so many times I should put it in my sig: MINIONS ARE NOT A CREATURE...

Impossible encounter. The minion encounter mechanic is to replace one monster with four - not to have a one-hit wonder at large in the world! Such misuse of minions is going to result in some rather silly situations. And what does making this tax collector a credible but frail combatant add to...

The trick to understanding minions is simple, but counter-intuitive. The MM does not contain Minions because you can encounter them 'in the wild'. The MM contains minions to allow DMs to build encounters quickly. You see, Minion is NOT a creature type. It's an encounter mechanic. It allows...

Here's the real question: Why don't minions, Evasion, Mettle etc use language like "Take no damage (if any) from the 'Miss:' component of attack powers?" OR "Are immune to all effects of any attack power that misses them"? Why use such confusing language? This question is the one likely to...

I hope you added 50 gp to a treasure package to compensate the group for that. The PCs never, ever have to pay to make any other magical item useable. To charge a fee for holy symbols without giving them extra money to pay that fee would be cruel and vindictive IMO. (If you're worried about...

You're correct that the RAW do not cover this. It's a fairly safe bet, however, that it was intended that found holy symbols could be used by the PCs without any additional gold outlay, because of how treasure packets work in 4E. Most common solution I've seen is to treat it like resizing...

It'd definitely RAW to allow a dragonborn fighter to mark with their breath weapon, and frankly it's not that overpowering since it only marks them for one round. Sure, it forces those enemys to consider the dragonborn for the round after he breathes, but if he doesn't follow up by either...

I'd just like to repeat the advice given earlier in this thread, because I think it's damn good advice. Tell your players that you have concerns about this party's ability to survive, but that you're willing to give it a go if they are. For a player, there's a world of difference between going...

And why, exactly, do you think 'one less player' would be a bad thing in this situation?

Judging by the number of questions about it, and how long debate continues over the answers, Divine Challenge is one of the more confusing powers in the game. The version playtested at DDXP was already out-of-date: it had a loophole allowing a paladin to mark a target then flee the room, leaving...

*waits for*

Classes with two main stats in one defense are weaker defensively. This includes the supposed tank build of paladin - the Protector, who focusses on CHA and WIS. So we have a defender with two weak defenses where all his allies will probably only have one. Star pact Warlocks need both CHA and...

If I was DMing, I'd rule that turning invisible was failing to engage the target. The whole point of that clause is to give the enemy the option to attack you.

The game now assumes that most PCs won't take weeks off from adventuring to make mundane items, so there are no rules for it in the core books. That doesn't mean they won't be included in a future supplement, but for now we're in house rule territory. If the player really wants to wants to...

I think the balancing factor is meant to be burst and blast attacks, which should be quite effective in thinning out minions.

As I understand it, staves with the implement weapon can be used both as weapons and as implements. They can even be used as a weapon by characters that cannot use staves as an implement. Staves without the implement keyword can only be used as weapons, however.

I tend to think of minions as all having near-identical appearance. Not in hair coulour etc, but they all have the same gear. And they're taking orders from someone there if it's not an all-minion encounter. Furthermore, the fact that the encounter outnumbers the party, clues the players in...

The bit about square in your space is for creatures who occupy more than one square, like a dragon using its breath weapon.