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Leader=!Healing Leader=Support Healing is one aspect of support. Buffing and battlefield control is another. While Warlords make subpar healers, they make good leaders in other aspects. This naturally means that they are not cut out for some playstyles. If you go into it thinking you...

Okay. That's fair. Your post seemed to indicate a dissatisfaction with the fix as a whole, and I was only adressing the XP side. As far as balance goes, 4e is easier to work than CR was, but it is not 100% perfect. You will still need to tweak for party makeup. If you have a party filled...

I dunno, I liked the apartment analogy. The apartment *building* is middle earth, if you want to get to heaven you need to go to an entirely different building. That is why I liked the analogy, it helps illustrated that the feywild and shadowfell are reflections of our own (fake, D&D) world...

I like it. I am currently playing a Warlord/Fighter, and part of the reason I went with Tactical Presence was the Int bonus to AC. I can see if I had chosen a class with even *less* armor proficiency how things would be worse. Fighter/Wizard is really not too bad of a combination, since you...

AFAIK there isn't a way to get the encounter card turned into an at will. My gnomish mage had that issue with, what was it, Ghost Sound? He just played with one red card shuffled in with the greens. I am with you though, it *is* annoying. I would like to have more control over the cards and...

Okay, so I figured out what the issue was. The binary nature of "Surprise, you're stabbed!" is what does it. Sadly, this is not really a rules-that-can-be-debated issue as much as it is a rules don't do it issue. Say the Nazgul were successful in sneaking into Frodo's room. They would get...

Meh, you're right. In my head I formulated a good argument for readying occuring out of combat, but either I am unable to make it come out right, or there is no real difference. Either way, you're right. Jay

Sure, you could go this way. Since you are not in combat though, 85% of the combat rules and arguments are thrown out. Out of combat, PC's are a little more free to do things. I see no problem with your character making a plan, and following through, *before* initiative is rolled: "I...

Wow. First, XP is not everything. XP is a mechanism for delivering reward to players. The most important thing is whether or not each encounter that rewards XP is also entertaining. In fact, you can change how you give out XP in a boatload of ways, and have little or no impact at all on...

He's talking about the Feat. See, he mentions 'Expanded Spellbook'. The feat does suck. The Staff is nice, though. Feat=meh Staff=meh+ Jay

Right, and this is kind of my dilemma. Does a Dragonborn take a Paragon Tier feat to increase the damage of his breath, when it is not all that useful to him? The utility a melee type gets out of it, as a minion clearer, is not effected. The arcane types already have much better attacks...

. . if you take expertise too, or if it is even allowed in your campaign. Jay PS - figured a FIFY would be a bit too snarky, hope this is as bland an inoffensive as i usually am

Off the top of my head: - When you choose your class (Hybrid, then Hybrid Sorcerer) it asks you which stat you want to use for damage bonus. Did you choose the correct one? - Are you sure? Did you go the tab where you choose powers, and look at the powers individually to see the breakdown...

Doesn't pose a huge problem for some characters, but for others. . . Fighter might roll 1-3 die per attack, but a Sorcerer doing say, 3d6 to 5 different enemies, you have just sentenced him to a ton of rolls, and the DM to a ton of bookkeeping. "Okay, roll damage die for the ones with one hit...

Kind of convoluted, but would Arcane Implement Proficiency to get Pact Blades work, with a Pact Hammer? As for houseruling? For just you, and just your character, I don't really get any balance issues. If you wanted to create a world of them, and make them commonplace, then it would make...

These six races have racial powers that present some balance problems: Bladeling, Dragonborn, Duergar, Genasi, Drow, and Minotaur. Each of them can use a power one time per encounter that has an attack bonus of only Stat + *something*. For all but the Drow and Minotaur, that something is +2...

There are a couple of minor non-magical items that PC's can by in 4e that aid checks. There are footpads that add +1 to stealth, and disguise and climbing kids. Not too tough to rule in a heavy cloak that adds +1 item bonus to Endurance checks for certain purposes, or what have you. 3.5 had...

lol@strobe light wizard. Looking at this not from a 'what does stow mean' or a 'historical origins of the shield' but from a practical point of view, this whole discussion is silly. We are playing a game. This game has rules in place to balance certain choices made by players. One of these...

I tried man. . . Jay

Yeah. Balance is the thing that will be rough to do here. If you wanted to just make a race, with the +2 to two stats and two skills, it would be cake to do, but the miscellaneous stuff is what you might have trouble with. Most racial powers are *about* as powerful as an at-will, but this...