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It's an issue because, at the end of the day, damage wins fights, and there's basically no limit to the benefit a party gets from dealing more damage (until you're consistently one-shotting at least any normal monsters). The cleric isn't mediocre because he personally deals less damage; the...

Character C as posted really seems to be about where characters are intended to be, mechanically-speaking. Of all the names to use to refer to him, "Scrubb" seems the most erroneous. In gaming terms, a scrub is a player who is not good at a game and who chooses not to get better while...

Drawing? That's what Wacom tablets are for! ;)

Your answers are: 1. No 2. No 3. No The online "Monster Builder" is no such thing, and should properly be called an online "Incorrect Monster Re-Leveler". It is a complete joke of a program with no functionality whatsoever. Don't even bother looking at it again until they announce that it...

Tracking ammo is dull and tedious, and it randomly penalizes characters using ammo-based ranged weapons instead of implement or (magic) thrown weapons. Make ammo into an actual issue, and don't be surprised when your Ranger switches to throwing around a Farbond Fullblade or something equally...

Extreme site slowness caused triple-post.

Extreme site slowness caused triple-post.

I never applied the August 2010 update, as I had let my DDI lapse at the point, and my older copy is unusably data-lossy.

Yeah, the last update removed the (quite often half-assed) RPGA monsters. It was the update in the spring with the MM3 format that broke saving and duplicating existing monsters.

And resistances. And the trigger conditions for powers. And other stuff I can't remember that makes it completely unusable because it winds up erasing half your monster.

The individual card isn't simpler, but the game as a whole is. The simplicity comes about from standardizing effects. Back in the day, they used to make all sorts of creatures that auto-killed enemies in combat. Some of them did it immediately upon being blocked, some of them did it after...

Somewhat apart from the recovery question, your Warlord should look at the fabulous Fight On feat, which grants an extra use of Inspiring Word every encounter.

You can collapse the latter two if you have access to one of the racial proficiency-plus-focus feats like Turathi Weapon Training, Dwarven Weapon Training, or Eladrin Soldier, since they don't specify "damage rolls of weapon attacks", only "damage rolls". I don't think there's one for short...

It's so fiddly and so frequently misinterpreted that I'm sure Wizards rightly decided "Healing Surge" as a frequency was a design mistake and decided to not use it ever again.

The problem is that they don't seem to be doing very much of it. I'm generally positive about the online Character Builder, apart for the UI disaster that is buying and selling, but this Monster Builder is pathetic. The old Monster Builder used to be good, before they ruined it with data-loss...

This part is completely ridiculous. So, if someone wants to use a single feat from a book without manual editing of their character sheet, they need to buy a physical copy of the book? And each player in a group needs their own copy if they have their own account? That's not exactly going to...

Wait, it's hair-splitting to expect a Monster Builder to allow actual monster-building? It's a monster catalog with two new features, leveling and importing, and neither one actually works right. I'm in the VTT beta, and realized that there it's serving a role in part of their overall...

Don't apologize for missing this. The UI for buying and selling is a flaming pile of otyugh dung. There's no way to search across all categories, and selling is stuffed in at the end of a list of types of things you can buy, which makes no damn sense at all. They've said that making it less...

For effective hybridizing, pick a Striker, Controller, or Fighter and a Leader or Non-Fighter Defender, with either the same primary attribute score or each one using the other's secondary as its primary (with your race giving bonuses to both). Use all your Standard Actions for powers from the...

Nonsense. You can preload and cache whatever you want in JS and do all your work client-side. If you structure a webapp like this correctly, there's no need for the user to wait on the network in real time.