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What's the justification behind grading Hit And Run at D? It does what it says on the box: it hits an enemy and lets you bail out. Certainly you'll usually want to use Twin Strike instead, but it's not a bad power at all - I've ended up using it a couple times when the battlefield situation has...

Personally I'm fond of a house rule that lets a character make more arrows with a fairly easy Nature or Dungeoneering check during extended rests. A guy needs to do something during his watch and it's not odd to think a professional bowman and hunter knows how to make arrows.

I guess I wasn't clear enough with the fluff on the example item. The idea is that as all the damage done is psychic damage, the fireball (for example) is actually a nightmare of a fireball made real - the conjuration is a living nightmare, the ongoing damage is spasms of fear, and so forth...

While it is problematic from a balance standpoint (as basically all keyword inheritance is) there is no fluff reason that this is any more difficult than changing damage types. Example: Orb Of Murderous Dread "This orb contains a fragment of pure nightmare plucked from the far planes of...

Weapon Focus doubledips just as well as Eladrin Weapon Training does. Any damage bonus does, really. For my part, what I most look forward to with a TWF ranger is Stormwarden's general awesomeness and eventually Heavy Blade Opportunity + Twin Strike + Two-Weapon Flurry + Scimitar Dance...

Every so often the DM for the (admittedly low-level) game I'm in thinks the monsters would get this great idea. Every time it leads to hilariously dead monsters. The situation if Joe Goblin stays and continues to engage the paladin instead of the striker is that he is steadily taking defender...

I think everyone is being a little too literal about what a wish list constitutes. I've used something similar to a wish list and it works out well enough: I ask the players things like "Is it more important to your character to have a strong weapon or strong armor? Are you wearing scalemail...

It takes a lab and hours of effort for most people. For an artificer? He has a well-organized reagent belt and knows by heart which bottles mix with which others in which proportions, and just how much magic to push into it. For me, the Alchemist is the buffing artificer with a side of control...

At which he is no better and than wizards, and like wizards he is likely to find that this gives him weaker wands than the ones he finds. The motivation for an artificer to actually Create Magic Items is as weak as it is for everyone else. I therefore strongly believe that their powers should...

While it's conceptually entertaining, it doesn't address the basic problem I have with this incarnation: the reason wands and staves were the staple of the 3E artificer is that the artificer's schtick was making his own equipment by the bucketload and wands were easy and effective to make...

There are at least a few genuinely artificer-feeling powers in there - I love the mini-trampoline absurdly. Also, it might be Kingdom of Loathing's fault but I envision Restorative Formula as a healing potion loaded onto a blowgun dart. Personally, I would love the "elemental burst" at-will...

Right, that's the problem. I used the exact same wording for the Wandlord ability that Daggermaster has. Customer Service has a bad habit of answering with what they think the rules ought to be and frequently contradicting themselves rather than going with actual clarification of what the rules are.

The short answer is: yes, warlocks are short on feats. The consequence of this is that you have room for Shenanigans. You have plenty of feat slots free to blow on multiclassing for oddball/utility powers or on training in a whole extra character's worth of skills if you feel like it.

Well, here's a hypothetical. Suppose a wizard paragon path is published, the "Wandlord". The Wandlord has the ability "Supreme Wand Of Precision", which reads "You can score critical hits with wands on a roll of 18-20." Would anyone claim that a warlock/wizard who took Wandlord can't benefit...

Badstat orb wizard (slightly lower Int to keep Wis high plus a little Cha for Spell Focus)

I would say it should never be lower than 18 without a good reason. If you have a specific reason in mind, it can often be much better to have a 16 or 17 in your main (including any racial bonuses) and high secondary abilities. However, without such a reason and just building abstractly, a 16...

I'd even let the player be wielding both a staff and an orb with the understanding that if his other hand is full he can't make the necessary gestures to activate his orb. I mean, as long as he's got one item per hand slot it doesn't bother me if it's not actually in his hand, just like an ioun...

The issue is that neither Corruption nor Reaving applies to an attack using the implement. If the ranger had an off-hand weapon with a property that gave him +2 Will defense, would you say he doesn't get the bonus on rounds when he doesn't use that weapon to attack? That said, as was pointed...

And unlike every other class in the book, a warlock can't choose a different paragon path without multiclassing. To me, this is the single biggest reason to avoid Star pact, which is a shame because I love that Far Planes flavor. A Star pact warlock very nearly has to multiclass, and even then...

Even if the two friends don't have readied attacks, the pursuer might be a little leery of stepping in to suddenly be threatened by three targets rather than one - especially considering that the other two will be able to shift forwards to flank him if he gives pursuit.