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So a tempest fighter can still use Tide of Iron? That's pretty cool.

It's a dramatic thing, not a simulationist thing. It's that scene in the action movie where the character is wounded and can't stand up straight and grunts with effort or pain whenever they do something, but can somehow still fight off a horde of ninjas. They just can't move around, 'cuz that...

So Erathis is the god of what non-religious people do anyway? That's real exciting. :P Personally I find the idea of intimate acceptance and celebration of death's inevitability to be pretty interesting. It's so contrary to the nearly-universal human impulse of trying to stave off death as...

Raven Queen. As much as I hate to hop on the bandwagon with everyone else, she's just damn cool. It's a predictable choice for me (I didn't pick a name like Gloombunny because of a deep and abiding hatred of goths, after all), but hey, sometimes consistency is a good thing. Runners-up for me...

If you think getting +1 to hit is worth giving your enemy a free attack or suffering a lump of radiant damage, sure.

Discount rangers? Attacks on the Run doesn't require two weapons. That's Attacks on the motherfreakin' Run, the level 9 daily that outdamages many level 29s. Granted, with ranger you'd have no paragon path option other than the native paladin ones - but still, if you're looking for a...

Well, they get used up in the sense that it probably won't be feasible to retrieve one during a fight, so you want to have some spares just so you can throw more than one per fight, even if you can get them all back at the end of the encounter.

So what you'd really want is, say, ranger[Pit Fighter] with two vicious battleaxes, Deadly Axe, and the violet solitaire, and a cleric[Divine Oracle] assisting him. The ranger multi-attacks help ensure that he won't whiff his chance at benefitting from the prophecy, the vicious high crit...

It's just very weak compared to taking a paragon path. You gain at best a little bit of versatility, but you miss out on some very powerful abilities. Take your rogue example - if you'd gone for Daggermaster instead of paragon multiclassing, you could be Sly Flourishing daggers at range with a...

If WotC doesn't do it for me, I'll have to make up a feat or something for a warlord to carry a battle standard around in her off hand.

My gut feeling is that two-handed vs shield would be a bit more balanced if you let two-handed weapons benefit from the same +1 damage that versatile weapons get, and changed that +1 into a +2 and +3 at paragon and epic. (This would also solve the slight oddity of a bastard sword being a better...

I'm not entirely certain what's going on in the picture, but I love the expression on the elf chick's face as she waits for the dude to finish whatever he's so excited about.

Fight wizardry with wizardry: use the Magic Circle ritual around him. "An affected creature... cannot pass through the circle, affect creatures through the circle's boundary, or affect the boundary in any way." He can cast all the spells he wants, but they won't help him get out of the circle...

Why? It does less damage than the dragonborn racial for the same minor action, doesn't affect an area, requires combat advantage, and can't be further increased with feats. It piggybacks on an attack roll you're already making instead of using its own, which is probably a good thing but not...

Minotaurs are medium.

Getting back to the original topic... I think it's deliberate that it's not that hard to acquire ritual casting. There's not a whole lot of benefit to the party to have more than one character able to cast rituals, and most parties will have either a wizard or a cleric in them who can handle...

Eh... he's still only +1 AC over a wizard with an orb and shield. +1 AC is more meaningful than it was in 3.5 but it's not that big a deal. Besides, a wizard who wants to blow attribute points on Strength just to get a shield instead of a second implement deserves a bit of AC. (This is...

Yeah, the +1 AC is part of what balances staff against the other implements. I don't know why they would want to sneak in a subtle nerf to wizards of a particular paragon path using a particular implement mastery. That doesn't make any sense.

So, what, taking demigod counts as min-maxing? It's not like there's a lot of options for epic destiny.

Interrupt only describes the timing. The interrupted action finishes after you resolve the interrupt, unless the interrupting action makes the interrupted action invalid. The PC whose charge was interrupted could continue it after the kobold's charge attack resolves, unless the kobold is...