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No. See, the thing is that they are not giving free feats, they are giving free boring uninteresting universal numbers (the add on to some of the expertise notwithstanding). In addition, you are not loosing out on anything. You are getting the exact same stuff that is exactly as applicable to...

My bad, I made a bit of a logical leap. What does a gm do that is significantly more work then players? They make up the world occasionally. They design the encounters, they make up the npc's goals and actions/reactions. They have the overarching plot, though unless you are doing a rather...

Perhaps if the gm doesn't like world building, encounter planning and such... they should quit gming? If they DO like that, how does how much effort they spend on doing something they enjoy doing have any real weight in who deserves happiness at the table? More to the topic. Actual death at the...

The party in question is a human mage enchanter, a drow executioner, a changling hybrid sorceror/rogue, a human tac warlord and a... err... something humanish con battlemind. The battlemind is almost universally having 2 ish people attack him till they die. Level 4, so might be the whole low...

After reading some bits and pieces of posts about peoples epic dungeon delve and their stringing encounters together for tougher ones. I looked and my game and noticed that pretty much every encounter was costing at least half the party 3+ surges. As a great many party members do not have more...

Another one for "as long as my group lasts" though with a bit worse a caveat: that time period seems to be about 6 sessions on average with 3 outliers. A slapstick game that ended with "Rocks fall everyone dies no save" after like 3 years, a 'normal' game that ended with saving the world after 7...

The character builder as of now doesn't seem to let it work, but hey, it doesn't like someone dual wielding spiked shields and using tide of iron either.

Ah, my bad, must have just been a house interpretation I was using. Though, quarterstaff's d8's with staff fighting is not that bad.

Paladin/Sorcerer + Arcane Implement Proficiency (heavy blade)=All in one user. Hybrids can use any implement from either of their classes as an implement for the other. This doen't exclude implement use you got later from a feat, right? Since you can use a heavy blade as a sorcerer and you can...

The trend I'm thinking they are trying to do is that pure class characters with intended same class paragon path tailored to their pre-defined build is the max personal power a character can ever have. Any deviation from that you must sacrifice things for a nebulous 'versatility' claim.

If your barbarian was using pit fighter, you could always try swapping to kensai instead? +4 damage forever and +1 hit forever is often good, or did they make that one fighter only as well? Perhaps they should just do a global update? "All paragon paths only work with the intended base class'...

That is rather a false dichotomy if I ever seen one. Also, just use infinite gm powers to kill cheesy players till they learn. Or perhaps just say, "You can't do this."

Focused expertise has disappeared....

Hense the sadly. The enemies get to know the totality of the causality of effects. So they know about the fighter mark and the retribution, and probably if they have feats that make it worse, etc... At least they just stand in the fighter stance that's 1w auto damage, making cc attack oh well...

Sadly, my gm plays with the "Critters know what happens cause of effects on them." interpretation that lets them know more or less exactly what the downside of violating a mark or walking past a person is. Makes sorcerous blade channeling never get used for AoO's too...

Ah my bad, it's subject to effects caused by you as the description of the staff. Is there a specific definition of what an effect is somewhere? If it's something by an effect line, that would include OoE and powers that mark specifically at least right?

Oh? Random stuff that's not a full post? Aversion staff! Mark and Oath of enmity is a condition.... Staff fighting is a feat... Moar stacking defenses!

Sadly, for some reason, it won't let you pick a spiked shield that you are dual wielding as your weapon for tide of iron in the character builder...

Getting the one higher crit range then is easily obtainable (Jagged is available and only requires the specific weapon part, radiant servent is a significantly more synergestic on outside of crit range powers class) really really REALLY shouldn't cause a theoretical character to outdamage an...

You think one should pick the paragon path MORESO because of 'character plot' then effectiveness, you mean. If a person's character concept changed radically because of plot or the like, would you say they are unable to do that because the mechanics they already picked say as much? And with...