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Goodbye to Razortooth Shifter. In the words of I I Rabi: "Who ordered that?"

My Wizard(*) tends to think of them as "co-workers" rather than "allies"... That said, I only targeted them when they had resistance to the damage type or after I got War Wizardry. Even with War Wizardry, after one bad experience I made sure to avoid any powers with conditions as well as...

In the weekly campaign I'm playing in we're at 16th level, while the fortnightly game I'm DMing just reached 13 least Saturday. Both started not long after the game was released. The weekly game has 7 players, which slows things down a bit compared to other which has only 5.

I think that Winged Horde would be fine if it targeted all creatures in burst rather than enemies only. That it's unconditionally better than Scorching Burst even after this is a feature, not a bug. WotC is starting to address the core problem of controllers: that they don't actually control...

In the last 3.5 campaign I played the DM was convinced the warlock was overpowered since it could use all its powers at will. He formed this opinion at 1st level, where it is a very good class, but he kept it all the way up to 20th, where the cleric - who had always been played as a pure...

I think that when WotC sees a balance problem it tends to nerf with errata but improve with new content. Thus Rain of Steel gets a published errata, but the Wizard at-will - which the designers acknowledge don't have enough control - aren't changed; Wizards just publishes new at-wills and let...

I'm going to vote off the Sorcerer: it steps on Warlock and Wizard schticks and just doesn't seem to have much story beyond "we had them in 3e so here they are." Otherwise I would have voted off the Wizard, the last representative of a role that WotC is yet to properly define.

Hey, I keep seeing Druid on these lists while better classes (ie any of them) get voted off!

Updating Twin Strike to fit the PHB2 design does mean rebalancing it: they made the same mistake with Dual Strike, but since then they've avoided any at-wills that make allow two attacks to be made against the same target. For the obvious reason that it's conspicuously better than other at-wills.

Taking cover then being pinned could be a player choice though: if you're out in the open and something horrific attacks, you can either choose to stand there and see if you'll survive, or dive for cover and then have to recover morale to get back into action.

I like alignment as a descriptor of cosmic sides: the Law and Chaos of OD&D which came from Moorcock (I think.) I don't like alignment as a personality or morality mechanic, because I think it fails to describe real people.

My solution for Twin Strike would be to remove both the power and Hunter's Quarry and make the second attack into a minor action attack that's a class ability. And a different class ability depending on whether they're a bow or two weapon ranger. Then the ability to make the second attack would...

It looks like you've survived this round, Druid! But I'll keep voting for you till you're gone.

A wizard can get an at-will area burst 3 by early paragon using Arcane Admixture, Expand Spell and Resounding Thunder. By multiclassing into Wizard Swordmages can apply this to Sword Burst to get a close burst 3 which only targets enemies (this is what's usually called the Thunderball...

4e doesn't make getting a 19-20 critical very difficult once you reach paragon, and it's relatively easy once you get to epic. The designers have also added a whole lot of feats that have benefits on a critical. I don't think this is unintentional. If I was the player and you said you had to...

I think the Warden|Ranger is a nice hybrid for Tempest Fighter replacement: 6HP a level, you can mark one adjacent enemy as a free action, you can get Font of Life with a feat, you have Twin Strike and full quarry damage on it. You don't get the TWF rangers Two Blade Fighting Style, but a double...

I'd allow it in the game I run. I think Hand of Radiance is one of the first controller at-wills that really lets them do what they're meant to do - extra damage to groups on enemies. With the exception of Orb Wizards, I think most controllers aren't powerful enough to justify their lower HP. A...

In our game last night an elite monster used an action point in one encounter and then ran away. We had a 5 minute rest before going after it. In the second encounter the DM wanted to spend its action point, some of the other players objected, saying it had already spent it and hadn't had a...

That's true, but I think it would be a bad idea to allow it to go further into powers. IMO the problem with 4e is that the siloing didn't go far enough. A new system of out-of-combat powers could be completely siloed.

While I'd like non-combat powers I'd think they'd have to be a additional sub-system unconnected with the current powers. Otherwise they'd produce what the designers are trying to avoid, characters crippled by taking non-combat options.