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As I recall, the Fighter has the following Exploits: At Will - Cleave, Reaping Strike (STR damage on a miss); Encounter - Sweeping Strike (weapon damage and knock down); Daily - Brute Strike. They gave him a Utility power that gave him 2d6+Con temp hp at level 2. At level 3 he got an encounter...

I also got to take a look at this at my local game store today. A few answers: They've done away with the delve format, though they've incorporated some elements of it into a more traditional style (everything, story and all, is together in one place). The Fighter had a few new abilities...

The Worg pic from yesterday was the Huge variant known as the Guulvorg - I believe they appeared in MM 5. This has been confirmed by Logan Bonner on the official Wotc forums.In my opinion, the new Guulvorg looks better than the old one (very similar still, though). We don't know what the 4e Worg...

I think this is probably the progression of feats, though some classes might get bonus feats (and we know humans get a bonus feat). Still, even assuming no bonus feats, this is a good amount of feats. As far as attribute increases go, we can only extrapolate. In 3.x you got 1 point increase...

While the standard so far has been NPC's with no class levels - there is nothing saying that many of the NPC's in the adventure modules and in FR won't have PC class levels. They've said that you can stat out NPC's like PC's and the game supports it. But yeah, Tamm really could just be an Epic...

The Human Mage has Thunderburst (a burst 1 ranged 10 attack) and dancing lightning (which targets three enemies within range). He is also an Artillery monster. The Kobold Wyrmpriest has a Blast 3, and is Artillery. I think Artillery and controllers will have AOE attacks - the controllers will...

I've run some encounters and such with the pregens, and my players had no problem remembering the bonuses. Though, honestly, the burden has shifted to the player to remember the buffs - I'm busy trying to coordinate (and roleplay) the monsters they are fighting. In 3.x we had problems...

The way I'm understanding magic items, I'm thinking character wealth is more flexible than it was in 3rd edition (which, in order to maintain balance, was rigorously controlled). It seems like the only magic items you need to worry about to keep a character balanced are weapons/implements...

I don't know, the Halfling Paladin still gets a bonus to Cha, which is probably the most important attribute for that class, and has an amazing racial power. Having seen some of 4e played with the quickstart rules, I'm inclined to believe that Second Chance and Elven accuracy are two of the most...

I voted no, but honestly, a DDI update would be neat and could be done after the release of the PHB II (which will have psionics, presumably). So put me down for No on a published series of books and Yes for an online update.

I will buy into 4e no matter what they do with the GSL. I played D&D before the OGL, and I would keep playing if they closed up again. That said, I liked some of the 3rd party stuff - Arcana Evolved and Iron Heroes most particularly, but there has been lots of good stuff from 3rd parties. I'm...

A Divine Striker could go either way, but I like the idea of something similar to the Black Flame Zealot prestige class or a dervish (or the combination of the two). Fallen Seraph's "Blind Swordsmen" also fits with this concept, I think. A class like that could also have "martyr" type abilities...

If you look at the pregenned characters, only two appear to have 2 feats. The Human Cleric (we know humans get bonus feats - see the SNeak Attack! article) and the Eladrin Ranger. I'm thinking that Rangers gain bonus feats, though they might be pre-determined (like in 3.0) or taken from a small...

That correction really confuses the issue, I think. While they shifted ray of frost under the encounter powers, it is still listed as "At Will" in the power description. I'm assuming it was moved there for a reason, but I don't think they finished the correction - shouldn't it say "Tira may only...

This was a good post, and it does show why we won't be seeing animal companions and such in the initial PHB release for 4e. I think it's easier to balance when it is a core class feature - like the Ranger's animal companion in 3e - than when it is something like the Summon Monster line of...

Part of me wishes I had never read that livejournal entry. I like the rules clarifications and so forth, and I know that we are seeing people play a version of the game that is not finalized and so on, but I found many of the comments coming from former designers to be amazingly uninciteful. How...

It sounds like we have an enchantment process with rituals, so preferring a certain weapon, even an exotic one, shouldn't be prohibitive. The real question is what one does with the random magic weapons and armor a party finds that nobody wants to use. It doesn't sound like you'll have anybody...

It also seems like they've made an effort to balance the game in such a way there are only a few magic items that a given character is expected to possess. This should help mitigate the "arms race" with magic items (particularly stat buffers, which appear to be largely removed) that so often...

This thing does sound interesting, and it has really cool abilities. It seems like a big part of 4e fights, particularly high level ones, will involve tactics on both sides of the DM screen. I'm still trying to understand why these DDM monsters all have such low HP (this thing has less than half...

I also think that the HP on this monster is wrong - the Hooked Horror has almost 40 more hp despite being non-Elite (though 3 levels higher). From what we've seen, the Tomb Guardian should have something like 250 HP.