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This sort of thing is handled fairly well by the 'wish list' philosophy of 4E, for one thing. I don't play my game quite that way in a meta-game sense, but if a player wants a new sword or whatever and they make it clear to me in character I'm likely to add plot hooks where they could...

I've always been really interested in level 10 vs 11 and 20 vs 21. The huge boost in power you can get when you go up in tier seems like something that's more intended to be countered by the DM rather than per-level math. I was expecting to see a huge jump here, but with numbers like this it'll...

There's some level of feat support for most everything but necrotic, generally in paragon, though fire and radiant are both in epic. Cold, force and thunder have two feats each (force and thunder sharing Solid Sound), with every other damage type having one. Cold is easily the strongest (though...

That's a pretty good idea. In fact they could unify it so that Divine Sanction is a paladin class feature that applies the effect to any marked opponent; this would increase the power of some pre-DP marking powers and multiclass marking options, but I don't think any of them would be broken...

But I want to add thunder to the the lighting at will. ... for, thematic reasons. Yeah, that's it.

Start with being the operative issue (and only with a 12-16 in Dex/Int, depending on the wizard). But it's a problem as AC scales, because you either need to: A) Be in light armor and adding a stat that you increase to AC. B) Be in heavy armor. C) Get some sort of other fix (Barbarian Agility)...

For most avengers (since you lack the stats to easily get feat support for either) it basically comes down as: Blade - For those who focus on powers that have cool effects on a hit. Axe - For those who just want raw damage or focus more on high [W] and effect attacks.

My single largest complaint with Character Builder is that the raw numbers adjustments are counter intuitive and don't work for attack/damage numbers. I don't mind that it's often wrong, but it won't let me fix things that are wrong.

Psychic has the best effect, force has the most options, fire (at epic) can get around resistance the best and therefore be the most reliable and thunder is the best for mass AoE spam. Most of the options are interesting, but if you only care about pure DPR than go nuts with cold. I really...

Spending 2 feats and putting a 13 into a stat that does nothing else for you (maybe a 12 if you can wait for paragon) since it's on the same defense as your secondary just so your AC scales properly with level? It's terrible feat design (and a general design bug for about a dozen builds who need...

I did exactly this a few months ago when I had a party of 4th level PCs wandering through the Mournland encounter a 14th level solo beholder: http://www.enworld.org/forum/d-d-4th-edition-rules/265869-rate-your-encounters-2.html#post4983252

I think the only clean way to address the critical issue is as such: Twin Strike Ranger Attack 1 At-Will * Martial, Weapon Standard Action Melee or Ranged weapon Requirement: You must be wielding two melee weapons or a ranged weapon. Targets: One or Two Creatures Attack: Strength vs. AC...

Depends on how much of a dick your DM is. Mine is constantly throwing stuff like 'Ongoing 10 Necrotic (save ends). First failed save: Ongoing 30 Necrotic. Second failed save: Death.' and 'Dazed and Immobilized (save ends). First failed saved: Stunned (save ends).' at us.

Paladins excel at handing out saves with bonuses, they're among the best at it. I've been playing a currently level 14 Kalashatar Wis/Cha Paladin and I've saved so many people with my free saves and bonuses it's not even funny. Healing, however, is a different story entirely. Lay on hands isn't...

Fighters are easily among if not the highest damage dealing non-striker in the game (aside from possibly wizards, if looking for total damage with area attacks). If he picks feats and powers for offense he'll do just fine.

For D&D the easiest way to do this is to play E6 (or E8 or whatever). http://www.enworld.org/forum/general-rpg-discussion/206323-e6-game-inside-d-d.html

Very nice. It could be handy to compare this to the default amount of wealth a new character gets via the DMG guidelines, too.

Resisting the urge to give every PC Bracers of Archery/Iron Armbands of Power/Staff of Ruin builds character. If you really want the item bonus rather than something interesting just take the staff you originally wanted and a Dragonshard Augment of the Mage.

Saw this on the WotC boards: Class Acts, Ranger is up early for some reason... Class Acts: Ranger

Yeah, I have two hybrids in my game. They're pretty feat starved and seem to need feats to make up for the lack of class powers to some degree, so I'll be interested in seeing how this changes things.