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They are falling into the same pitfall with Sorcerer, they fixed the issue slightly with Monk, giving them the ability to apply extra damage to one target in their AoE's. They could easily have changed Blinding Barrage to: Hit: Dexterity modifier damage, and the target is blinded until the end...

Other than upset some people, I'm not sure what exactly the blinding barrage nerf is accomplishing. If they don't want drow to deal 2d8 damage with it because they think it's too much or something, they could reduce it to 1[W]. Reducing a standard action daily attack power for a striker to deal...

In 4e, I don't like how large a proportion of your defense is measured by your magical masterwork heavy armor. I'm perfectly happy pretending people who are not wearing their heavy armor have a -2 penalty to AC, compared to the AC they would have with their armor. This way, not wearing your +3...

I'm all for adjusting things on the DM side. If the players don't want to play a leader that's fine by me, I'll adjust. I can reduce monster damage and/or use more minions and they don't need a healer. For a tough fight I may have terrain elements or battle stages that trigger surges. Terrain...

Homebrew. Current 4e campaign is heavily influenced by Star Wars, SG1, and Harry Potter, with side treks borrowing from Star Trek, Death Gate Cycle, or whatever TV show of the week that I liked, from Chuck to CSI. While I have a lot of modern and sci-fi tones in my campaign, it is a fantasy...

I see. The rules also don't say you can't drop your pants and moon your thousand strong enemy, so I suppose that's also cheese. Hiding a loaded crossbow under the table and pulling the trigger before your adversary? Complete cheese. Using your cat-o-nine-tails to swing across a chasm in a...

That is rather harsh. The idea of throwing a rock (and following RAW while doing it) being cheesy beats the pants off any previous cheese declaration I have ever heard! The person in question would likely be appalled at hearing what I tell my players when they do improvised attacks. I tell...

So, can we download the updated articles? Or are the changes only in Compendium and CB? I'm already noticing a lot of the Templar changes have been scratched out, a few remain.

I find any melee|range combo to be pretty good for contributing in the most effective way to any encounter. Monk|Ranger for instance is a very versatile combo. Paladin|Warlock, Battlemind|Warlock, Paladin|Sorcerer, Swordmage|Wizard and the like are probably obvious combos, but I particularly...

I find a combination of flexible preparation and improvisation works best in these situations. I just ran an encounter, where I didn't really know where the PC's were going to take it, and was prepared for contingencies. They had 3 problems to deal with all at the same time. They could ignore...

I'm forced to vote for mathematical feats, but that doesn't completely represent where I stand. I'd like to see the separation of design spaces like UngeheuerLich. And... No need to be rude. Particularly since you said:

I like them, though a bit disappointed there's nothing for a ranged implement user. The "adjacent target" and "melee or ranged weapon" restrictions seem a bit random. But maybe my ranged warlock and sorcerer are just jealous. Favorite bits - I like that you can dodge the self inflicted damage...

Put feats into 3 categories. 1. Numeric Combat feats - Any bonus to attack, damage (or damage dice), hit points, defenses, saves, surges, initiative, etc. This is your Expertise, Focus, Superior weapon/implement, Toughness, Armor Proficiency, Unarmored Agility, Resilient Focus, Superior Will...

But it was the voices that told me.

It is actually my build, and you're right, it is an awesome build, particularly for the game where we get free superior weapon/implement at level 1, free expertise and free weapon/implement focus at level 5. Maybe it's psychological, and the existence of the offending feats make them hard to...

There isn't one right way to play the game. Some of the games I play are 90% combat, even some of the games I run. If my players are going to sleep when there is no initiative, I'll run more combat to keep them engaged. So combat feats apply 90% of the time. That's not a smaller fraction of the...

I also don't like the fact that once you choose a build option, your feats particularly tend to choose themselves through heroic, despite the thousands of feats in the game. For instance, I decide to play a dragonborn fire dragon sorcerer, 5 out of my 6 heroic feats are auto-chosen, superior...

Then they need to readjust PC surges by tier. Monsters deal so much damage, I can run a party out of surges in 3 encounters. I'm having to give them surgeless heal options, and party surge management tools so they can go another encounter or two. I'd be happy if they could do 4-5 encounters a...

In my game I have something called Faith Magic. It's for NPC's, but would conceptually work for divine PC's also. Those with Faith Magic get their power from a collective belief, sort of a shared pool of energy. The Wilden and Elves in the White Forest worship the Ancient Guardian Tree (which is...

Agreed, but perhaps that's less a fault of the assassin, and more a fault of the pinball machine.