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Actually my Warlord in the game calls himself a Centurion for the same reasons-- the name warlord reminds me of those militia leaders in Africa who make little kids join their army after killing the parents... I don't mind the name "leader" for the role, but prefer being called something...

You know, our strategy has been "just asssume we have no defender"-- the problem with that being that usually no defender = people die. However we are having a new player tonight-- when he asks what he should play, I'll tell him we really need a REAL paladin!

Not to mention that the modern age has the "grittiness" & "edge" of the bronze age-- without the bughouse warped reality seen in iron-age comics where all the cops & government were evil, and heroes blew everyone's brains out. Sex & drugs are alluded to, rathre than drawn in vivid detail...

Believe me, we ALL tried to convince him of this... He won't buy it. I think he is anti 4E and says that he wants to "prove that the system is broken" by making a character concept (a dagger throwing paladin who cowers behind the wizard) that doesn't work with the system. He says, "I'm making...

NO, I am just a player in this game. That's why I got the idea for a company charter that we could use to attach strings to his share of the treasure. Here is the company charter for perusal: Feywild, Fire, & Death Company Charter We, the undersigned, in the spirit of adventure and...

Actually in every rpg I have ever played, he tends to make characters that cause problems for the group. His sense of logic is... off. For instance, in 3.x he had an epic character who was Chaotic Good. All of his characters are chaotic good (except the current who is unalligned). Anyway...

So, I have a player in my group that REFUSES to fulfill his role as defender in the party. He is a paladin-- who chose daggers as a weapon because they did the least damage (he is trying to make his character less effective for some reason). He insists on hiding in the back ranks and throwing...

So I am playing in a 4E game and one of the players is very, very unreliable in the use of his abilities. He is a paladin who insists on hiding behind wizards and throwing daggers. He deliberately chose daggers because they are the least damaging weapon. He can heal people, for instance, but...

But I had an account that worked all this week. Until today...

Is DDI costing money now? I tried to log on and it said my account was invalid or something. If not, I wonder what the problem is...

That analogy is not even close to right. A fighter loses his armor... and either spends 45gp to replace it at the next town or takes armor off the next guy he kills. He can still use all his powers without the armor too. Don't forget that if he had a Shield and a decent Dex (which he likely...

the problem is enemies have too many HP. Kobolds with 30 hp? Ridiculous. You used to kill one with a single swordstroke. Now all kobolds except minions are as tough as PCs? The reason they have too many HP is they fell into the trap of falling the same rules for monsters as for PCs on the...

Here is a nice easy broken combo using this: Rogue who multiclasses as fighter. Rogue Powers + Fighter Class Features= gross. Attack a foe with the rogue's at-will Riposte & mark him. Free attack on him if he attacks you. Free attack on him if he attacks someone else (at -2 to hit). Free...

The only problem is that in 3.5 not all master throwers were lithe & used light weapons. My Master Thrower had a high STR, Brutal Throw Feat (now unecessary in 4.0 as heavy thrown weapons add STR to hit anyway), and chucked harpoons (d10 dmg) at his enemies. Perhaps a build choice between...

Since Eladrin Soldier and Dwarven Weapons Training are my two favorite feats, to the point that I almost won't play any other race, I thought that I would even the playing field a bit by giving the other races their own weapons of coolness. Elven Archery [Elf] You have the gift of archery...

Oh no, I just used the array of 16, 16, 14, 14, 10, 8. The racial bonuses added the rest.

So it is pretty much consensus that the half-elf is the worst base race in 4.0. However there are exceptions where it can be good. I read a challenge in a thread on rpg.net that asked for someone to build a swashbuckler who is not trained in thievery skill. Here goes: Half-Elf Fighter 1...

+2 damage with longswords & spears? Eladrin, baby. And teleporting is cool too.

I am currently playing an Eladrin Warlord who uses a longspear, javelins, and a longsword. One major advantage of the longspear is being an eladrin with the Eladrin Soldier feat gives me +2 damage. A glaive or halberd would not. For warlords, the advantage is range for your powers. Some...

I wouldn't mind so much if they just downgraded them to lowlight vision-- but to normal vision-- when all the lowlight vision monsters got to keep it-- is just dumb.