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Yeah, it was tricky getting a lightning effect with MS Paint. I figured the rough crayon look would go well with the LOLdragonz. :)

I was more referring to the assertion that 'kensai' is English. It is, as I am sure you are aware, more properly a loanword. I am not arguing for or against the porousness of English, merely that 'kensai' is hardly English.

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If the Fighter has been studying as a Wizard for nine levels, there should be some earlier indication. A couple of low level spells or something. To use doctors as an example: 8-10 years of school, another 2-4 as an intern to a specialty. After 10-14 years, they don't suddenly have the...

Yeah, but that only really moves the problem back a bit. The same thing applies, really. Why should the Ranger struggle through ten levels to get the cool Ranger stuff, and the Wizard walks up and yoinks it without having any prior Ranger experience? It's just odd that powers/skills are tied...

This is where I have a bit of disconnect. Not that I think you are incorrect about this, it is likely how it works. Rather, it seems odd that after 20 levels of Fighter, you are suddenly able to use 19th level magic. Even though the Fighter may not have so much as looked at a wand for the...

This battle is not over!! :)

To paraphrase Wolfgang Paulli: That isn't even wrong.

Depending on how much tongue you have in your cheek, that is a good point, really. My bigger concern is that it dilutes the meaning of 'kensai'. Which is much, much more than 'good with a sword'. As shorthand for an RPG, not such a big deal, really. I mean, there are more to monks and...

Bingo. (EDIT: I think 'Master of Arms' would be better.)

Yes, of course. What was I thinking?

Gah. My problem is that it isn't subtle at all. It's like getting a hammer to the face that reminds me that I am intended to be thinking like my character, if my character were to be reading a description of themselves in a fourth wall breaking book they found lying around. Something like...

You could call it 'superfighter', you could call it 'increased badassery', or you could call it 'ultra scary drunken cow'. In and of itself, the means to change it does not refute the idea there is a problem. If there was a throw away line like "... similar to a kensei", there wouldn't be much...

Yeah, worse is the descriptions they have been using since that Spell Compendium: Your god demands battle to accomplish the tenets of your faith, and you are the chosen priest at the forefront of the war. When you call upon your divine powers, your weapons glow with holy light. Whoa, there...

You, sir, have won the internets.

As well as the paladin and the warlord. I assume it won't be low level, but I do recall certain powers of the leaders will trigger a healing surge on a successful attack. With recent excerpts, that may end up being a healing surge with a bonus on a hit, and just a healing surge on a miss...

Which is why you don't use them until the healing surges are nearly or completely gone. The same way no one blows all their dailies on the first pack of kobolds of the morning. Which is why I put it in quotes. It's the same situation as one hit-one kill, just later in the day. That is the...

I think they addressed that in an earlier article about the warlord. I am sure the previously mentioned squirt gun training tool was advised. :)

Except they aren't really, until they are out of healing surges. As long as they have available healing surges (or second wind, or the warlord, or the cleric, etc), then they really aren't in danger. You have a safety net. Again, this is solved with increasing the hit points. Unless your hit...