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Hey, I see you are in Cary, NC. Did you play at Sci-Fi Genre or Lost Goblin Games?

First of all, thanks for coming here and talking with us. I hope I can make the thrust of my point without getting too verbose. Bottom Line: Flexibility and diverse options. I agree that alot of what supports the classes primary role resides in the class features. Although powers are...

I find milestones to be tedious and fiddly, and the same is true of action points. I've abandoned the milestones system and replaced action points with a similar house rule that works better for my group.

I like this idea, but I think it's been overdeveloped. For one, they are so much like the magic rituals that the only thing missing is the magic. So, in the spirit of friendly critique: Campfire Watch: Having a character awake on watch gives the party an active perception check already, and...

With respect, as a previous poster stated, there are multi-property magic items in one of the FR books, so I don't think it's entirely fair to say that, "they're not allowed". And while formulas are open to abuse, they are at least rational. A comparative method is going to fail right now (at...

Well, the OP did specifically mention properties, not powers, and most powers are limited by the milestone & tier limitations. Since you asked for 3E-inspired ideas...Weapons of Legacy i started a 3E campaign that was centered around those ideas and I have had to adapt it to 4E, so several...

Ahhh....Thank you for the ideas, I feel my writer's block crumbling. So I've also had an adventure idea to "break things up"--- Seven Samurai. En route to recover yet another item, they get cajoled into helping a town defend itself against Valenaar Raiders.

I should have also pointed out that this campaign is ongoing, so some details are fixed. The five items are the bow, sword, shield, armor, and body of an ancient hero. The basic story is that this hero died while fighting one of the claws of Khyber, but a mysterious ritual tangled his soul...

Here's the idea: My campaign is built around gathering about five items and resurrecting an ancient hero. So far they are opposed by one Dhakaani Clan that is trying to get the same items. At stake: Freeing a Rakshasa Rajah from his prison. There is an unexplored sub-plot of corruption...

Last night I tested out a method, and everyone seemed to enjoy the results: I subtracted each monster's CON score from his HP, gave each a +2 to hit and a +2 to damage. Collectively the encounter group is hitting a little harder, a little more often, but that makes up for their 1-2 hit life-span...

It might be worthwhile to consider power attack in terms of combat rounds... I didn't see this yet in the thread, so I'll bring it up. If power attack's +2 damage is not enough to reduce the staying power of a monster by at least 1 round, over the course of a combat, then why bother taking it...

I'm looking forward to buying some of these cards

Anyone get this up and running on a Mac without dual-booting into Windows?

Does anyone else think there's a case for power creep here?

How on earth do you get a standard 4E encounter for 5 players to run in 10 minutes? If a typical combat is supposed to be about 6 rounds, that's 1 min 40 sec per round, with 5 players that averages @ 30 seconds per player. Wow. To me that seems really fast. I wonder if that is because I have...

Wow, I'm surprised that no one has brought up Stalker0's two skill challenge systems. One fixes the WoTC system, and the other (Obsidian) is his own. I've been running his obsidian system in my weekly game while trying to "find my feet" with the skill challenge system. Like several others...

That is along the lines of what I would do for to make a hexblade. I'd be more likely to multiclass into rogue, but I think that really depends on how you want to flavor your hexblade.

alternately, you can easily convert defenses to 3e style saving throws and simply roll off against the PCs

I'd say the armor problem can be fixed by requiring the barbarian be in cloth, leather or hide to use his some (not all) powers. Similar to how the rogue powers often require you to be wielding a light blade, crossbow, or sling

Why not simply change the raging strike power to a backstab or hunter's quarry style class feature? Perhaps something like, "While raging you can choose to deal +2d6 damage to one target" (and scale it up just like backstab) Then you can bring all the rest of the powers back in line with...