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Not exactly. There's also this combo, if you're a Pursuit Avenger: Distracting Flare -> move behind superior cover -> enemy moves away from you to another PC (since he has no idea where you are now) -> easy way to get Pursuit Avenger damage bonus.

Wait, wait, that's not how it works at all. (Just kidding, you're exactly right.)

Quite frankly I don't think it would affect the balance of power that much. Feats per se don't really scale hugely, as they tend to augment other game elements that do scale. Give it a shot.

Back when it was Eric Noah's 3rd edition rumor site or whatever it was called. It's a little depressing just how long ago that was (where'd my years go?)...

I don't think so, other than some of the (excellent) player-made class handbooks in the WotC CharOp forums. It would be nice, but I'm not sure it would be entirely necessary - it's pretty hard to shoot yourself in the foot in 4e as long as you put your 18 post-racial score in your main ability...

So it appears as if the upcoming Class Compendium: Heroes of Sword & Spell has been pulled. No mention of it anymore in the product calendar, and previews have been removed. It's too bad, I was sort of looking forward to a consolidated update of the classes.

Well, the most obvious thing is necrotic resistance + the first ability. With said resistance, the sword has an equivalent of a huge +something damage. If the PC has no resistance, then it's nigh-useless as it will burn through his hp no time. I guess I'm curious if you're actually intending on...

Yep, this is pretty much what I go by, Mengu. I find somewhere between Level +2 and Level +3 is that border between "extremely challenging but fun" and "just plain irritating".

I hear you, this is a problem. I would say most of the crunchy bits of the DMG are outdated now. I have been keeping up with every update and book so it's not so much a problem for me, but I'm sure I'd be pretty confused if I were a DM just picking up 4e. I guess I'd point those people toward...

Actually, this sort of experience was exactly why the math was reworked. Your DM needed +X level monsters because even level monsters were not significant threats; however, using +3-5 level monsters means your PCs will be missing a lot more than they should. The new math fixes that so that even...

Why does there need to be a metagame warning? There are no longer mechanical consequences for supposed "alignment violations," only story ones. So let the PCs do what they want and the consequences fall where they may. Or if you as a DM are uncomfortable with it, just tell the players you don't...

Doesn't matter who's right or wrong. There's a pretty serious problem in group dynamics here and it's time to part ways.

Naw, this is from Divine Power.

Sounds like a great campaign! We always have a tough time pulling together a coherent story for a whole tier. Let us know how the paragon tier goes.

Hi, your current incarnation is correct. When a creature is grabbed it is Immobilized, not Restrained, and does not grant combat advantage.

It's not weak, because: 1) It's free, and 2) It provides a certain measure of guaranteed success for in-combat skill checks, when taking 10 would otherwise be unavailable.

This is not true; remember, "Hunter" is not a class. "Ranger" is. Therefore a human hunter should be able to take any Ranger 1st level at-will as an extra.

I would consider that cloak almost required for a Warden, so, good choice.

Yes, plus 1/2 your level. So, d20 + 11 vs. target's Will, in your case.

In light of a thread a few posts back on this forum, and a slight mangling of my status message, I decided to show you one of my Photoshop creations - Tacosalad? No! Behold, the tacoslaad! (Original image of slaad, copyright WotC)