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I started thinking about this issue fairly early in my D&D career, and I'm glad I'm not the only one. One possible outcome is that, to an average family that just suffered an accidental death of a member, it would produce an enormous collective guilt. I.E., there are means to bring your brother...

I think your system is messy, and goes in many ways against the design philosophy of 4e, but I don't think it will horribly break your game balance during play. Let your player try it out and carefully monitor for unexpected synergistic effects. FYI, you understand that using Paragon...

I love the new icons! Not a big fan of the red, however. Disturbingly clashy.

Don't you think that's incredibly powerful for a 3rd level encounter power?

Happy DMing. :)

No. Unless a power or ability specifically says it "marks," it does not. Neither WC nor HQ make any references to marking.

I'm with you. Even in previous editions I treated/revised the paladins like this.

Actually, no. The solo lockout wizard is still incredibly effective when he's not locking out solos. And the party leader (tactical warlord)? Well, he's able to do his thing regardless of who the enemy is. The point is, this party is capable of handling regular threats as well as any other...

That is not really a lot of track record to presuppose a pattern. Anyway, as far as I can tell, the cosmology "change" to Eberron is only really jarring if you look at these extradimensional spaces as immovable pieces in a 3-D figure, while losing sight of the fact that these are just...

Here are the things that affect saves for Sleep: Orb of Imposition wizard class feature (PHB, usually from -4 to -9 or so, 1/enc) Phrenic Crown (AV p.144, -1/-2/-3 to saves for Wil powers) Wizard of the Spiral Tower with Cunning Longsword (AV p.67, -2/-3/-4 to saves), or Orb of Ultimate...

The general rule is that you must attack with a weapon to use its Property. AV explicitly says this. However, the gauntlet thing goes something like this: 1) "Reckless" and "Bloodclaw" weapons have traits which are Powers, not Properties, therefore the general rule does not apply. 2) Neither of...

I think it's fine, flavor and balance-wise. It's almost unequivocally better than Sure Strike and Careful Strike, but those powers are traps anyway.

You guys crack me up. :)

Yes, I am aware of that. But my point is for the heroic tier, the Cha paladin can hover around a decent 60-70% hit rate with OAs, which is about the same as their regular attack hit rate. Yes, Str paladins can get even better with it, or take a different feat, but that's not the same as saying...

To my knowledge (and I've read pretty much all non-adventure 4e sourcebooks to date), there is no such item. I suspect that item-based ability score modifications are a thing of the past, as combat in 4e is tailored around a certain hit rate. They have avoided saying specifically that they...

Charisma paladin OAs are not all that weak. If you start with 14 Str, with Blade Opportunist, you're hitting as much as an 18 Str guy with OAs. Putting zero points into Str, you can then take HBO at 11, and you're hitting with Cha for OAs anyway. Swordmages need this feat primarily for the...

PHB, p.275.

We could discuss again such things as "what action is it to damage yourself?" and "do you consider yourself a legitimate target for your attacks?", but in reality what it comes down to is, what is acceptable for your DM and your group? There is no clear answer in the RAW as far as I've seen...

Completely agree with Saeviomagy. Case by case with each power is a valid approach, but you are in for a lot of extra balancing work. If at all possible, I believe it is best for the DM to allow the effects to occur and come up with an after-the-game-resolution explanation for why it happens...

Only a critical lack of imagination would produce a scenario where, narratively, some gold disappears and magic appears in its place all the time because the rules infer a certain equivalency. The rules are a framework for a story, not ends unto themselves.