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An attack is not a check. An Intelligence check is things like "Do you remember the name of the guy you meant three years ago on the temple steps?" They are very limited in most campaigns.

You could make it a bit more feasible by throwing in a surprise round...

Yeah, you know what? I don't buy it. Dwarven Clerics are awesome. With Wis 18/Cha 16/Con 14/Str 12/etc. post-racial, the Dwarf has one less point of healing or other benefits from the Cha-secondary powers and feats, but can take Dwarven Durability at Paragon, netting two extra surges and 2...

But it can be oh so right, witness the final episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Admittedly, that was using what would probably qualify as an Artifact... (I just discovered Buffy earlier this year and can't stop evangelizing the awesomeness of the show. I wish it had aired when I was a...

It's all a matter of perspective. How many of us remember showing up at a party dressed far too casually or formally because no one thought to tell us what type of party it was? (Never me, of course -- I'm always the belle of the ball.) Your characters sound like fun. I'd love to see them in...

Is that true? See this post.

This post belongs in the General RPG discussion, if it belongs anywhere at all. It has no content specific to 4e rules, fluff, or design concepts. It also comes perilously close to meriting the label "troll", but that decision is ultimately up to the moderators. OP: You seem to want to stir...

Probably because the ability to use Second Wind as a minor action and the existence of feats like Dwarven Durability to increase surge effectiveness make the Dwarf less likely to need to peform self-healing and or miss a turn due to being unconscious. You can't heal someone else if you are...

Which traits are eligible for trade-in? Extra at-will? Extra feat? Extra skill training? +1 defenses?

If by "follow the guidance" you mean "do what the CB suggests", you are mostly right. But the current version of the CB makes some really dumba** suggestions, like suggesting you take a feat that gives a +1 feat bonus that won't stack with a feat you already have.

When you say "Essentials only", do you mean literally only builds from those books, or do you mean only material from those books? Because some builds look quite different when you kit them out with feats and weapons from the other books. Slayers want Fullblades, Knights want Craghammers or...

I hear what you are saying, and I suppose it would have helped if I had explained why I used the phrase. I believe that the most successful builds in the first Essentials book (which are the ones that I am most familiar with) are the Thief, Knight and (to a lesser extent) the Slayer. Although...

Thanks. I could have sworn I had tried wildcards and failed to get results. It would be handy if they had a Help link on that page, or even better, examples.

As some of you may have been able to infer from my previous posts, I am a big fan of the Essentials Warpriest. But as I waiver between making my next character a Warpriest or a Knight, I find that I keep getting stuck on the issue of ease of play. While the Essentials Knight is very easy to...

If you search for feats with the string "expertise" in the compendium, it will find them -- you just have to sort through them for the right one. But one trick that you might have missed is that the search function is by whole words only. So if you searched for "expert" it won't find what...

You have noticed that Augmenting Whetstones grant an enhancement bonus, right? So a typical low Paragon character, who likely has a +3 weapon already, needs a +4 whetstone, which costs 1800 gp? I don't know about your campaign, but the 13th level characters in my group do not have an extra...

You sound like me. My non-human characters probably end up seeming pretty human to the other players, though honestly that is usually the case with their characters as well. Only those who can do good "character voices" seem to be able to convey the otherness of the non-human.

I had the impression that the OP had all the help he needed after the first page or so. The digressions aren't ideal, but that's the way forums work, even here in the blissful tranquility of ENWorld, where topics like ******** and ***** are understood by all to be off limits.

I don't doubt what you say, but "the game" is a very malleable concept, as is "works just fine". DMs can easily adjust to lower character attack bonuses by not using many Soldiers, or by scaling encounters down a level, or handing out weapons with higher bonuses. Alternatively, if the party...

I assume that requires getting three crits? Because that's quite a stretch for "potentially".