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Really? Can you point to a description of the limitations?

I'm going to assume that you are really looking for "interesting" rather than "challenging"; it's hard to imagine your group would vote for "more challenging" if they had the choice of "more interesting". Here are some things that have made for interesting combats in our group: - Combats with...

As I wrote somewhere upthread, read most any of the books by Raymond Feist. He uses this technique repeatedly.

Alternatively, they could actually publish their findings and ask for comment, as in: (wording is obviously just handwaving) Swarm Druids don't seem to be very popular. What should we do? a. Stop publishing content for them b. Publish more fluff / support for reflavoring c. Improve the...

My experience has peaked at low paragon tier, so maybe it changes later, but my Shielding Swordmage with Double Aegis and Swordmage's Decree causing three enemies to be marked throughout the bulk of the encounter is superior to the marking ability of any other defender I have seen so far. So it...

Rapid Aegis Reaction does sound excellent, for those who can use Dragon material. Are my campaigns so unusual in that none of my DMs allow Dragon?

Call me old fashioned, but I don't consider arch demons and the like to be gods unless WotC spells out "god" in their description, and not merely as "is worshipped as a god". So "Zbggglmnnn is a demon god" -- check. "Zbggglmnnn is an arch demon, worshipped as a god by cockroaches and sentient...

Okay, you guys win. I stay away from the MM's in order to stay in the dark where my DMs prefer to keep me, so I hadn't known about it. The only one I've read is MM1, and the closest it got was Orcus.

Perhaps I've missed something, but has anything actually labelled "god" been assigned statistical data in 4e? I'm not talking about "some beings worship Orcus as a god" or the like -- I mean something like "Erathis is a god, and has the following statistics which can be used in combat against...

This problem is aggravated by the "grind" issue -- when combat encounters take two or more hours, there is a strong temptation to hurry.

I am forced to say, reluctantly, that I have slid into the "Oh my god this is a disappointing mess and not just because it needs more work" camp. Every time I go to the new CB and try to update characters I end up more and more irritated, to the point that I seriously think about going back to...

Okay, now we're just plain getting into hyperbole land. My level 12 Swordmage with Con 16 and Greater Aegis of Shielding blocks 18 damage, not 10. Also, each of those "30 damage" attacks is going "through" a mark, so they are at -2 penalty but you seem to be assuming they all hit. Further...

Or (and I go far, far out on a limb here) you can let the players enjoy a feeling of accomplishment for a while, until you notice that they seem to be getting bored with encounters that are too easy to be interesting.

It is a pretty good power, especially when used in "encounter mode", but the one thing that Swordmages do NOT lack is good utility powers. There is a lot of competition.

Hmmm, not sure we will ever make it to level 17. And we don't use Dragon material, so I just don't see too many options that do much more than Sword Burst does.

I don't normally do this, but... ***headdesk*** ***headdesk*** ***headdesk*** I'm starting to get the feeling that the real meta-issue with the CB is that WotC does not yet realize that their new publication strategy makes software development a core competency they MUST have in house.

I have found that it generally works better to "print" to a PDF, and then print the resulting PDF file. On my Mac, printing to a PDF is built-in; on my sucky old Windows box, I installed something from CutePDF and that did the trick.

Thanks for the extended answer about 3.x. I was hoping that you might comment with some specifics about the things that you believe 4e made better or worse relative to 3.x. Some of it is implicit, obviously -- 4e Epic is no longer open ended, for example. But if you get a chance to come back...

You have the items almost right: level+1, level, level-1, and additional items with a total value equivalent to a single item of level-1. I suspect that will be updated soon to take the new Common/Uncommon/Rare categories into account, though personally I won't be thrilled to see it. I can't...

Now, be nice -- new to ENWorld and may not be native English speaker.