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I was thinking of the feat Coordinated Explosion (PHB2, heroic) which states that: "When you use any implement power that creates a burst or a blast, you gain a +1 bonus to attack rolls against the power’s targets if at least one ally is within the burst or the blast." In the case of the...

The one I wonder about is this -- is an ally that is inside the square defined by the burst still considered "inside" it if they are excluded from the effect by some special case, such as the Storm Sorcerer's powers that can exclude the center square, or the Wizard epic feat Spell Accuracy?

Regarding encounters as "bubbles": I suspect I know what the OP is talking about, and it has to do with how long combat encounters are. When a combat encounter takes two hours to complete and you only have a couple of them in a session, they become their own special context. This is especially...

I love the idea of a Conan game -- good luck with it! One of my favorite parts of the Conan books is the way that magic is treated -- it's exotic, mysterious and dangerous. One of my complaints about D&D generally is that it makes magic too commonplace. Unfortunately, it's hard to do...

Don't feel bad. I'm just surprised no one else got to it first.

Sorry about that. The link actually points to an article about Blink Dogs. To read about Displacer Beasts, click your cursor about 6 feet to the left of the link. Or maybe to the right.

Any low-Con, non-Defender melee character would be wise to at least consider Durable at some point: Rogues and TWB Rangers are the obvious cases. It's especially true if you have one or more characters in the party who can easily trigger surges. That's valid. I don't know about worthless...

Just be aware that your Rogue can get very dead from nothing but regular attacks, if though every OA misses. Also, if you provoke enough OAs, some of them will still hit, and many of the ones that hit will be crits. I found that out the hard way.

Or, as we say in the world of observing how software managers usually behave, pick 1 so long as it happens to be "cheaper".

Again, I left out multiclass feats, skill training, weapon and armor proficiency, and weapon expertise and focus because I wanted to talk about the feats that no one talks about, but that have been around since the first printing of the PHB -- feats that WotC thought were so obvious and basic...

Sure, of course. I just thought it would be interesting to dust off some old feats and see how people feel about them after all this time. Not much point to doing that for feats that have already generated a gazillion comments.

True, but I think most current DMs have a lot of experience running combats through multiple editions of D&D, and as a result are pretty good at it. Skill challenges are basically a new thing that a lot of DMs know they ought to include (like they should be eating more vegetables) but haven't...

Interesting list. Mine is similar, but I usually find an excuse to squeeze Toughness in at level 8 or 10.

It would only be fair, but it would leave me stuck in the situation I have now, which is struggling to find Encounter and Daily powers that are truly more useful than Sword Burst for my Shielding Swordmage.

It's an interesting concept. Anything that makes it less of a chore and more of a roleplaying experience would be good. As it is now, every time I hear "this is a skill challenge", I groan inwardly and fix a false smile on my face. Worst of all are the skill challenges that help you avoid a...

Wow, that's interesting. I know you post analyses here a lot, but I'm not sure how much you actually play. Would you mind sharing with us what feats you normally do take?

Well, I left off all of the "feat tax" feats purposely. They have been discussed to the point where excrutiating boredom is bitching about the dead horse being beaten outside its door.

Are those Rogue-only, or available to everyone? Either way, wow. It seems to suggest that WotC really wants you to be able to get CA without flanking, so long as you are willing to pay for it. For example, Hidden Sniper should give most Warlocks CA just about every turn so long as they use...

I'm playing around with a Dex+Con build for an Essentials Thief, and I like Half-Orc for it better than Halfling.

Check out the Invincible Vanguard epic destiny in MP2... It will make you desperate to get to level 21.