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Yes, but not on a one-for-one basis. Meaning you don't swap out one single-target power for another single-target power, etc. You can swap out a single-target for a blast power if you want another, or vice-versa. It's about customization and optimization for your role. It's not that your...

Out of curiosity, would you allow the priest to cast it outside of combat and just keep it sustained as the group wandered about the dungeon until they found something to set it on?

Paul, You are free to design your campaign world in such a way that the world's reality exactly parallels the game rules. As others have pointed out, it would create for a variety of...unusual...laws of physics, which could be intriguing to RP. However, that doesn't invalidate others' choice...

Oh, now that's interesting. Thanks for the tip!

This is how I'd rule it. Once you are out of enemies in range, the power ends. Time to have your buddies push/pull/slide more fodder into the area. :p

At first, I found it odd that some of the higher-level powers seemed to be only slightly stronger than their lower-level abilities (or, as pointed out in this thread, actually less powerful). However, the more I play 4e, the more I'm thinking the reasoning for this is because, unlike 3e spells...

What works for me is to create the monsters I want as far as look and feel without looking up any monsters. Then I'll flip through the MM to find some stats that can be workable as that creature. In one memorable campaign, my players battled small porcelain dolls that came to life. Their jaws...

Is this character for an actual campaign, or an arena-type event? In actual gameplay, someone has to have the skills mentioned above, or the party is going to have trouble. So if your intention is that your character fill every party role, these skills would be necessary. Obviously in a...

This has nothing to do with concept. I have what is (IMHO) a very original and fun concept. However, there's a large difference between concept and mechanical effectiveness. I could come up with original character concepts all day, but that doesn't have anything to do with whether a character...

This is exactly it. Rich made a conscious decision to prioritize the strip's story over its humor at that point. I loved OotS in its first, "prioritize-the-funny" stage. It was a witty examination of the quirks of the D&D system, with other bits thrown in here or there for their comedic...

While I can see your point, our game isn't really concerned with balance between ranger variants. I'd be more concerned about the beastmaster overshadowing the rogue, for instance. Also, the pet is actually more likely to provide flanking for the rogue than the ranger, since the rogue does so...

Just find a second group and play in both. Once you've got a second, regular gaming group, you won't care so much if your current one is occasionally cancelled or curtailed, and if it isn't, you get to spend some time with--from the sounds of it--some good, long-time friends. Best of both worlds.

Thanks for the replies, guys! Currently I'm playing a beastmaster, mainly because it was the mechanic that most closely modeled the character concept I came up with. We're playing in an Iron Kingdoms (a gritty, steam-powered mechano-fantasty world) campaign using 4e rules for the crunch, and I...

Considering that the fighter is wearing solid steel and carrying around a ginormous dinner plate in one hand, while the wizard is wearing pajamas...I'd think this would be the standard NON-metagaming assumption to start with...? :heh:

Heyo folks, I'm playing in a game currently where my character is mechanically a beastmaster hunter. So far, it appears that particular powers aside, the beast's role is mainly to provide flanking to its master. Am I missing something, or is this essentially correct?

Along with +1 to AC, [Armor Specialization (Scale)] also removes the -1 speed penalty. The plate version does not. In a vacuum, I argue that the plate feat is significantly weaker than the scale feat. Adding something to the plate feat would make them equal. Others have argued (quite...

I've always thought of sustaining spells as akin to juggling. The balls are continually in motion, but that doesn't mean there's always a ball in your hand, you know? If you delay putting your hand out to catch and rethrow a ball, it drops to the ground. That said, KD seems to have outlined...

This isn't about cheese, KD. And it doesn't make plate the best at AC and speed. You have to pay an extra feat for extra AC. It just makes the endcap equivalent. But as I mentioned in my previous post, I don't even care of it's speed. It could just as easily be the -1ACP the other two feats...

It should be noted that I'm approaching this from the perspective of a class that does not begin with plate armor proficiency. So a ranger or cleric. Let's take a ranger. You're looking at: Armor Prof (Chainmail) +3 to AC Armor Prof (Scale) +1 to AC Armor Prof (Plate) +1 to AC Armor Spec...

I'm still far from rules mastery, so forgive me if there's an obvious rebuttal to my thinking here but...with the way hit points work, while Con may be better, Dex seems to be less onerous than you insist, considering that with Dex or Int you also increase your Reflex Save. Shouldn't an extra...