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Thanks for all the replies so far folks! In regards to the concerns of balance and whatnot about different mechanics, I should have put a disclaimer that I really have no desire put these different mechanics into play. I'm just really curious to see how others would want the different power...

After having read the D&D kitbash thread, it reminded me of one thing that I did enjoy from 3E. That was the differing mechanics between some of the 'power sources' in that edition such as Incarnum, Psionics, Shadow magic, etc. While I do like the streamlining that 4E introduced, I did wonder...

Not to sound rude, but I am -well- aware that rangers already have two style (ya know, having read the book and all, it was kinda obvious). My question pertains to whether or not people wold like to see the ranger given -more- styles, such as sword and board or zweihander, whether it would be a...

I was reading on the WoTC boards a thread about the Martial Power book, and someone mentioned an aspect of the ranger I hadn't thought of before. What they said is that in general the ranger anymore is now like a striker that focuses in one fighting style, and they wouldn't mind seeing options...

I think he may have been having the character apply first aid to themselves. I'm AFB so i don't know if you can. One thing I've gotten out of this is that now I have precedence for allowing a generic feat along the lines of Intelligent Blademaster for other classes.

You know what I find funny? Prophecy of Doom is letting me decide when I crit once per encounter...as a STANDARD action spent doing only that. I'm well aware of the DO's ability to gain a move and standard action from an action point, but I'm still only seeing this combo as netting me a move...

I think people are misreading the warsmith background. It only says you can cast creation rituals as if you had the ritual caster feat. It doesn't mention anything about automatically knowing said rituals. So basically its worth only part of a feat, and thus seems fairly in line with what...

Honestly, I don't buy it being there for a ranger who wants to use a two-handed weapon or such. That's not what you play a ranger for, you play the ranger because you want to play a two-weapon fighter, or because you want a ranged warrior. Yes, I'm aware that we don't really have a two-handed...

I honestly wouldn't be surprised to see adamantine, mithril, and other special materials handled like other weapon enhancements. Such that adamantine would most likely bypass a certain amount of resistance based on its enhancement bonus or such.

Like others, I'm really looking forward to the Swordmage as the warrior-mage, gish, etc. archetype is my favorite. Along the same lines, I would love to see an arcane striker that could mix melee and range and was a little more generic in flavor than the warlock. Probably something like an...

Sorry if someone else already mentioned this, but does anyone else see the potential for diseases to become one thing in a list of 'long-term effects'? As others have mentioned such a list could include grievous wounds, taint, neuroses, even long term poisons. Heck, I'm thinking of making a...

I didn't realize it before until the other day, but as has been said before and elsewhere, Dragonborn really have an affinity stat-wise to a lot of the classes. Major one include: Inspiring warlord (as mentioned) Melee cleric, with strength as primary and cha as support (at least I think I...

Just had a question myself and after reading the section on saving throws, it didn't necessarily clear the situation up. Say, in the example of the medusa, that you fail the first save and are now immobilized. If you then make your save against the immobilization, are you still slowed until you...

Ahh whoops, I forgot a to mention this was all hypothetical. As in, if each subsystem could be theoretically balanced against each other, how would you like to see them differ? Do note that I really do like 4e and I like the streamlined system we now have, and that multisystem game is much...

I had a thought the other day sparked by comments I had seen about how some felt the 4e classes were all too similar and that others missed the mechanical differences between classes as well. Which got me thinking, what if classes were made to have a different feel based on power source...

Probably a silly question, but looking through the warlock powers, I was left wondering, do the effects based on pact happen as well as the effects that happen if you hit? For example the power Harrowstorm slides the target 5 squares on a hit, and then says for the infernal pact that you slide...

I know for one that I'm going to be treating the background skill like the General Knowledge skill from Savage Worlds, and just have my players mark down Background[Whatever] in their skills section. This, like others have mentioned, will provide a +5 bonus on d20 checks that relate to...

I don't have books or torrents so the following is merely conjecture on my part, but I did have one thought/question about the elusive usefulness of Careful shot/Sure strike. Has anyone done a thorough look through the books for 'rider effects' that one would want to make absolutely certain...

Just to expand a bit, WoTC has stated they will not be providing any guidelines on how to convert from 3E to 4E because its essentially impossible to directly convert. I never saw the conversion booklet myself, but I can say that I haven't really heard anything good about it. As mourn said...

Not sure if this will help anyone, but I was reminded of something from the 1E PHB concerning half-orcs. It had a little blurb about how only about 10% or so of all half-orcs were sufficiently human enough (i.e. intelligent and possibly civilized enough) to be able to function in society, or...