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The problem is that PCs aren't always balanced, skill-wise. Compare the Rogue to, say, literally any other class. I'm pretty sure I've made Hybrids that only ended up with a piddly 3 trained skills. They'd be dead meat in such a skill challenge. Also, skill challenges are generally less...

Another thing I'll mention is that the whole "4e characters at level 1 are much stronger than other editions" concept is not as true as it used to be. I think a large part of this was the increased hit points, coupled with poor MM1 monster design. When you have a ton of hit points and monsters...

It's not that the Monk is flawed, per se, it's just that it can't hold a candle to the Martial Gank Squad. So long as you're not overclocking any given build, Monks are fine, effective and fun.

"Because of my personal experience I can say that the time of entering the video game is important to the game experience. " I'm not sure what this question is asking. I can infer from previous questions that "time of entering" means the time you started playing the game, possibly in relation to...

So anybody who takes Order Adept is a fully-functioning Controller, eh?

Yeah, I don't know how I feel about it. I love the Swordmage, and I just really like the flavor of an arcane guy with a sword, so that alone tempts me into taking this class. A couple things are holding me back, though. Those melee basic-augmenting At-Wills are cool, and very controllery...

Eh... no you didn't. :p

I like how they're still getting questions about why the vampire is so crappy, haha.

Indeed, that's one of its selling points. It does a bit less damage than the Sphere in Heroic (I admit, this gulf gets higher in Paragon, but why are you still using level 1 Dailies in Paragon?) to enemies, but it does much less damage to allies (that is to say, 0 damage), which is where the...

As others have said, this is largely a matter of opinion. That said, here are my opinions! Defender: Fighter is still the king. Stickiness, decent multi-marking capability (highly build dependent, though), and easily capable of Striker-like damage all combine to make the Weaponmaster Fighter...

In my opinion, Flaming Sphere was balanced by the fact that it was party-unfriendly damage. On certain battlefields, it was difficult to deploy a Flaming Sphere without scorching your party, and monsters could seek refuge from the dreaded Sphere by pressing the attack and mixing things up in...

Heh, yeah. I think nerfing something because it auto-kills minions is a bad idea, simply because so much out there already auto-kills minions. I can understand how having minions be virtually ignored by some builds and some parties can be a bad thing for the game, but... honestly, guys, that...

Also not happy about the grab bag of nerfs. I mean, they nerfed Cloud of Daggers? I haven't seen anybody actually take that spell since the days of pure PHB I. Something about the Wall of Fire change in particular rankles me. I think it's mostly that they took something incredibly simple...

Reads through your lovely published adventure to find a note: [Monsters stats found in MM1] Runs and opens up MM1 to find a sticky note: [Please check June 2009 Errata for updated monster] Runs to his computer and opens up the July 2009 Errata document: [Please view new version of this...

My group breezed through the much-hyped tembo pair (probably because we were level 9 and they were level 5), but I seriously don't know how a party's supposed to survive 4 stirge swarms. That seemed like some pure fourthcore stuff.

Dark Sun is awesome. The Good -Captures the setting adequately, lots and lots of little places and adventure hooks are mapped out throughout the campaign book. -City-states are particularly well-detailed, and you get a pretty good sense of the culture of each one. -Combat is deadly...

Horde of titans chucking boulders.

So Neverwinter is the new campaign setting, eh? I knew they made some video games about Neverwinter, but that's about all I know about it. Can somebody enlighten me? What makes Neverwinter unique? I have to admit, I'm a little disappointed. I never got the sense that Neverwinter was anything...

Well, if this is happening in-combat, I wouldn't call for a check. The player is giving up their standard action to tie a rope to an arrow. That's a pretty hefty cost already. If you make them perform a check, and they fail, then they lost their standard action. That's almost like a self-imposed...

How can I use the Compendium to look up the creatures Summon Shadow Servant creates? Would they be under monsters? Powers?