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Main issue I see: a Defender styled in this way would be useless against solos. Or against the last monster standing in any given combat.

I agree that there needs to be a greater level of description and roleplaying when it comes to skills. I think one of the (many) pitfalls of the skill challenge system is that puts skills in a very limited box. It says, "PCs can use Diplomacy to convince the duke that this is a bad idea for one...

My Hybrid Swordmage is going to cry himself to sleep at night, though.

Because after 13 iterations, they still can't make one that's a halfway decent striker. *dodges a tomato*

I am the Character Builder's willing slave.

Thoughts: Explorer is excellent. A powerful option, to be sure, with very useful features, but not in any way overpowered. I quite like it. I especially like the difficult-terrain dependent encounter power they get. I sometimes feel like difficult terrain isn't interesting, and turning it to...

I actually agree with this, to an extent. "Psychic damage" for any class other than possibly a wizard or psion is sort of my personal immersion-breaking bugbear. While Vicious Mockery gets a pass for sheer novelty ("You say something so vile about that orc's mother that his HEAD EXPLODES!"), the...

Eh, this is easier said then done, I think. Does WOTC keep a 'backlog' of errata changes anywhere? Could I really get "Cleric Rules Circa July 2010" from Wizards if I really wanted it? I think you're expected to play by WOTC's rules, or else you're in for a lot of research and a massive...

Well... seeing as how it's a new mechanic being introduced into core 4e, I think the folks over at WotC kind of expect us to incorporate it into ongoing campaigns. It'd seem silly to introduce this new content and then disallow all ongoing campaigns from using it. Obviously they're intended to...

Pardon my ignorance, but what's a psychic warrior? A battlemind?

I love the Guardian. I agree the level 10 is going to be problematic... this is a crunch article, I really don't think phrases such as "generally speaking" should appear anywhere in it. Let's be clear when it comes to rules, please. But I love their level 1 Encounter! Being able to negate an...

Forums are lookin' fine to me. Really just seems like somebody miss-linked the actual attachment, and nobody in the Wizards offices has noticed yet.

You are incorrect, sir.

What I don't get is why they're renaming classes that don't have Essentials versions. I can understanding renaming classes to avoid confusion, but it seems to me that renaming Warlord to Marshal is just creating confusion, when there's no Essentials-version of the Warlord with which to confuse...

Now this is more like it! Although I forsee players making stupid, pointless skill checks in order to "cut through the chaff" of the Seer's ability. But then, I guess that's sort of the point. If you know you're going to roll a 1, then you're probably going to go with a basic attack over a Daily.

Githyanki are good, provided your DM lets you use them. They're a Monster Manual race, not really intended to be used by players. Run it by your DM first. I'd personally allow it, but your DM may feel differently. Since it's a MM race, there's very little 'support' for it, meaning you won't...

Have a necromancer approach the party, and make a big show about casting some sort of horrible ultimate spell of evil. Describe in detail how the sheer evil of it almost knocks the party cleric/paladin/avenger out with its sheer malevolence. Reality itself seems to warp as shadows flit at the...

The reason I don't like blatantly underpowered choices is because people who are new to the system are unlikely to recognize that it is blatantly underpowered. When a new player joins the game and picks the Animal Master theme, they're probably imagining lots of crazy adventures with their...

Thanks... this is an excellent point, and exactly why the whole "It's not a problem because you can just house rule it" attitude irks me so much. Some settings don't have that luxury, whether it's LFR, a DM who's very by-the-books, or a new DM with new players that hasn't yet realized they even...

That's cold comfort, though, when in many, many adventures, your character doesn't get an extended rest until after they slay the big bad and leave the dungeon. If your animal companion gets ganked in the first round of the first encounter, then congratulations, you're screwed! Making it work...