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Failure of imagination is not a failure of mechanics. Also; part of the problem is that people who really love vampires expect vampires to be good at everything. So... vampires should be strong and know everything about history, in addition to being preternaturally fast, able to mind-control...

Give her a bunch of minion mooks, orcs or goblins or whatever is appropriate for the level. When they (inevitably) die, she casts a foul spell... causing them to rise as zombie minion mooks. Obviously, count both groups of minions in the XP budget. This is just a fun and flavorful way of...

I'm afraid it's getting to that point. Try to explain the difference between a Battlerage Vigor fighter and a Knight to a newbie. Although, I guess Battlerage Vigor fighters are now properly called 'Weaponmaster Battlerage Vigor fighters.' Kind of a mouthful. Or try explaining the difference...

!!! I had no idea that existed! "Must spread experience around..." but seriously, thank you. What a fantastic resource!

For classes, explore Cleric and Shaman. Those seem like your best bet for getting a dash of Controller in your Leader.

I'm really confused as to what you might mean by this. Clarification?

Eh... it would be, if enemies ever actually healed. Very, very few do. The only ones that come to mind are the old MM1 orcs (who gained a tiny amount of HP if they hit with their encounter power) and monsters with regeneration. And, I suppose, monsters with the Cleric template. But then the DM's...

Building a level 18 character. With the wacky new magic item rarity rules, I noticed that I'm sitting on a big pile of gold and have literally nothing to spend it on. Got myself 5 potions of vitality, a common head, arms, waist, feet and glove item. Still have an entire astral diamond and 36...

I got what you're saying, WalterKovacs, but two things: 1) Why just Flaming Weapon? The only explanation I can think of is they were worried about pyromancers (but then why not just change pyromancers?) or simply because they haven't gotten around to changing the other weapons like this yet...

Not to diminish your beautiful post, but I think those are legitimate concerns... and what's better, they've been addressed since your absence. Early 4e monsters were pretty severely under-powered. Basically, their defenses and hitpoints were too high, while their damage was much too low. This...

For those of you saying... "If you want a fire-themed character, just pick all fire powers!", I have to say, sure, that works fine... if you're playing a wizard. But what if you want to play a fire-themed Swordmage? How about a Bard? Or (God forbid) a fire-themed Artificer? Short answer: you...

So they need to give literally every other implement-using PC in the game who wants to make a fire-themed character the shaft all because of the pyromancer? Weak. Sauce. It's all pretty moot, though, since the Weapon of Summer trick apparently works (until that receives errata too, I'm...

Tell me about it. My planned Swordmage/Wizard was a Tiefling, too. Seriously, I conceived of this guy on Monday, built him on Tuesday, and then had my dreams dashed to pieces on Wednesday. Anyway... as to the other posters' concerns, like I said, I can understand this errata in a vacuum. What...

I direct you to this helpful fellow, earlier in the thread: So either A) it's errata or B) it's an error in the Dungeon Master's Book that's going to need errata. Either way, it's going to mess up our campaign for a good amount of time while we wait for this to be resolved.

As far as I know, it's impossible for Hybrid wizards to gain the benefits of "Mage" wizards, so that's a total non-issue. Something I forgot to mention in my OP... the guys over at the CharOp boards commonly cite the Weapon of Summer as an alternative to Flaming Weapon, but that always smelled...

WARNING: This post may descend into whiny nerdrage. Reader discrection is advised. So I'm trying to build a back-up Defender in case my current character (the only Defender in the party) dies (which has a pretty good chance of happening in our next combat... facing the big bad guy with only...

I'll take mindflayer over illithid any day, personally.

I'm not familiar with any resources for playing dragons in 4e. It occurs to me that probably the most painless way to do this without a whole lot of house-ruling would be to: -Require that everybody be the Dragonborn race, and then just 'refluff' them as dragons. -Use inherent bonuses so you...

Haha, well, clearly that thread comes highly recommended. Thanks for the link, guys.

This is encouraging to me. I have a BA in Creative Writing, but somehow it never occurred to me to try and submit anything for publication to Dungeon and Dragon until just now. It'd look great on a resume... Anybody have any advice? (Might start a separate thread for this...)