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It's not about being "equal" with the Eladrin, a +1 reflex is functionally identical to +1 will. It's about trading a +1 to your allies for a +1 to you. +1 to a defense is also a bigger boost than +1 to a skill.

When do katanae clash? They cut through EVERYTHING!!!

And they cut things in half like a lightsaber and go KA-PWIIIINGGGG

Oversize Two Weapon Fighting. It's right there in Complete Warrior. Unless you think carrying a bastard sword in both hands is unbalanced (and it's not) you should allow it. If the flavor of carrying a bastard sword in your off hand is distastful, then change it. It's got the stats of a bastard...

Dragonborn were given a bonus to CHA because STR+CHA makes them good paladins, and their other abilities are balanced with the consideration that their stat mods are already making them exceptional paladins. The breath weapon is essentially a bonus blasting power. Clerics are better at blasto...

So you feel straightjacketed by a system that lets you do by default something that required a prestige class to accomplish? Not to sound offensive, but you've drunk the 3E Kool-Aid. If you reduce the options and normalize their power levels, it's much easier to mix them however you want...

This is literally a fluff decision on crunch, never do this. Upping WIS instead of CHA makes dragonborn literally fall into the cleric class, are you sure you want to make perfect clerics who also have a daily flame blast power? Overpowered. +1 to the group doesn't aid the elf much (some of his...

It would be impossible for someone who gets knocked out at the earliest provocation to be anything other than a source of comedy (granted it would often be black comedy, bust still comedy).

Healing/Inspiring word are functionally identical because if they weren't, the person playing the Leader class would get bitched at for having the "wrong" ability. If Inspiring Word gives an attack bonus/shift, the cleric gets bitched at when his Healing Word just gives HP's instead of a...

And it ignored hardness. Sonic orb sunder HIKE!

It's extra bookkeeping, and gives people with a low con a double-whammy, and will only actually be applicable in corner-cases. Healing surges restore HP/4 per surge, your proposed house rule is functionally identical to the current rule for a constitution score of 16 or higher, rewarding high...

This.

Because an extremely intelligent wizard can make some of the biggest booms you've ever SEEN. ("Get ready for one heck of a fireball!") But a charismatic wizard is better at imposing his will on the target ("Down, boy!") It is the nature of fluff that it describes why crunch works the way it...

Think of the roleplaying expansions that comes from a party with a rogue completely untrained in thievery and a cleric who took skill training and manages all the party's traps by finesse rather than whacking them with Dispell Magic. 3E basically hamstrung anyone who wanted to go against their...

If you absolutely despise the lack of craft/profession skills I have two words for you: background feats Blacksmith [background] Sailor [background] Noble [background] Jester [background] Scholar [background] Taking a bakground feat grants you a +5 feat bonus to any d20 roll that you can...

A +X weapon costs exactly 1/5 of a +(X+1) weapon. You can take any weapon and convert it into any other at the cost of a +1. The enchant/disenchant rituals work exactly the same way (minus the cost of the ritual). It's a balance thing.

The real question is "can you have +3 leather armor, or does making it +3 automatically upgrade it to masterwork armor?" I don't think there's an explicit answer to this. We know that warplate must have a +3 bonus, but we don't know if increasing +2 plate's enhancement bonus automatically makes...

Or the mammoth was a walking battle platform, and once the people on its back were removed it was removed from the fight. Legolas "killing" it was just a cinematic way of doing so.

To use the rogue powers you must attack with a light weapon. No holding a dagger and attacking with a bastard sword allowed.

I think the 4E DMG won't be needed by players, anymore, but it will be needed by DM's even more. XP allotments per level, treasure parcels, explicit algorithms for creating monsters. All are important for creating adventures. If there's one less book I have to reference during play, so much the...