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Well, if you recall, once upon a time (2nd Edition), D&D almost had this. You had the classes grouped into Warrior (Fighter, Paladin, Ranger), Rogue (Thief, Bard), Priest (Cleric, Druid) and Wizard (Mage, Specialist, Wild Mage, Elementalist). Granted, this was more about a loose grouping of...

Hybrids from Dragon 400 aren't in the builder yet, right? Because I don't think they behave the way you think they do. For example, you've got a paladin encounter power in your build at level 7. Blackguards don't get to choose paladin encounter powers. So I'll be very surprised if hybrid...

That already exists in 4e as the high crit property, which all three picks already have. Psuedo-Brutal on a crit I could see, but I'm not sure how helpful that would be. Targeting another defense is out (that's a paragon-tier martial feat, and for picks it happens to be Fortitude). Maybe...

Yup. Ossassin for original assassin. Essassin for essentials assassin. Is it me, or doesn't it seem like this exact thread comes up every 6 weeks?

If I were a betting man, I'd wager Flail Expertise will toss a slide (or increase slides by) 1 on flail attacks. Polearm Expertise will probably have some defensive benefit. Not sure about Pick Expertise. Extra damage on charge/combat advantage/bloodied has already been done, but pick seems...

I played an elven hybrid Cleric|Ranger for a while. Worked pretty well as a striker with off-healing support. The group I'm DMing for right now has a gnome Psion|Bard because the player wanted to be a controller but was afraid we'd come up short on healing with an artificer as a leader...

But my gnome already has a Mul mount that he rides into battle. It kicks like a mother too.

Post-Essentials 4e continues to unabashedly steal from BECMI. Tall Tales of the Wee Folk - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia This already happened in 1989.

From the perspective of a fan of the 4e system (and a gearhead when it comes to RPG rules) - no worries. We're at the point where 4e has become robust and mature enough that there are lots of things you have to keep in mind when building and designing. It's very easy to forget something or...

The bladesinger is absolutely underpowered as a controller. Because it's a striker. I just posted a pretty basic, vanilla bladesinger build in the Neverwinter thread that achieves an average damage of 179 on a nova round at 11th level. This only gets worse as you level up and get access to...

Except it's not. A Wizard (Arcanist) or Wizard (Mage) is what a controller should be. A Wizard (Bladesinger) is a striker that somehow got inexplicity labeled a controller and wasn't fixed in editing or playtest. Yes, I know the bladespell powers all have a slight control rub added on to them...

This popped up in a Rule of Three about a month ago. Dungeons & Dragons Roleplaying Game Official Home Page - Article (Rule-of-Three: 07/18/2011) Basically, it was "canceled" because they decided to do some additional playtesting/revisions on it before release. Supposedly it's a Hobby/Game...

It seems like you can view it as one of two things: Bladesinger's don't have dailies. They have encounters that can only be used once per day. Bladesinger's have dailies that just happen to be encounter powers for a normal wizard. Option 1 would poo-poo the tome trick, but open up Enlarge...

Okay, let's use Tempus for example. Say there's the Warpriest "Tempus" domain in the book. And, upon examination, everything in the class abilities granted by Tempus reads that it's the War domain. Then call it War. Why go through the trouble of: Creating a list of domains Mapping the list...

Personally, when you have a class built around the idea of having different class features keyed off of domains and have far more domains without options available to that class, I'd think it was a better design idea to, I don't know, finish designing all of those domains before you go making...

Actually, since a bladesinger has a spellbook, Arcane Implement Proficiency (Tome) is a really good use of a feat for them. Because of, ya know, those tomes that let you add honest to goodness wizard dailies to the spellbook of a wielder. It's about the only trick WotC didn't lock the...

Here's the problem with judging a leader by it's healing: Healing, and therefore winning by grinding out monsters, is not only not fun, it's not a tactically sound choice in the world of MM3/MV monster rules. They simply dish out too much damage for any healer of a caliber less than a...

These seem to be the general consensus at the WotC CharOp board (and why): Best Defender: Fighter (Weaponmaster). Why: Stickiness through Combat Superiority. Lots of ways to buff their mark and their opportunity attacks that demand attention. Insane feat/power support that only the wizard...

I'll reserve judgement on the class until I see it in play at the table (which I will, since I've played an elven fighter/mage in every edition so I see an eldarin bladesinger in my future), but I have some thoughts about this I haven't seen come up yet. It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a...

I think I heard over on the WotC board the idea was to make it and the Warlock update final for the end of July. Could be misremembering the part about the hybrids though. After having a chance to play around with these more, I think the biggest thing the article needs is lots of...