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I agree in principle to this, but not entirely. It's going to depend on what you, as a PC, decide is going to be your knight's specialty. Let's pretend for a moment your knight is a Knight or a Weaponmaster. Your ideal party role is drawing a front line against monsters, which means staying...

Pie in the sky, but wouldn't it be neat if out of print WotC products would move over to print on demand?

Not a Forgotten Realms fan so I won't comment on that, but I wanted to pop in and say something about the Character Builder and Monster Builder. See, in programming - especially WEB programming - there's this philosophy called "First Release." Basically, the idea is get the product out the...

Original Assassin, meaning the assassin as presented prior to essentials. In contrast to the Essassin (Essentials Assassin, a.k.a. the Executioner).

The real reason we haven't seen a lance is because mounted combat was greatly marginalized in the 4e rules set out of the box. You got one feat in the PHB that promised some sort of nebulous benefit without any details. A little later you got a basic array of mounts in the Adventurer's Vault...

Here's a quick snapshot of defenders, FWIW. Fighter: They play out like soldiers (e.g. high defense, high attack bonus) with either a secondary striker or controller lean. With a spear + shield style you can get into all kinds of push/prone fun with polearm momentum. If you have the Con for a...

For those wondering about the June errata, apparently its supposed to be up today and will be minor, as the "large" portion of the errata was the playtest Warlock article from earlier in the month (which is supposed to arrive in its final form this month).

To be fair, there are two different types of updates, and I feel differently toward each. Type 1: Updates to fix broken/unbalanced things I appreciate this type of update. Sometimes things that seem perfectly viable on paper or in a closed playtest prove to be problematic when released to the...

Or taking a trip to the vast, gray area of, "Did I just violate my terms of service?"

Rationally, I consider a "core" race to be something strongly linked-to or rooted-in traditional myth or folklore. Half-elves and half-orcs get the nod because of their long-time association with the FRPG setting (though in my own personal game, I'd drop them both and lose the whole what race...

A bit late to the party, but I always thought the biggest issue with a monk's unarmed attack ability was the fact that none of their powers did [W] damage... I sort of remember the playtest version did weapon damage, but I think that got changed due to the result being monks armed with...

My "strawman" was in response to McGrendaline's comment: Like I said, differences in guidelines between Guardian and Greatweapon versus Knight and Slayer. See Warrior, Fighter or Paladin or Ranger, Advanced Dungeons and Dragons 2nd Edition Player's Handbook. I know that's not everyone's...

Man, if he had that much of a problem with you throwing a rock for 1d4+4 damage, I wonder what he would have thought about the barbarian PC I DM for jumping down a ladder, grabbing a monster on the back, pulling them off, wrestling around in mid air to get on top, and riding them down until they...

If we make two assumptions, namely: A retro-clone of 4e could be legally made without losing much of the system in the process. This retro-clone was meant to be a single, unified ruleset Here's what my retro-clone of 4e would look like. For classes, I think I would present a blend of the...

So is that the hangup? That you open the PHB1 and under Fighter you see a set of rules and guidelines to create either a Guardian or a Greatweapon Fighter, and then you open HotFL and under Fighter you see a set of rules and guidelines to create either a Knight or a Slayer Fighter, and because...

Quick review because I'm late on the scene. When WotC published 3.5e as an update to 3e, they: Changed the rules for weapon sizing Changed the rules for monster sizing Significantly altered many monster abilities, types, and abilities granted by types Completely re-imagined the ranger into a...

Yes, but one of the class abilities of the vampire is you become undead. So you're no longer meet the "living" portion regardless of race. The CB is not a rules source/proof of something being "legal." (Mainly because it's prone to having bugs or things not implemented correctly. Like being...

A vryloka with the Vampiric Heritage feat checks out. A revenant (vryloka) with the Vampiric Heritage feat also checks out. A vryloka or revenant (vryloka) Vampire with the Vampiric Heritage feat does not check out. Vampiric Heritage requires you to be a living creature. Once you take the...

Yeah, solos are definitely a concern under that model. My thought was this would be an e-Style class, so it would have the Defender's Aura rather than a true marking mechanism so in order to trigger the punishment the creature would need to be in the aura anyway. I was trying to come up with a...

Quick background: I'm prepping a deliberately "old school" vibe campaign for when the current one finishes/goes down in flames and I'm looking at using Essentials classes only (because of their old school themes). But there are certain concepts that are missing. One of which is the berserker...