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Actually, I was surprised to find that all the Item Set fluff is in the CB. When you select one of the Item Sets in the shopping tab, you can see the fluff in the right hand pane. :)

Yeah, that would have been super-sweet. I'm guessing it probably wouldn't have fit though (assuming they wanted to include it). That sort of thing can easily fill a book of it's own!

Alternative Rewards, Item Components and Organisations! Sweet... I'm really looking forward to this book. I think the sample alternative rewards make a nice change from "kill them and loot the bodies". :)

In my opinion, yes, for a few reasons I elaborated in another thread: The character builder is usually considered a more correct source than the printed books because it incorporates errata. 4e (especially when played with power cards, which are generated by the character builder as default)...

That just speaks to the activity of the threads... a very very noisy/chatty posters can easily disguise a small community by this metric. Just because Magic is talked about more (or at least more often) online, it doesn't necessarily follow that the online community is bigger. Maybe I'm in a...

Right, except that the person with the best disguise using his skills on someone else is a fairly regular occurance (at least as far as disguise checks go), and I certainly have - and would continue to - allow another character (the disguiser) to make a skill check on behalf of another character...

That's exactly my point. It isn't enough of a bonus, given the opportunity and actual costs involved. Even without Skill Focus, assuming a party of 5 PCs, that's 4 assistances the primary roller can call on when making a straight skill check (that he can't call on when using a MP), even...

That is a good point, and one (with my D&D blinkers on) that I hadn't considered... So looking at the official "product" groups, I can't see one for Avalon Hill or the Star Wars RPG (or any other WotC "products" for that matter). There appear to be 2 product related ones - D&D at just under 700...

I certainly am, and I know that most of my gaming group are as well. Not that most of them were the sort to buy the books anyway, except for the PHB and possibly the power source book for their current character. Though a couple of them don't even own 4e PHBs (and certainly not PHB2s, even...

Seems to me the relevant statistic then is the size of the DDI group compared to the size of the WotC Community. I.e.: ~8000 out of ~174000, or under 5%... that still seems sort of poor to me. That on the other hand may explain the small number. Were some DDI subscribers not automatically...

Wrong. You're totally taking it out of context. As I said above, that +5 bonus has the cost of a feat (two if you aren't a martial class) plus a healing surge and 50gp every time you want to use it. It also has the hidden cost of not being able to get assistance from the other PCs on the roll...

Hmmm... not too sure I see the correlation. Disguise, Forgery and Pantomime? Not exactly the things monks are known for... :)

Does not compute, as the full rules have been published online so there is nothing stopping anyone with DDI access from using it in their games right now. Edit to add some context (not that the snarky reply really deserves it): by "in practice" I meant "when you consider everything that would...

Exept that, in practice, that is exactly how this MP works. I think I elaborated the reasons why pretty well in my post above, so I won't repeat myself.

Like most things 4e, there are rules available but they're very light on fluff elements. The core of what you're looking for are the vehicle rules in Adventurers Vault. Chris Perkins has also written some additional rules (specificaly for ships) for his Iomandra campaign. That's about the sum...

Here's the thing though - it really doesn't (allow you to do things in an exceptional fashion). I see how the disguise one could be considered slightly better (due to the +5 bonus), but lets look at the cost to a character of doing it: A feat to even have the *ability* to get that +5 bonus, plus...

Nope. Two feats - one for the martial MC and then a second for the Practiced Study feat. The Practiced Study feat does have the advantage that it comes with one "pre-learned" practice.

I really don't like them either, but for another reason: They are treading on the toes of roleplaying & skill checks/challenges. Of the three examples given: Create a disguise:I would rule this as a simple Bluff vs Insight check, or perhaps skill challenge if particularly important or involved...

Couldn't agree more. While I'll reserve judgement on the Caves until we see the final product, when I read that each "cave" will be between one and three encounters my heart sank. The last thing I want to see in Dungeon is just a bunch of delves with a flimsy story linking them. So it sounds...

There is also a d20 version with the same fluff (and about 90% of the book is fluff). It has a funky glow in the dark cover and is likely more available than the Alternity version. :) If you're willing to accept more modern/sci-fi settings, I'd also add Delta Green (Call of Cthulhu) which is...