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Well I don't really have an opinion on weither DDI is going to be worth 10$ a month (I'll probably decide not to pay it myself). But I can say that if you never subscribe to an online service that sometimes goes down, then you will never subscribe to any online service.

Rather then allowing players to retrain it via the retraining rules, it might be more reasonable to just handle it as the DM on a case per case basis if somebody doesn't like the class choices they made. As somebody else said, the game is new and letting people correct their mistakes or change...

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Their damage is really high, but their hit chance is really low. For reference they have the same chance to hit as a lvl 1 kobold skirmisher. So they are probably balanced over all, but kind of swingy and dangerous to use against a first level party.

Not to derail the thread too much, but is there any actual rule that says you can't shift while prone? It recently came up in a play and it would be really helpful to know.

I'm not aware of any reference to "moving into squares". There are however quite a few references to moving, which is what is referenced by the walking wounded power, and which the rules on forced movement make it clear your not doing on a push, pull or slide. As for definitions of what...

Interesting to note that wall of fire is worded completely differently then every other zone effect in the game (or at least every one I have looked at). All other effects use enter instead of move. By the letter of the rules, it would seem that forced movement would not in fact work on wall...

Well I actually disagree that these things should have consistent rulings because they are worded very differently. Blood pulse punishes you for leaving any square Blade Barrier and Wall of Fire punish you for entering specific squares Walking Wounded punishes you for moving. I would...

Only if the princess wants the horse to be able to use her athletics score instead of it's own. I have a hunch that the horse's might be higher anyway :)

We've been pretty much playing it like that all along in 4e, and the the rogue has been able to sneak attack on about 95% of his attacks. He doesn't do it by hiding, he does it by flanking and other forms of getting combat advantage.

Actually that is the only legitimate rules basis for your argument....your claim that the rules don't specify magical property when they talk about item slot. Because the rules outright say that if you wear bracers and a shield, you only recieve the benefit of the item you put on first, this...

Well your argument is that it has nothing to do with magical properties, that it's just that putting on a bracer innately negates a shield regardless of if there is any magic involved or not. This would mean that putting on a non magical bracer would negate your shield just as much as putting a...

Well there are a lot of ways the information could be found without it just lying around. If the grand doomsday device is vulnerable to fire, it's not at all unreasonable that a researcher or subboss you kill would have made or recieved some kind of note to keep it away from fire. They were...

Hmm it's funny, I tend to find door riddles more annoying but to each their own I guess. Actually I like the riddles themselves, it's just always hard for me to justify why somebody would take a riddle that's solvable by your average reasonably inteligent group and use it as their means of...

Hmm......you make an interesting point related the RAW. However I have a difficult time beliving it's the RAI that putting on a non magical bracer would prevent you from blocking attacks with your non magical shield.

You can be a two weapon fighting rogue. In fact almost every rogue in the game is likely to take two weapon fighting feats and fight with a weapon in each hand. What you can't be (easily) is a rogue who attacks twice as often as normal. But that's not remotely the same thing as not being able...

That's interesting, every group I've seen prefers to search as they go. In mega dungeons, the treasure and magic items you find in one area might be necesary in order to succeed in a later challenge. Plus there are things like clues, secret doors, etc that can be important for defeating the...

I'm inclined to agree about the traps, but try telling that to some players. Like you said, most places shouldn't have many traps (but the one or two they find makes players paranoid). Much more understandable is when the rogue wants to search every room from head to toe for treasure, because...

I'm not as familiar with KoTS, so I don't know how well it follows the encounter guidelines (certainly some other modules don't). But yeah the general rule is that all monsters in the general proximity should count as an encounter. Any monsters who are not in the encounter should be a good...

One thing I will say in defence of walking wounded is that it's a power usable at range that knocks it's target prone. This can be rather important for a melee class to use against fliers.