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Just to again clarify, I said "unbalanced compared to other options". I don't believe they actually break the game, though I do believe they are harmful to it. But I don't think you can deny that they aren't balanced against other options. Many other feats offer you, say, a conditional +1...

I don't think those extremes are the only options. For myself, though, I probably fall into the second camp - I think 4E at the start did a very good job of preventing an array of character options while preventing disparity from being too large. Since then, I think the potential difference...

Do we really need the insults? Yes, other modifiers exist in the game. Here's the key, though - they still exist when the feat taxes come into play. Let's go to the 55% number. Just to clarify, it isn't an expectation that this will be your bonus vs every enemy. But let's say it is the...

"Anything" outside of combat? That hasn't been my experience. Even aside from the many wilderness challenges in which the most common fighter skills - Athletics and Endurance - are applicable, most Fighters will have at least one other. Two of the remaining options - Intimidate and Streetwise -...

You absolutely have variance in power levels between characters in 4E, and the degree of difference has only grown since the start of the game. Despite this, however, 4E works hard to make it so that against an average opponent, the average character will be able to reasonably contribute in...

Argument for it being a combined Elite: -It includes both names in the stat block. -If they are each individual Elites, they are really, really, really boring ones. Argument for them being individual Elites: -That would be the normal way to read the stat block. -2 Elites makes for a...

Have to chime in here on good concept, poor execution. The mistake in Bound by Blood undercuts their primary appeal. The single stat block makes it unclear if each is a level 9 elite, or if they are intended to be a combined level 9 elite. The lack of unique abilities to distinguish the two...

It's $15, and... yeah, I consider that relatively cheap. I suppose if you were factoring the price for 5.33 friends to buy the game, I guess it adds up, but for my own personal purchase, the price is fine.

Well, yes, but some of the numbers are pretty key to how one might envision the character. Sure, I can say that my Fighter has been training with the elves and grown skilled at woodlore, but if I haven't spent my feats on Skill Training: Nature and Perception, then when I go walk into the woods...

The one on display is a cropped preview of the full one in the article itself, which is the one being commented on.

It bases various powers/feats/etc on 4E design and structure, in the same way that NWN did on 3.5 - and, in the same fashion, other elements are simplified to account for real time combat. Powers and spells recharge over time rather than requiring rest, no AoOs, etc. I think anyone familiar...

There are quite a few different approaches possible. First off, an explanation of my own position - I'm of the view that having such secondary skills competing for skill points with primary adventuring skills was a bad thing. I think that the 4E solution - to remove those skills entirely - was...

Well, the rules tell us that a creature knows when it is marked. That tells us that marking must be obvious in some way - the common idea is that it represents a fighter being in your face, and distracting you from other combatants. But, as you note, it becomes harder to conceive for those...

This is actually one of the trickier areas of the rules. If a power gives you +2 AC against a specific foe, is that a condition you've applied to him, or one that is tied to you? The answer is - it could be either, depending on how the power is worded. In this case, Riposte Strike sets up a...

At level 30, if I haven't taken Action Surge with my human, I miss out on +3 to hit once every other combat. If I haven't taken Expertise, I miss out on +3 to hit (and other bonuses) on every single attack. Seriously, I have seen plenty of characters well into Paragon who can easily get by...

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Technically speaking, the dog doesn't. It doesn't apply a condition to the dog, it gives a buff (the counterstrike) to the Rogue, and nothing says that is apparent. Its certainly reasonable to conclude it is obvious, but equally so to conclude otherwise. Look, this is overall a relatively...

Yeah - I've only used it briefly, but felt it was to good effect. I admittedly had them as beings from outside reality, rather than as simply deep dwellers, but the idea of truly alien bug people who pour forth in endless waves of creatures bred for war and linked by an incomprehensible hive...

Two monsters are in a position where they can each shift to flank a PC. If the enemies are mindless undead, even though the DM has this knowledge, he probably won't have them take this manuever. If the enemies are regular combatants, he might have one shift and take an attack, and the...