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Mostly just because the KotS cleric was built so poorly. His encounter power is almost a complete waste, and his at will powers do nothing at all if they miss. The character is largely designed to be behind the back line, supporting the front rank with short range powers. However, being...

You can (and I'm planning on doing this) reskin other monsters and just play them up as <whatever>. Drop the racial trait (shifty, goblin tactics), replace it if you need to, maybe tweak the stats and its pretty much done. Useful for me, since I'm ditching a lot of races.

Possibly. But, honestly, taking out the slinger outside so they get 3 rounds alone with the first wave inside is more or less a matter of luck. Its a target rich environment, and if he doesn't die quickly, the party is SoL inside. Plus I can't see that the one of the others wouldn't warn them...

This particular encounter seems like too much to begin with. Played reasonably intelligently, there doesn't seem any way for the kobolds inside not to have warning, and the two waves combined would be a bit much for a level one party even without the elite. I'd seriously recommend dialing it...

The drake swarm wouldn't look so bad if it was using its str bonus rather than what appears to be its dex bonus, and maybe a small die type. How would people react if the attack was: +6 vs AC, 1d6 +2, (2d6+2 if prone). Of course, I don't quite see why the stirge swarm has a +4 damage bonus...

The Chuul doesn't even come close to a certain TPK. It can be rough on party, but if you've got a defender or two and the rest of the party has ranged attacks or even a good bit of healing, 5 level 1 characters will whip it pretty handily. I've run this encounter twice. Once without a single...

I tried it out. It works pretty well. Notable consequences- you can get less people adjacent. This actually works out in the party's favor, unless you have a really big group. area effects shrink slightly. I'm honestly not to bothered by this, but a hard-core wizard player might...

The dragonborn paladin, the rogue, the tiefling warlord and either the warlock from XP or (if sticking to the KotS characters), the fighter. The warlord's wizard training and the dragonborn breath weapon will give enough area attacks to deal with minions, the warlord does healing, and you have...

The color palette doesn't help either. Between the smallness, the fog, and the dark blues and dark greens blending together, the detail is pretty much lost.

I agree with the big evil weasel, I like them better this way. Once familiar, they tell you exactly what they do, rather than have to parse it out from ranged, XXX or whatever.

Yes, as written, force orb and acid arrow are not area attacks.

Well. *pauses, clears throat* Very, very nice. I like the medium-but-not angle the aura provides, and that if you want to attempt to battle a swarm in melee, you have to effectively get inside it to do so. This is abstraction that works. The stirge swarm damage isn't that bad. It can drop a...

Yep. The cleric powers don't seem to be in error, just fairly poor power choices dependent on a low strength. This is really the kind of cleric that should be relying on wisdom-based ranged attacks, not trying to mix it up in melee alongside the paladin and the fighter.

Much weaker since it takes a standard action. On the other hand, its better than the cleric's cure light, since its encounter rather than daily. Its rather odd, really. Its weaker than inspiring word in just about every way (action cost, amount of healing, range). I guess when you just want...

And whats particularly annoying is there is a nice chunk of dead space just to the right of the ability scores' block. Tip to WotC: read before you post. Really, have someone with a book doublecheck it. Also: Tactical Presence and Tactical Assault. Why are these just slightly different...

Personally I'm quite likely to do just that. The absurd number of sentient species running around D&D Land makes me cringe. So if there are things that I really want to use, but are inherently stupid or obnoxious in numbers, they get to be uniques. People cursed by the gods, botched...

It isn't that bad, all that extra bone and that huge tail has to add some serious pounds.

I don't particularly like the layout of the sheet. Connected things are in different areas of the sheet, which is weird and I really don't like the way the modifiers are laid out. I've played with quite a few math-challenged people and having some, but not all of the modifiers lumped together...

I'd rather see beings that are more tied to their respective gods. Near-perfect looking winged humanoids whose voices carry the words of creation on their lips. They change the reality around the with a whisper, and this can lead to various effects on those who hear them, from terrible...

OK, wait. Do you mean 'you bought a copy, and you wanted to photocopy the character sheets for when you ran the module', or 'you wanted to photocopy character sheets of a copy that happened to be in the store, and use them for something else'? Because those are two very different things.