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All the theory talk is interesting, but it's been done before ... I too would love to see an answer to the question that was asked in the original post, viz.: has anyone actually tried it in 4E, and how did it work out?

You're not the only one.

Nope.

Executive summary: every class has several good choices of race that give bonuses to some of their key stats, but some races (dragonborn, human, halfling) have more viable class choices from this perspective than others (half-elf, eladrin). I'm not sure anything less obvious is established by...

Hey! Zero is an amount! :D

You all need to take a closer look at the 'south' face of the d8. This is not theft, just coincidence. Quite a bizarre coincidence (the matching top number especially), but they did not use the exact images from the FG screencap ...

I imagine this has been discussed before, but I can't find it ... I'm working on converting a homebrew setting, and I'm a bit stuck on the deities. I have quite a few, you see ... I've assigned & renamed the existing feats giving deity-specific Channel Divinity options, and now I'm at the point...

There has been a spirited, but in no way heated, discussion on my group's private message boards. We're mid-campaign with 11th level characters and a solid story arc still ahead of us, and nobody's excited enough to switch horses mid-stream. We'll likely try to work in some Pathfinder and/or...

PHB 3.5 pp. 153-4. Correctly spelled as coup de grace in all instances. PHB 4 pg. 288. Correctly spelled as coup de grace in all instances. Internet, virtually anywhere: misspelled in many amusing ways.

Especially given the role dinosaurs would generally play in a game. "You #$&@:close:^$ ! You killed Littlefoot!"

Wow--that sure fell to page 4 quickly ... One bump, then I surrender to the tides.

He isn't going to be denied use of it, he'll just be limited to using it on the lesser opponents until they're cleared out. This is another cinematic flavor thing--the heroes rarely get to skip the mooks. You've got to blast some stormtroopers before you get to fight Darth Vader! And the 4E...

Under standard English usage, this phrasing would refer to the next turn, not later the same turn.

My impression of 4E so far (which is admittedly meager) is that it's a lot easier to tell that you're in over your head before the situation gets hopeless. If you accidentally started a fight with a critter 6 or 8 CR above your level, two-thirds of your party ends up missing a save-or-die in the...

I don't see that anyone's done this one yet ... Fortunately, my current game is sticking with 3.5, so I don't have to try to convert my jaebrin bard to 4E. Although oddly enough, it's the core bard part that would be tough--the jaebrin race moves over pretty neatly. *************** Jaebrin...

It's ranged, and is a reaction rather than using one of your precious actions. That helps it a bit, but I'd agree that it's suboptimal. (I reserve the right to change my mind after seeing it in play, though!)

Shrug. This is a very hard thing to do. I've worked for quite a few big companies, and I doubt Hasbro is much different. The WOTC marketeers could wave all of the pre-orders and survey results in front of the execs that they wanted, and any requests to increase the size of the initial print run...

How nice--two clear, definitive, completely contradictory answers. Anybody got a page number? ;)

Smart-ass. :p Just to clarify (for me and the other six people on the Prime Material who haven't managed to either buy or download the core rulebooks)--was that a proposed house rule, or is there actually a "Background" feat in the PHB that's intended to be used for this sort of thing?

I don't have the books either. But I hope and pray that there are other things than hit point damage you can do to PCs that last beyond the end of the encounter.