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I don't think this is much of an issue, especially considering most, if not all, alignment-dependent mechanics have been taken out. What I don't understand is why this bothered with this alignment change at all. It just seems pointless.

So I'm assuming you think they should have left out everyone's ability scores, powers, equipment, trained skills, and feats, right? I mean, come on, they're pre-gens. 'Not choosing' comes with the territory. Up until this point, 'not getting all your abilities' wasn't part of the territory.

Especially considering they gave the half-elf a feat that added another potential encounter power. If there wasn't room for the half-elf's racial ability, I can't believe they got to "just forget about it" before they got to "hey, there's this power here we can get rid of to make room if we just...

Did you really have to post her pic? Do you go around posting pictures of the men who write most of the articles discussed here? All this is going to do is invite all sorts of catcalls, something a lot of women not surprisingly aren't fond of. It's just completely unnecessary.

That fighter had 4: athletics, endurance, heal, and streetwise.

I've honestly completely lost whatever point you were making, and I don't mean that in a mean-spirited way. Ultimately, we're right back to some people believing the 4E warlord is too focused on melee. Maybe I'll just leave it there.

I don't think that's true. Warlords don't seem to have any powers using the bow, or any ranged weapon, which is a death knell for a warlord being an archer considering that powers are now how characters will be effective. It's certainly much worse than a 3E barbarian simply being a couple feats...

The complaint isn't that the warlord can't do melee well. He can certainly do that specific thing well. The complaint is that, based on what we've seen, that's all he can do. We've now seen six warlord powers, and every single one of them requires the warlord to be in melee range, even a power...

From the powers excerpt: http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/4ex/20080425a

Sure, if they spend the feat. We know the warlord and ranger don't have access to it, otherwise and it's a pretty good bet the cleric, wizard, fighter, and paladin don't. Maybe the warlock does, but for the other six classes, including one of the other strikers, they have to use a feat.

I love the Commander's Strike power because I want a leader/buffer that doesn't have to attack something to help his allies. Unfortunately, based on everything else we've seen from the warlord and cleric, Commander's Strike is a glaring exception to the 'attack to buff' rule. Oh well, at least...

Well, yeah. But there's gotta be more possibilities for disabling a trap than simply 'use Thievery' and more possibilities for breaking a trap than just 'mindlessly hack away with your most damaging attacks'. Why not allow Arcana to let someone disable a magic trap on the basis of understanding...

I really liked that power, but I thought it was unfortunate how much of a stark contrast it was to the other warlord powers that all required the warlord make a melee attack to do something that would help the party. I hope there's more powers like the warlord's Commander's Strike, but...

I was kinda disappointed that the way to get around all three traps was either 'use Thievery' or 'attack it'. They were really talking up about how traps wouldn't necessitate a rogue with disable device, that the other party members would have ways to get involved, etc. I'm just kinda...

They were two basic 1st-level at-wills, of which we've seen a dozen. They've run out of ways to preview 1[W] + small rider effect. And the six versions of orcs? I guess that's nice, but we've seen dozens of monsters, including similar mid-heroic humanoids. Seeing these orcs didn't reveal...

I wonder if that includes the +1/2 level like skill check modifiers, because if it doesn't, that ability peaks at level one and loses effectiveness until it's mostly irrelevant in the mid-paragon tier. If it does scale with level, though, that's nice.

What is Draconic Heritage? The eagle-eyed posted who discovered most of the dragonborn abilities from a photo in a newspaper wasn't quite able to make out what it did. Also, any new feats we haven't seen? And anything about the powers or other class abilities would be great. I'd love to see...

Are we paying for the books? Then of course we can look at this issue from our perspective. WotC undoubtedly has to try and find a balance due to a number of factors, some of which you mentioned. But the necessity of a balance and the number of those factors doesn't somehow invalidate the...

It says seven paragon feats. It lists those seven as three feats selected during the paragon tier , and up to four retrained feats selected during the heroic tier. The fact that is says 'up to' four retrained feats seems to strongly suggest that there's more than four potential feats to...

Agreed. I would love that. I think it'd create an interesting dynamic to have two very similar races seperated by something that isn't obvious. The paranoia, prejudices, etc., would all be very interesting. That's why I'd love to see tieflings that didn't have horns, tails, forked tongues, or...