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There's a common theme to much, if not most, of what's not there. Items. So are they just going to put all of the item rules in an Essentials book that deals with items? (I'm out of the loop so I have no idea if there is one.) Or just not worry about it since all those rules are in the...

This. Daggermaster is fine as long as you're made to stick with the d4 for your damage die. It's never come up yet, but if asked I wouldn't have allowed the Daggermaster Sorcerer in my games. It makes all other options "obsolete" from a hardcore CharOp standpoint because getting 18-20 crits...

^ Is it more important to you that races match classes, rather than that races and classes individually make sense? For example, dwarves are tough. Given. Infernal warlocks have to be tough. Maybe not a given, but it's fine with me. So...why should a dwarf be mechanically punished for...

I do not think this is the case. Controllers still hurt allies with most AoEs AFAIK. This is hearsay, but what I have been hearing about the controllers is that druids are the most versatile and perhaps best at "controlling" on a round-to-round basis, invokers are a bit tougher and they tend...

Who cares? A cleric, wizard, etc. is still wasting his action by using a melee basic. The only practical effect is to improve OAs, and frankly, being not-terrible at OAs is worth a feat. It also instantly solves a major problem with the Charisma paladin.

Because most people don't read errata. My goliath warlock doesn't care about Greatweapon Training. Just like my dwarf wizard didn't care about Dwarven Weapon Training. At what point was it decided that "feats should provide a small, static bonus" translated to "feats should not adjust the...

Goddamn it. Ok, disregard everything I said above. (So much for WotC pulling a genius move out of its hat, lol. Guess they don't believe in tracking too many different to-hit numbers...or about the perception of power creep.)

You know...I really like that actually. Everyone hates missing with encounters and dailies...it can ruin a whole session. And while +1 to all those powers is a very strong feat, it's not a no-brainer because it isn't just a naked power-up to all attacks. The huge DPR builds right now are...

We used Water Walk to assault an enemy ship. It was epicly awesome. We had just enough time to throw it before the fight, and my dwarf paladin ran across to the other ship and hacked a hole in the side. :D

Because his base damage die is lower than all other strikers. We are talking d4/d6 vs. d8/d10/d12 here. Considering that everyone spending two feats and using a frost weapon in order to get this is almost certainly suboptimal, if a group wants to do this for thematic reasons more power to them.

Would it be ok if he were a rogue? Because a rogue is frightening with the sling. Unfortunately, you may have the staff but you won't get SA with it. I guess to get the most mileage out of both I would be a Str + Dex archer or beastmaster ranger. This would let you switch between the staff...

Hate to break it to you, but Graz'zt does have a teleport speed. ;)

Graz'zt undoubtedly has rituals out the wazoo. The stats are just what you use when he's murdering people.

Or, as I suggested, be a one-handed fighter instead of a Tempest. The ONLY thing you lose is the ability to take Fey Blades, which is a mere +1 to damage. (It's just a stackable TWF, so it's worthless unless you took Weapon Focus and TWF anyway. There are better feats.) Getting a +1 to both...

I was preparing an encounter of this sort in 3.5, but I never got to run it. Are the PCs meant to conclusively win this fight? Or is it supposed to grind to a bloody stalemate, with the Linear Guild here running off swearing revenge? If the former, use the NPC rules and create five level X...

Nope. Can't have your cake and eat it too, I'm afraid. However, I have a dirty little secret. If you take the "one-hand" style, you get that +1 to both hands. Then you just have to make sure you take Two-Blade Warrior at first level and voila. Then just take "tempest" type powers.

It does stack (because both bonuses are unnamed) and it is overpowered. Mostly because of Marked Scourge. Fighters aren't always attacking someone they've already marked, but they often are, and so it amounts to a gigantic amount of extra damage handed to a class that already did plenty.

I had a young black and two Blackscale Brutes tangle with a level 5 party. They were meant to win...it was the draconic equivalent of a street thug going after them for money. The dragon did pretty well considering that 1) for 6 turns straight he didn't recharge a single power and 2) he got...

Have you trying running epic level fights? A "mere" 3d8+7 is an average of 20.5 damage, which is about a tenth of an epic-level defender's HP. In my admittedly limited experience, epic-level monsters start scaring epic-level players right quick. Plus, a lich is still a lich and a dragon is...

Very nice! At last the idiotic design of the two-bladed sword yields productive and flavorful results for a particular character!