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In one of the 3.5 campaigns, I was a bard that took the chameleon paragon path and thus gained access to divine spellcasting abilities, and in 'faking' my devotion, invoked the Flying Spaghetti Monster as my diety. Near the tail end of the bigger adventure, the Paladin and Cleric were each...

The bard could have some fun (albeit at a steep feat cost) grabbing stuff like martial vampire, primal vampire, the afforementioned divine vampire, which can all help feed the damage boosting from arcane vampire. 4 surges, an extra one on a hit with each encounter power, an extra surge when...

Which is great. It should be possible to make both a stealthy, sneaking cutpurse type of rogue and a fast moving, daredevil, swashbuckling robber, etc ... but when the 'optimal' one is a charger, that does mean that a backstabber is "better off" being in your face than sneaking up behind you ...

Here's my opinion: 1) They got heroic tier right pretty much out of the gate. The numbers at level 1 are pretty solid, and the rate of growth is pretty solid. Once players have played for a while, the single encounter/daily at level 1, and the need of 3 or 4 feats to solidify a character (you...

Generally speaking, especially with the 4e system, gods and divine characters have a seperation. The power comes from the gods/astral plane, but the gods don't really, for example, punish a paladin by taking away his powers. It's up to the various orders of faith to police themselves. So, at...

I was just double checking, and the wording of pact initiate seems that you don't actually get a pact that way (you get the pact's at-will, and qualify specifically for paragon path's requiring that pact, but it doesn't actually say you gain the pact). I was actually thinking the same thing...

They did only do some classes from Forgotten Kingdoms. There is no hybrid hexblade (although you can sort of make one with the feat support), there is no hybrid hunter (again, you can sort of make it with the feat support), not much in the way of hybrid scout. While feat intensive, it's possible...

There is the eternal debate over wording of 'attack with a weapon' vs 'weapon attack' where a warlock firing an eldritch blast through his pact blade is "attacking with a weapon". I know that RBAs aren't ranger powers, but Clever Shot is a ranger power, that allows you to make a RBA as part of...

At least with Barbarians, the class itself tells you to optimize charging. "Here's an at-will that is works with charges while giving you bonus damage ... oh, and here's a free charge when you kill someone ... here's a rage that gives a free charge everytime you kill someone ... etc" A barbarian...

Some stuff probably needs to be addressed (the cavalier hybrid probably needs some sort of hybrid "update". If only making it's OA power an Immediate Action, to prevent it being a full defender in terms of 'mark+punishment' regardless of the other half of the class. Similarly, the monk's...

This does of course assume the party/monk player is perfectly fine with investing in a magic ki focus, AND two magic weapons, in addition to his neck slot and armor slot, etc. Assuming 3 'attack' magic items, isn't inconsequential. True, you can go with low level stuff with the weapons since...

It's quite possible to 'treat' a highish level minion as being basically the 'same' as a lower level normal character experienced later in an adventurers career. So a Hob Warrior is similar to a Hob Soldier in terms of their role. The typical members of the race are probably the lowest level...

The feat already exists as Improved Monk Unarmed Strike, the feat merely makes it better for the Monk to take, since it does something else. Ultimately, what they should probably do for Monks is: (a) Give them weapon attacks vs. AC as powers (b) Give them a feat, or just errata, to let them...

I see it that way too. PHB1 made the problem worse because the only at-will for the starlock was Con and the only paragon path was charisma based. They eventully made an 'all con' build viable with additional paragon paths over time, but a charisma based starlock is effectively stuck with only...

The Jester seems like it could be an interesting melee controller type of rogue. The whole taunting/demoralizing thing reminded me of the rogue I was toying around with using a combination of feats, to give his attacks rattling, and apply an extra -2 to attack rolls debuff with his attacks, and...

Of course, adding more niche classes would probably mean there would be lots of unsupported classes and builds lying around. It's possible to support all builds of a single class at once (with generic feats, utilities powers, paragon paths, etc). If the new class is a seeker or runepriest...

They do have some limited range darkvision, through feats in the heroic tier. Some 'special' multiclasses (Haunted Shade or Spellscarred) give a bit, you can get ranged 2 if you have 13 charisma and there's a shadar-kai bloodline.

Also, the way that hexblades and binders work, even if the dark pact was changed to a gloom pact, there wouldn't be any support (there are no feats that require the gloom pact, and the binder's gloom pact riders specify binder, so it wouldn't work for the cursing warlocks anyway. It would give...

I remember the 3.x class glut where there would be a bunch of spellcasters with their own spell lists that were mostly just specialized wizards or clerics, with some extra flavor stuff. At least with 4e and the 'each class has it's own spell list', they can make the distinction more flavorful...

A - The character builder B - The compendium The other stuff (DM stuff I can use, and the articles in general) are gravy, but really, the character builder and the compendium are things I use frequently as both a player and a DM. Even though I buy the various books, the updating in terms of...