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For what it's worth, CustServ agrees with me: Q: Can I wield a longsword in my primary hand and still draw and throw shuriken with my off-hand? A: Yes, you can do that.

That is true. However, shuriken are not melee weapons, and off-hand appears to be a property of melee weapons.* Apart from that, are you seriously going to tell me I can throw a dagger with my off-hand, but I can't throw an even smaller, even lighter blade in the same manner? * Look at what...

That's a good point. And really the rules aren't very clear; it says thrown weapons return "after a ranged attack with the weapon is resolved". Well, technically you're resolving each attack as you make it during a burst or blast, so it's easy to argue that the weapon returns. At the same...

That's not correct. PHB page 217 says under "Load", "If a power allows you to hit multiple targets, the additional load time is accounted for in the power." This doesn't explicitly call out drawing multiple thrown weapons, but it would be pretty silly to argue that you can draw, load, and fire...

Not to start an argument, but I don't think it would screw up the curve, so long as you're following the rules as written for creating and buying items. You can't create items above your level, and on-level items are pretty second-rate, not even available as treasure if you follow the treasure...

I'm just saying I think there's a diminishing returns thing there. A guy who succeeds on a 15 or better gets great benefit from a +5 item. A guy who succeeds on a 6 really doesn't get nearly as much of a bump from the same item. And of course, if that guy succeeds on a 3, he's just wasting...

A shamshir is a scimitar; it's just a different language (persian versus persian-filtered-through-italian). Saber (or sabre), shamshir, scimitar, talwar, saif... they're all the same thing. They're all essentially saber-shaped weapons: a blade with a radical curve. It would not be inaccurate...

Does it really, though? It seems to me like the 'haves' are so far ahead already that the extra +5 or so hardly makes any difference. Somebody who trains and focuses is going to almost never fail anyway. I always thought powerful skill bonus items (like, say, an elven cloak) are more to help...

I'd suggest adding more reroll feats, and I think it would also be interesting if there were racial feats that acted like Skill Training for two related feats, especially for skills that are strongly associated with classes that are tough for that race. Er... here, examples: Dwarves don't make...

Sigh. Because I never said it's guaranteed that doing that will cause you to suck as a character or something. As per Dan's original comment, spreading yourself across several concepts can cause a sense of grind through feeling overly restricted, if the player is prone to that sort of thing...

I'm pretty sure ritual price reduction doesn't work on magic items. It has a cost of "special". 50% of special is... ???

Well, for example, what I just got through saying about splitting yourself between ranged and melee. I'm not denying that. It's possible, but the point of the post we are discussing is that sometimes it's power selection or spread that can be the problem, rather than actual repetition. Got one...

Absolutely! I don't think anyone is suggesting that a group of eight zombies needs to have a treasure packet somehow strapped to them, any more than a bunch of wolves would somehow be carrying around 8 gold. But from a metagame standpoint, that encounter was "worth" a certain value of treasure...

It's small and unimportant, but I'm still frustrated that they've continued the "Falchion is a great-scimitar" thing. A falchion is a french weapon that is SPECIFICALLY one-handed, and sits somewhere between an axe and a sword in terms of use -- it's effectively a war-machete. Where they got...

Totally missing the point, there. The point is not to give up your actions to let somebody else do something fun. The point is to take your cleric, for example, and concentrate your power selections and feat choices and such on making yourself an awesome leader, instead of becoming a mediocre...

Your DM can rule what he likes, but that's not what the text of the ability says. There's been no update or faq clarification on this, so we have to assume the book text is correct: When you roll a 20 on an attack roll -- any attack roll, regardless of how many others you've made -- you slide...

This is of far less importance than the fact that they are still using "falchion" to describe a great-scimitar. A falchion is a specifically ONE HANDED french weapon that could best be described as a war machete.

This may be the core of why you don't like my philosophy. I don't pretend there's a real world in there where the treasure is where I put it. The party is supposed to get about X gold and 3 items each level, so I split up that value among the fights necessary to reach the new level. If they...

Well, then you aren't disagreeing with me, you're disagreeing with the game system this board is devoted to. And in that case, well, there's not a lot to discuss. You don't like one of the basic tenets of the system. (And really, there's no need. You can give the players a +X bonus to...

This thread is rapidly turning into a conflation of two different discussions. Well, okay, if you say so, but the game as written today, 4th edition, not first, doesn't require that. It doesn't (at least by default) lump curses on you if you touch a magic weapon without checking it first. It...