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Then I envy your 3.5 group. My group was a fun bunch during the RP, but combat was often boring and repetitious. I did my best to spice things up as the DM, and think I helped a bit. When I wasn't DM'ing it honestly painful at times.

Are your games generally RAW, or do you have a lot of houserules and non-WotC splatbooks? My games were always WotC products only (because a lot of the 3rd party stuff was crap, and it was easier to just say no and not worry than to try and figure out what was fairly balanced and what wasn't)...

So I'm going to give a try at this. I'll say from the beginning that it's not going to be exactly what you're looking for. As mentioned on other threads, a bunch, focused summoning is not yet available. The sheer complexity of this concept and how much it contrasts with some of the...

100% agree. There's two parts to this too. There's the bit about magic, and the bit about "combat focus". For the magic bit, this ties right in with a lot of the people who are upset about "nerfing wizards". I know we all thing magic is amazing, and wonderful, and should be able to do...

This is an incorrect reading, I think. The power just says "Choose one handed weapons or two handed weapons and get a +1 bonus to hit when using your choice." Choose one-handed, and then TWF all you want. :)

I was going to contradict you (as I just made a Star Pact Warlock myself a couple days ago to see what it would be like) but I realized you're right. There are a lot of powers with the fear keyword. Very few of them, however, have any kind of save involved. Oh well. I still want to play it...

I'll take a stab at these. I may be shooting myself in the foot, but we'll see. There's two kinds of people that ask questions on the internet: people who are honestly questioning, and people who are just inflamatory. The first set I'll happily try and help, the second set won't listen to me...

I'll take a stab at these! :D This is a hard one. Let's see. You want triple threat, so three effective things. We already know you can't triple class. That's out, so I'm not even going to worry about that. Don't downplay the Rogue's "skill at arms". He may just be using a dagger, but...

So, I wonder if you're still approaching the system from a perspective that's expecting things that aren't there. Then, when they aren't, you've already got grounds to be upset. Lets take a look at your post: Here's the first thing that caught my attention. You skipped over something...

You sir, are absolutely correct. The post you've linked to definitely helped me figure out some of the ideas that spawned my original post here, and helped me understand the system as a whole. Thank you. :)

I'm at work, so I can't give you a list of specifics, but I think part of the problem (if I'm understanding you), is that you're looking for the wrong thing here. Feats don't give you more or less options anymore. They just make slight adjustments to the options you already have. Take your...

I'm at work so I can't really make up a full character for you, but I can give you some suggestions: Firstly, I would recommend going multiclass with this character. Fae-lock with wizard multi or wizard with fae-lock multi works very well. Fae-lock powers mostly have a bonus effect that keys...

You're right, there's no reason they can't. In time, they probably will. The design goals for 4e appear to be maximizing fun, with a sub-goal of game balance (most of us will agree that a well-balanced game is generally more fun). "Less build options" makes it easier to maintain that...

Cutting you a bit out of context here, but I bring up this point because it seems to come up *so* often, and I don't really understand it exactly, so maybe we can discuss it a bit? People complain about the lack of Druids and Bards. I'm totally on board with that one. I don't worry too much...

That's really key, in that it makes each decision important. I often find myself opening a combat with an at-will power, even if I'm playing a bit higher level and have a larger selection of encounters. I don't want to waste a good encounter power's secondary effects simply to do more damage...

There's two ways to define "Limited options". Firstly, there's the "Class concept X that I want isn't available." Secondly there's "The total number of options is less." I was responding to the second argument, not the first. The first will almost assuredly be fixed in splatbooks, as you and...

Got a long one here for you all. So I'm a long time lurker here on ENWorld. I decided it's finally time to start a thread. I've been playing 4th for a few months now, as an NDA'd friend of a couple WotC employees. While I can't discuss specifics, I can talk about impressions I've gotten, and...

Other than the really obvious "I want to play a fighter with 8 str and 10 con", there aren't really any traps that I've seen. Some things seem better than others, but not in any really significant sort of way.

Here's my thoughts from what 4e I've played and read... No, not exactly. This is intentional though, as other's have said. Apart from some apparently bizarre situations (and I really think the strangeness is only there at first glance), this has big benefits. It keeps things scaleable at...

As Rechan mentioned above, I think this is a case of getting stuff beforehand, rather than "in addition to". I expect we'll likely see this same warforged write up in the Eberron Campaign book. On the same note, the Drow entry that's almost assuredly in the Forgotten Realms book will probably...