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Master at Arms is very hard to beat, even with a character as accurate as a thief (who can also take advantage of the quick swap rapier <-> shortbow it provides). As far as a skill-based feat, picking up a multiclass feat that comes with a skill training may be the way to go. What skills are...

Eh, I'd avoid a gouge-charge build just because it looks like your party isn't super-optimized, and such a build very much is. Charge is the strongest and easiest thing to abuse in the rules right now by far. A good solid great-weapon fighter with a hammer or an axe would also, for me at least...

The seer is pretty terrible mechanically. I don't look forward to arguments over what a 'meaningful' action are, or the inevitable rounds of "Monster Knowledge Check as a free action, minor action perception to make sure no one's hiding in those brush, Daily."

A friend of came up with this, his desire to build a 4E modern and add more firearm support. I've been attempting to use it to round one a few of my own proud nails, slowly, by trying to come up with rules to make martial weapons work on par with superior via feats. Ranged weapons really are...

My preferred math fix in an ideal world is making plussed items go to +9. I've thought about extending the loot table to 34th level a few times as well. Since they would be, literally, rare I think just letting them go off the edge of the chart is the best thing to do in that case.

This guy is an example, assuming pure PHB1 with no errata. I took the power swap feats because, why not? You most likely already have enough shift powers to keep the rogue always in flanking and there aren't that many amazing feats in PHB1. If you worry less about doing everything in a 100%...

Go taclord, take powers with big [W]s and bonuses to hit/damage over ones that grant attacks and get a big weapon. Easy.

Enchantment wizards are good at getting enemies to kill each other. Illusionists are good at screwing enemies over. The Illusionary Ambush and Phantom Bolt at wills, for example (though Freezing Burst is pretty much better than bolt in most ways until you start getting illusion benefits from...

Funny, given that the power point augmentation classes would be the easiest, IMHO, to build in essentials style. Just given them one augmentable at-will (their Power Strike equivalent) and power points. Done and done.

This is similar to how I'd approach it, but not really in the same vein. I want a feat/talent split to reduce complexity. Say we stick with 30 levels. What I'd want is talents to be things that are potentially powerful, but don't increase complexity. Things like weapon and armor proficiency...

So I don't forget: Move mastery feats to Paragon Tier, add Level 18 Prerequisite. Level 21 'combat mastery' has no requirements. Remove ability to retrain feats cross tier so you have a small mechanical advantage for getting the harder to attain mastery. Critical thoughts: Extra crit damage...

No I hadn't. ... Nice to see I'm not the only person who felt all healing bonuses should be typed and expressed as a bonus to healing surge value.

They need to give Rich Anderson more work.

Oh, hey. I've been doing it wrong all this time. Good to know.

The wizard is being absurdly stupid. Prone opponents grant combat advantage. So the -2 to hit with ranged evens out to -0 (or +2 with area attacks).

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Feats Remove - All expertise feats, improved defense feats. New Feats Implement Training Choose one of the following properties, you can apply the benefits of that property to any implement attack you make: Sweeping, Distant, Energized (choose one energy type), Piercing, Guarded, Empowered...

Magic Items Weapons and Implements Magic Weapon or Implement Type: Any Rarity: Common Level: 2: +1; 5: +2; 8: +3; 12: +4; 15: +5; 18: +6; 22: +7; 25: +8; 28: +9 Critical: 1d6 per plus. Vicious Weapon or Implement Type: Any Rarity: Common Level: 3: +1; 6: +2; 9: +3; 13: +4; 16: +5; 19: +6; 23...

Weapon, Armor & Implements charts New weapons: Heavy Javlin - Military two handed throwing spear. Angon - Superior one handed throwing spear. Replaces Tantalyr. Dory - Superior one-handed reach spear. Replaces warspear. Hawkeye - Superior two-handed throwing axe. Other changes: Gouge - 1d12...

Wherein I try and do everything I outlined in the first two points here. Doubt I'll ever even use this in a game, but it's been a while since I scratched my tinkering itch. To do Get basic list of common/uncommon/rare plussed items, establish baselines of what each class can do. Throw out most...