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doesn't make much sense. Why would specialising in one weapon give you a bonus with a completely different weapon in the other hand?

If the players try to find trivial encounters to rort the system, simply have them not count. Why? See my last post. Next explanation - it's a karmic thing - you need to build up karma (better suited for divine items perhaps)

You need an in-character explanation? Hmm. Here's one I just made up off the top of my head - you could probably do better if you took time to think it out.= It's a recharge time which is longer than the time between the last encounter and this one. No - it's not a constant number of minutes...

Don't some powers have 'Basic Attack' as a property? I assume this means that any such power can be used in situations that trigger a basic attack.

The wording was specifically changed to prevent cases of paladins marking enemies then running away, causing the marked enemy to take damage each round until it caught up to the paladin or died. i.e. Standpoint B. is exactly what the developers are trying to stamp out. So it's Standpoint A.

Others consider it simple observation. Player: "Ok, I target the guy with the armoured guard each side of him. The guy shouting out all the orders." DM: "What? How'd you figure out he was the leader?" Player: "... You're joking, right?" The PCs know there are minions because the encounter...

Wear armour, or have armour plating fitted?

Wizards forget the spells they previously had in their Spellbook because the developers thought that keeping them would make the wizards overpowered. It's a spellbook. It only holds so much. Something had to get removed to make room. Same logic as one ring per hand.

The other thing about minions is that they do a fixed amount of damage when they hit, instead of a random amount. This is presumably so having a dozen minions in an encounter doesn't slow down gameplay.

You're using the movie to illustrate a point about how minions should be simulated in the RPG, which is only valid if you apply all the RPG mechanics to said simulation. Princess Leia has been 'hit' multiple times, eroding her hit points to the point where the next hit actually drops her below...

Leia has a visible wound. She's bloodied (as lost at least half her hitpoints). Sounds like a credible threat to me.

*sigh* A lot of people seem to be making the same mistake. Minion is not a creature type. It's mechanic you can use to build a specific type of encounter. You do not run across minions as single random monsters. Minion is a template used in constructing encounters with large numbers of...

Retraining appears to only give you the option to change a choice you made. Since there is no choice in the power you get with feats like Arcane Initiate, retraining cannot change that power. If Arcane Initiate gave you a choice between two powers, then you could select the other one with...

Following the RAW is not homebrewing.

No such thing as a lone minion. If you come across minions, it will be, by definition, in a group of four or more. Furthermore, your example is explicitly ruled out by the rules we've seen so far: Here's the brain bender: The minion template is an encounter mechanic, not a monster mechanic...

Er... You ARE aware that 4E rangers can choose to not even take nature as a trained skill? That they have no inherent woodsman abilities at all now, and are in fact just the striker flavour of the 3E fighter now? I'm sure you are - this point has been made in several threads you've posted in...

Were they novice players? I'm taking that bit as more of the 'advice to the new players we're hoping to attract.' In that context, I'd even agree to it. 90% of novice players would cause party friction if their first ever character was an evil character in anon-evil party. And most Novice DMs...

Dear Lord, is this still going? Trying to generate a meaningful threat? OK - let's define a meaningful threat: 1) To be a threat, the opponent must have a credible - let's say better than even - chance to cause you harm before you can kill it. 2) To be a meaningful threat, the harm the...

And with 4E WoTC are hoping to attract a large number of new players, and thus a lot of novice DMs. So it seems to me that advice aimed at novices - especially advice that points out what happens when the rules are open to interpretation - are a vital part of the 4E books. Experienced players...

You can get the curse as an at-will power by using paragon multiclassing. Without that, as I read your quote it seems that the 12th utility is the only way you can apply the curse. You still have the curse - you just don't have an at-will that applies it.