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The DDI glossary at least is not as up to date on some rules as the RC, as I learned in another thread.

Rules Compendium is absolutely worth it. It has shortened the time-to-a-rules-answer when something comes up at our table considerably. Plus it almost always has an answer, which is also great.

Another option would be sentinel druid and just take regular controller druid powers any where it lets you. Just check the 'show other options' box when picking a power in the character builder. That gets you full leader healing word, acess to the 'better surges during a rest' feature, a pet to...

Wayne Reynolds is an artist, not a developer - so if we want to be boring, the reason they're named that way is just because he did the art, if we want to put our conspiracy hats on, maybe it is teasing us about some game art-related site/product.

Rituals, rituals, rituals. The entire rituals system needs to be taken out back and completely redesigned into something that is both usable (but not overpowered) by PCs but also successfully models all of the old magical plot hooks that the old pre 4e spell system used to provide: - long term...

I wouldn't suggest going that far. In that case (a speed 2 guy who will apparently bleed to death without your intervention) the extremely obvious solution for the party is to just leave him to bleed to death on his own.

I would go so far as to say that every damage type *has* to have at least a few different things it can do, otherwise why would you ever specialize in the first place? If every single cold power did nothing but attack Fort and cause slow, you certainly wouldn't want every cold power. Instead...

The bad choice was really the marketing text surrounding its release. I don't think anyone would be upset if they had just said up front "yeah we know this is incomplete, this is just going up so the beta works properly". Instead we got an email announcement saying it would have all sorts of...

There are a lot of options here. I might consider using a full hp ogre in the level 8-ish range (non solo, non elite), and just have him count as bloodied the whole time.

I answered the middle one, but only because it would be my second choice after VERY LIMITED TO NO racial support. Basically I would prefer if racial support was baked entirely into the choice of race itself, and didn't have a big effect on character choices going forward from there. I feel too...

I think the problem was a bit exacerbated by the fact that not only was damage a little low in an overall sense, some monsters seemed to be clearly just bugged (like the aforementioned hill giant) - as I recall it didn't even match the guidelines in the DMG1. So, there was a combination of...

The regen only functions while bloodied, so they'd still need to spend surges for the top half of their hp.

Are leaderless groups really all that common? The only archetype I see getting left out regularly in our games is the controller.

I think that was just the only one they happened to reprint in the DM Kit. I am assuming the change is coming for the rest of them as well.

Cloak of Courage at the start of every fight is how I get around the wussy strikers on my now-epic cleric. A full surge worth of temporary hit points to get things rolling helps a LOT. Pretty sure that power is borderline overpowered as an encounter power, but they keep not nerfing it. EDIT...

I suspect the Essentials organization of placing the race after the class (it is like that in the Heroes of X books as well, as well as in the character builder now I think) is intended to make the "choice" of making a new character along the lines of "pick a class, then find a race that fits...

If the original guy is a skilled fighter and watching me closely (read: he's a defender and has 'marked' me) then he gets to swing*, sure. ;) *Or shoot me with holy lasers, etc.

What I mean by a "RAI" sort of change is that it is the sort of change that probably reflects what the guy who originally sat down and made flaming weapons meant for them to do. They predate people who could use them as implements, after all. EDIT: Well, maybe not, staff/wizard. But I never felt...

I'd have bought it most likely. Would be nice to have the correct version of older stuff in an actual book.

It does seem like a RAI sort of change, but I do wonder why it isn't all of the elemental damage weapons.