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I'm surprised no one has really touched on the loremaster aspects of the class. Everyone seems focused on the jongleur over the skald. They are, to me, living history. They are repositories of the oral tradition. What transitions them to minstrels and the like is the fact that so many...

Why is the BoR still even being mentioned after we've been told that the issue is dealt with in the 4E DMG? Stop beating those dead rats, for all our sakes.

Wow, what a massive derailing. Small aside: パン　(pan) comes from Portuguese, not German. I'm actually interested in what WotC_巫女　stated about a 'multiclass feat'. It was a bit unclear. Did she multiclass to be allowed to take the Feat, or did she mean a Training Feat, or what, exactly? ;)

Wow, that was fast. ;) BTW, guys, if you think 'kensei'/'kensai' is odd in English, I'll let you know I can't find it in either the normal online dictionary I use for Japanese OR my home dictionary. I believe it's a new term all around. That, or VERY old and archaic. The_Fan: Unfortunately a...

Hey, if people think English has it bad, try Japanese. I think it's perfectly fine to take the occasional word from Japanese into English, since it seems sometimes that Japanese staged ninja raids on the discount repositories of other languages for words. $5 USD to the first person (without...

I think the best hint as to the number of PPs that exist in the PHB would be the Stormwarden and the Doomsayer (and perhaps others). Both require a specific 'build option' (TWF for Ranger, Star Pact for Warlock). To have a PP for some builds and not others seem rather heartless for WotC to do...

Lots of crunch in here. :) This makes this bear quite happy. :) The most impressive ability I saw was the Battle Marshal's (name?) ability to use an Action point to regain an encounter ability.

Oh, yes, the whole 'where's the other controller' issue. I too share it; I don't understand why WotC injured the parallel nature of the game in this manner. I imagine it was due to market research; too many people like playing Rogues and Rangers to axe one (even at the beginning) in favor of...

I'm pretty sure that CarnivorousBean is speaking of the term 'warlord' from a historical perspective. In my studies of Chinese history, the early 1900s are generally referred to as the 'Age of Warlords' or 'Warlordism'. There is a definite connotation to the word when used in historical or...

*ROFLMAO @ Hong* Priceless. I'll echo what a lot of people said and say I'd like to have seen at-will powers, but it's much better to have some/much crunch than no crunch. ;) So far, we have 2 options for Rogues, 2 options for Warlords, and _4_ options for Warlocks (the different pacts). It...

One option is that the Elf or Eladrin (I'm not sure if this was in the Elf entry or in one of the preview books) trances instead of sleeps, and the listed game effect is that you are fully aware of your surroundings while 'resting'. That would allow you to 'have someone on watch' without...

Since I run a tactical group of players, they are more or less already 'primed' to handle the resource management 'well'. There is a certain amount of trust that I _will_ hand them their heads if they try to follow the 5-minute day. This is all good. However, this trust can be quite abused by...

Generally, orcs are described as 'fecund', which means they should have a breeding rate higher than the norm. On another note, is there a way on here to avoid seeing a given person's posts?

Call in the Quality Inspectors. It sounds like you have a bad batch of minis, Voss; more Quality Control!

Snark aside, healing surges are as valuable as the GM makes them. This says nothing about 4E, really. This is about GMs. If your GM lets you take Extended Rests after every fight, then Con is a 'dump stat'. If your GM does not let you take Extended Rests after every fight, then Con is not a...

On the Vampire Lord Thrall subject... I'll point out that the Lich creates his phylactery using a ritual. I would not be surprised in the least if there were a ritual that could be performed to lengthen the duration of a 'dominate' effect.

On the whole 'console games don't have real death' issue, I'll point out that at least in the first few Suikoden CRPGs for the Playstation, if you lost one of the recruitable characters in a mass engagement, they were dead. And if you didn't have all of them (but the one about to be mentioned)...

Maybe I'm being naive, but if the Succubus can't make people use daily powers... what's the point of the monster? The Succubus should be as strong as the party she comes up against. In 3.5, it was perfectly acceptable for a dominator to tell a dominatee, "Use your most powerful ability against...

Entreri: I think you're seeing different types of player groups. Some can get along with almost no arguing whatsoever (for whatever reason). Others will apparently argue over whether the sun is up. A battlemat serves to lay down parameters in concrete terms rather than abstract terms. This...

It would seem, from both write-ups, that when fighting devils, you'd best be able to out-tactics them, or you're going to be in a plane of hurt. :p