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Being the top rated game on BGG is like an award itself.

Axes feats need less CON than say Hammer ones - there's nothing like the CON mod miss damage on Hammer Rhythm. They do tend to use CON as a secondary stat on powers. So, yeah, CON is somewhat important. But they can easily go with a more even spread of spread of secondary stats (or put more...

Game resources are contained within the game and fully described there. So relevant knowledge can obtained just by looking at game rule books. Also, while you can forget to use a useful game resource, you generally can't forget to have it entirely. OTOH, planning a wilderness expedition is...

If you can't rest all the time, then a character with more and bigger surges is more survivable even if their defenses are equal (or even lower in some situations). Moreover, even when the party is taking the same total amount of damage, the ability to influence how that damage is distributed...

Destructive Salutation is really good, but it's not a wizard power so it can't be used with Spell Focus or Orb.

Look at cleric, warlord, or bard multiclass feats.

Spiritual Weapon? The Implement versus AC attack? I haven't found combat advantage to be that hard to get.

Couldn't the dragon attempt to bullrush the fighter away, and thus end the pin since the fighter would cease being adjacent? Granted, that wouldn't work without some additional power/ability against a dwarf.

And it's easy to mooch off the combo even without all the parts of it. A caster with a frost power or two and Wintertouched can get CA by aiming at the same targets as the Frost Weapon/Lasting Frost user.

Clerics can put out good damage via area attacks. Two clerics PPs have selective Burst 8s for 3d8, and they have some other Close or Area attacks. They're not doing much concentrated damage, but in total that can be lots of damage.

Why does the wizard have the lowest defenses again? In my experience, wizards tend to have pretty good defenses - their primary stat adds to AC, they can easily get armor upgrades, the most commonly picked secondary stats add to different defenses, and they have strong defensive powers in...

And why is that a good thing?

Yeah, I think that there should be a maximum level. It's much easier to design both mechanics and settings that way.

Sort of. Something threatening to a party of Demigods all dropping their Divine Regeneration would probably be overwhelming to most other groups, or if those dailies are unavailable.

Maybe it's just the monsters my group tended to fight, but vulnerability in DnD always seemed to be represented more by a lack of resistance. Cold/Fire creatures were almost always more defended against their own element than they were vulnerable to the opposite. Especially since many...

He's saying that people use auto-damage powers like Rain of Steel or miss damage to mitigate the loss of damage from missed attacks. But even Stormwardens do more damage when they hit.

Pandemic is a good 4 player co op game. It works pretty well with fewer players too. Race for the Galaxy, while great fun IME, doesn't sound like your best choice. Like many custom card games, a lot of the complexity is in each specific card so learning the game can take a lot of experience...

My interpretation is that each square of a charge move must reduce the distance to the target. So those charges lines are illegal since they include However, (4,2), (5,2), (6,2) in (x,y) from bottom left corner are an equal distance from A. So B could charge into (4,2) then (4,3) or (5,3)...

Wraiths, with their Weakening attacks, Insubstancial form, and regeneration, present similar problems.

Flying ranged/reach attackers can provide disproportionate trouble.