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I"m with Hussar. I always thought that "Core" meant "you need these books to play." As opposed to non core books, which were optional. To a certain extent this wasn't just marketing. You needed the rules in the PHB. You needed certain tables and magic items in the DMG. And you needed at...

It doesn't. The Avenger multiclass is for situations when Hand of Radiance isn't relevant anymore because he doesn't have enough targets. Yep. That's exacty what I said. If he's not playing D&D the way my group plays it, he's playing it wrong. Not only should he not play in my group, he...

That's a lot of D&D events. My local convention (the little local one, not the huge regional one) had maybe 6 D&D events last convention. Two were 4e. The rest were 2e. Of course, then there was the RPGA, which had who knows how many D&D games running.

Just for reference, this is what the character's Hand of Radiance is going to be doing. 4 attacks 1d4+wisdom crit on 19 (4 targets means 34.39% chance for at least one crit per round) on a crit, regular crit damage, plus the following: vulnerable 10 radiant for all creatures within 5 squares...

There is a vast difference between "is unknown for certain" and "is 100% unknown." I was just politely pointing that out. Most of my points are indisputable- for example, it is quite simply mathematically unlikely that vast numbers of people just happened to have their subscriptions run out...

I can tell you for 14th level characters. Level 15 is a bit around the corner for us. And I'm going to forget some names, since I don't have everything right in front of me. Also note that we're not a completely optimized party- we have some tricks, but we mostly play things safe and most of...

First, people who semi-regularly buy one month subscriptions are still paying WotC money, so at worse they're partial successes from WotC's perspective. Second, people who had subscriptions and have let them lapse are likely to be a small minority since yearly subscriptions, probably the...

Piratecat- Number 3 can be safely dismissed from your list. That's... kind of my point. Forum moderation is truth-neutral here, so the best trolls just make stuff up instead of use bad words. And I don't think its all that difficult to separate out those who are misinformed from those who...

It also mitigates the "charged and can't use a minor action now" problem, or the "moved, attacked, use a utility, have no minor action left" problem. I liked that the article called out the issue with enemies that shift away and attack your allies. I've seen a lot of people misunderstand...

Your mistake is believing that the conversation was ever civil in the first place. A conversation where one person lies to annoy the other is not a civil conversation, no matter how nicey nice the words utilized may be. That's the biggest, most fundamental flaw in ENWorld's moderation...

It is not unreasonable to ascribe motives to others. Its unreasonable not to. Its just against forum rules because this forum privileges the trappings of civility over actual civil conversation.

It attacks three targets. Its damage is only a d4, but it adds your full bonus damage to every target.

I've got a level 14 character that got there the hard way. And I still get that wrong.

I'm not sure that's the case, but its mostly not a straight mathematical comparison so its hard to be 100% sure. Flurry of Talons lets you move your speed towards an enemy without provoking OAs, then attack with an implement attack using the three attack system from a lot of the assassin's...

Mathematically, Shadow Fire is better than a regular 3[W]+Dex attack. It would be even if each attack contributed 1/3 of the total damage, but that's not the case. Each attack contributes 1[W], but the static modifiers all kick in with at least one hit. This weights the expected damage...

Why not?

The math is actually pretty simple. Just look at the ACs at level 1, since everything else will basically even out. Everyone gets +1/2 level, everyone gets the same magical armor bonuses, the only thing that varies is material bonuses and those are very, very close to equal for all armor...

Its also great for small sized assassins. The Shadow Blade is a regular weapon, not a versatile weapon or a two handed weapon, so if I'm remembering the small size rules correctly a halfling can use it one handed. That gives them equivalent weapon and shield options to a regular sized assassin...

Think more shadowfell conceptually, not shadowfell "home of the undead." A shadowy reflection of reality that can be manipulated to affect the original. We only have one class here, true. But look at how much theme its dripping with. Primary mechanical themes seem to be stealth, fear...

Its going to sound like a trite answer, but shadows and the shadowfell. We've got the shadow captain and the assassin so far, and they both have thematic links to magic relating to shadows of other things, and to various shadowfell themes.