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My dwarf fighter deliberately encouraged this in a recent fight, because I was almost surrounded by bloodied Troglodytes. The wizard hit them all, hit me, and I used a utilty that let me shift when damaged by an attack, so I got out of the flank and escaped even more damage. Of course, the...

I think (and looking at responses, I think that this is backed up by others) that it isn't a case of an "Underpowered Class". What you instead have are some classes with many viable builds (Fighter) and others with just a few viable builds and many subpar/ineffective/situational builds...

You could also have someone who always tried to negotiate, etc, but simply was not plausible at it. We have a party wizard who does this. He uses threats like "Now, you have really caused me to get angry!" and bluffs like "Oh, powerful dragon, I have brought you a sack of really valuable...

This is what I did, so your storyline may need to differ. Members of my original Winterhaven party are still alive, and not retired. However, one character did leave the group in Thunderspire. That character joined Bax and the Moonstair guards (and Etheran, etc.) in hunting down trolls in the...

Well, I would in particular look at the Avalanche hammer. It has good critical hit dice, a nice damage bonus on the charge, and knocks foes prone on a crit. It's not a no-brainer choice, but it is pretty darn good. Depending on your power choices, you might like the Staggering Hammer more (if...

The game depends on cooperation between the players and the DM. If someone is playing a Fighter, then the player has an obligation to pay attention to actions that might trigger his Combat Challenge. The DM has an obligation, when the marked enemy takes actions, to allow that player the...

Another aspect of the clearly defined system mechanics is accessibility. Particularly in 4e (not a system criticism), where there is the excellent Character Builder available, which creates Power Cards, the players are presented with some options which are clearly spelled out, clearly defined...

FIghters, in particular, might use a lot of basic attacks. This is for two reasons, largely: Fighters have two abilities that result in basic attacks, their opportunity attacks and their combat challenge attacks. Both of these class features are pretty good, and both can be boosted...

I don't think the impact on doing damage would be very much, but it would be kind of a lousy choice for some rangers. If you wanted to play an archery ranger, then you are relatively fine. You have lost Defensive Mobility, but that's it. If you want to play a beastmaster ranger, you know what...

The situational modifiers do take time to remember, and mental energy. Our group keeps forgetting them a lot. I'm thinking of basically handing out different colored poker chips with numbers on them at some point, or something. If the cleric gives the ranger a +2 to hit, he gets a +2 chip in...

This is, ironically I suppose, what I like about the art. The art is "childlike". It is intentionally cartoonish and bright, and I thought that brought it vitality and humor. I don't know enough about how the artist produces each work to judge, but I suspect that these pieces are produced...

I have noticed (and this may also be a coincidence), that sometimes if I equip something, save the character, close the character (and sheet) and then reopen the character and 'regenerate' the character sheet, these things fix themselves. I'm not sure that the CB 'refreshes' the cards and...

Given what I think "mechanics becoming the focus" means, I think I would agree. I would perhaps rephrase the complaint as "convenient mechanics become the focus". Your character has stats for his magic sword, and his attack powers, and his utilities. There's no stats (you get easy access to)...

Oddly, despite agreeing with many of the criticisms here, I think my biggest three problems are something no one else has complained about: Quest XP rushes the PCs through a level. What I mean by this is that, fairly often (especially in pregen adventures), the major quests involved are all...

You may notice that some of the posters have shared games where different characters were connected in different ways. I personally like this a lot, as it feels more 'real' to me. Rather than having all the characters connected to the same quest in the same way, I think that is a lot more...

I don't know. I think the mental image I get of the Behir struggling to keep down a wriggling Warden is worth the use of the Standard Actions. Requiring the sustain means that a Behir can't just run away while pummelling you with its gizzard. It only gets to nom on you if it stands there...

A couple of thoughts and observations: First, I played a very brash and preening Dragonborn who specialized in fighter Close Burst exploits (Come and Get it, Action Point, Thicket of Blades?), and he also took Potent Challenge. Marking massive groups of people (thank you, Dread Reaper) and...

I'm very interested in seeing your work on this, but I have to admit, that to my mind, the stochastic analysis will "simply" be giving a more accurate analysis of the same variables that a DPR calculation tries to analyze. While that more accurate analysis will certainly be more useful than...

I would suggest going over the dwarf, tiefling, and fire genasi feats, perhaps, and selecting some from each. Duergar have diverged fairly strongly from Dwarves, and I think that their feat selection should reflect that. I don't think you would want to allow them access to all dwarf feats...

I really wish people would simply STOP arguing around each other on this point. One side seems to be consistently arguing that you can't take ANY actions, including FREE Actions, after a Charge, on your turn, unless the action in question specifically says that you can. The other side seems to...