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I'm with the folks who are seeing the 977 figure as meaning people in the town and all surrounding farmers, hunters, and the like. The actual town itself is more a common gathering/trade point, a base of operations for a local militia, where the local government (such as it is) exists, and a...

What I don't understand is why you are grinding this axe in my skull when I am basically agreeing with you. The differences between a controller and a defender in terms of playstyle and feel seem pretty distinct to me. However if one wanted to twist and stretch definitions and terms...

1. If a definition of a controller is one who "limits what an enemy can do on the battlefield" then what a defender does can be described as "melee range controlling" if one wanted to torture and twist definitions sufficiently. 2. My entire post was largely satire aimed at the OP with the point...

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While the OP's post is full of... well it isn't win, he does have something of a point. A defender uses their special abilities to exert an influence over the actions of their enemies, all with an end in mind of making sure said enemy attacks them or at least cannot get past them and to the...

It would seem to me that "Astraljamming" would be an epic-level setting. Sailing the high seas of the Astral Sea is not an endeavor I'd recommend for level 1 characters. Of course, even though a level 1 character could technically "spelljam" it still wouldn't be something I'd recommend...

The weighted system has the drawback of being a little harder to explain to younger players, which is why I might lean towards the 22pt-non-scaling-cost system. I'll be running at least one of my campaigns with the following: Me (DM) Fiance (Player) My Daughter (12) Fiance's Son (13) My Oldest...

It could be argued that a warlord makes a cleric redundant and vice-versa already. Both are leader classes and each capable of substituting for the other. Along the same lines this applies to fighter/paladin and to ranger/rogue/warlock. The entire point is that a class in a given role should...

Thinking about it, I'd have to agree with the idea of 4e seeming incomplete in terms of class selection. More classes are coming down the pipe, and yes unless they were superfluous their absence would be noticed. However what is not missing is playstyle, or "what my character does in a fight...

Like another poster said, if the exact class doesn't exist in 4e to cover an existing 3e character you can either wait until more 4e material comes out (and it will) to cover it, you could create your own material, or you can see if the general concept of the character can be made to fit in...

"Barbarian" can be a class, or it can be a description of a culture like it was for millenia prior to D&D or other RPGs being invented. Prior to 3e, in fact even prior to 2e, there was only "fighter" (well, ok, there was "elf", and "dwarf" too ;)). Fighter was used as a class to portray...

On the subject of "stronger when angrier" I'm wondering how often this happens and how substatial the effect is. If a character is always, or nearly so, angry then isn't it just asking for a permanent strength (or +hit/damage) boost (or maybe it is an explanation for feats that do the...

Druid's have been hinted at being "primal strikers", and sorcerers (if primal too) fit as "primal controllers". Shamans are a natural "primal leader". This leaves barbarian as a "primal defender". As for literacy, there are two ways I think are good to handle it. 1) Unless the character...

He starts off as a warlord, and then eventually starts dabbling in magic. He finds magic difficult to control at first, almost too wild for him, so his dabbling in magic remains minimal. Over time though, he starts to master the arcane and devotes himself more and more to it. As he does so...

Interesting, and yes a definite gestalt... but I have a question. Why bother with special rules for a combined class and document it as such? Just make a gestalting rules if desired. 4e Gestalt Choose any two classes and combine them into a single class for advancement purposes. All...

Like someone else said... stop thinking about 3.5e classes and start thinking about the end result. While you like to think of the character as a wizard who picks up other stuff, the rest of how you actually describe the character functioning is at odds with that. A 4e wizard has lots of...

That's seven paragon feats, not seven feats period. Three feats come from paragon levels, up to four others can be retrained into paragon feats, the rest presumably can be left at the heroic tier.

Start from your goal, how the character will play and what portion of their abilities come from what sources. Your original description read as a character who primarily did damage via melee with a big sword (striker) and that this person had an array of magical spells they used to specifically...

We're coming at this from two different angles I think, which is fine really. Dodge and other dexterity-related forms of damage avoidance strike me as being at odds with how I'd perceive the iconic defender type. The fact that heavy armor neutralizes dexterity bonuses to armor reinforces that...

Yes, but what effect are the powers that give them that AC trying to represent? Remember the original rules minus fluff supported the idea of a paladin using divine challenge on a target and then trying to keep away/run away from the thing they challenged. The spirit of the paladin ability was...