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I'll have to make a decision when I read the full fluff text on those halfling racial powers. I'll admit my gut reaction is these powers are meant to reflect "I'm trying to avoid you" rather than "I'm good at dodging you". The former is inconsistent with the defender's "you shall not pass"...

Not so much really. Dwarves seem more inclined to be the "best" defenderish race. They can use second wind as a minor action, when pushed they move one less space, they also get combat bonuses against large size and bigger creatures. Halfling racial bonuses are consistent with "nimble and not...

Ok a character that is primarily a melee combatant, with little personal defenses and relying primarily on spells to enhance his offense without necessarily having big controllerish abilities like web, sleep, and so forth. If I have summarized what you've described accurately, I'd either make...

I was about to say that the second G would be Githyanki or Githzerai given we are told psionics will be in the PHB2. However, I do think one of those "G's" will be gnomes. Drow seems like a safe bet... except drow as a race are going to be statted out in the FRCS and putting them there and in...

People are comparing feats, but not considering the fact that level 30 in 4e is equivilent to level 20 in 3e. Whatever a character's level in 3e is, the 4e level is 150% (3/2) of it. This means that 4e is getting feats even more quickly than 3e. # 3e Feats = (3e level)/3 (round down) + 1 (+1...

The problem is that the concept of multiclassing is that the sum of the power of each class combined equates to the power of a single-classed person of the same character level. In 3e this was not true. So while conceptually what you say makes sense, the implementation in mechanics for 3e did...

In that case you create a power source and call it "Force" or "The Force" and then build classes around it. The classes would each represent an iconic way a Jedi (or Sith) interacts with the Force. Luke Skywalker: Defender-type with a couple of controllerish abilities that could have been...

re: Multiclassing "Argh! I have to waste feats to get these benefits!" re: Racial Abilities "Argh! I have to waste feats to get these benefits!" Some folks are... well at least they're consistent right? I thought the base race abilities were decent to begin with, so I don't really see...

Well in fairness I didn't buy much of anything for 3/3.5e after about a year or so. I dabbled in it here and there, but the cumbersomeness of the game itself combined with not having a local group to game with just turned me off to it altogether. The post-War "Twins" trilogy was interesting...

I have to agree here. I used to be a mormon for a number of years, so I can definitely see the parallels and where bits of Dragonlance were clearly inspired from the stories of the LDS church. But it's no more a coversion guide for the mormons than "Disney's Aladdin" is for islam. But that...

Spelljammer as it was I enjoyed at the time, but honestly the hints about the "astral sea" and some of the artwork has me hoping that the new Spelljammer will be merged with Planescape into something fitting the epic tier of play. Sailing the astral sea sounds so much more heroic-fantasy to me...

If by "kinds of magic" you mean "power sources" then yes 4e can't do it. But if you are referring to magic relating to roles then.... Cleric(Wizard)/Paragon:Warlock A pure spellcaster type in a robe (mostly) capable of healing, nuking, and zapping. Also would have a very wide-variety of...

Actually, it was in response to "now you're stuck with a bad feat choice for a power". You aren't stuck with anything, you can always retrain feats and thus drop a bad multiclass option if desired. The benefit of the feat is being allowed to do something your character could not previously do...

I can't really say I've seen that straight-class arcane casters' abilities noticeably make the lack of spell failure for divine casters a balanced equation. But even if I were to agree in the case of the wizard, conceptually arcane spell failure for a sorcerer (who's magic is innate rather than...

So retraining applies to class-choice as well then? I inferred something like that might be consistent with the rules, but I haven't caught any specific official rules to that effect.

Because class features/powers are more potent than feats in 4e, and trading a feat to get something better than a feat with absolutely zero tradeoff translates into a character spending feats to become what amounts to a gestalt of the two classes. They have more powers than a single-class...

A poster in another thread indicated according to "RAW" (someone translate that for me please) retraining could include class as well as feats. If "RAW" means something like "run as written" (ie. no houserules) then this is specifically an advantage 4e has over prior editions of D&D. The...

3) Remove arcane spell failure or apply "spell failure" to all spell casting classes evenly. Cleric/Druid casters are already stupidly overpowered compared to arcane casters and to add insult to this they don't have spell failure. Just pointing out, you missed one.

I'm not overly stressing the old campaign settings being revisted, although I would definitely be excited to get a look at a 4e version of spelljammer. I've never had an issue inventing (or liberally stealing/adapting sources on) worlds and settings, so the idea of branding the settings as...

You don't really need a rule to go to your DM and say: "My character started off as a fighter, and I picked up the cleric multiclassing feat to reflect his religious devotion to Bahumut. However as the campaign has progressed I have come to feel that the evolution of his character is better...