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Yes, all the Naruto characters are "casters" but in 4e that simply indicates a power source (arcane or divine) and not how it is used. Consider what we know already... Arcane Controller: Wizard (PHB) Arcane Defender: Swordmage (Forgotten Realms CS) Arcane Leader: Bard (PHB2?) Arcane Striker...

The "hit points ~= morale" argument also opens up the door for more kinds of "leaders" than just straight up cleric/healers which is also good. It allows for the martial leader (warlord) and the arcane leader (bard) as well as others. Players might not like the specific instantiation of an...

I find the idea that the medusa can instantly petrify a mook but not a player character since the latter is supposed to be a hero. Yes it is very cinematic, but that is perfectly in keeping with the new design philosophy that says the players are the heroes and supposed to be heroic - getting...

Being level 20 fighter and level 20 wizard at the same time is not multiclassing... it is gestalting (is that even a word?). Sure you aren't quite as powerful as two seperate characters, but you are certainly more powerful than a level 20 fighter or a level 20 wizard individually which would...

I wouldn't try to TPK them, but I do very much like the idea of making ample use of NPC defenders working with the monsters the party is fighting. Let them see how powerful/effective/freaking useful a defender can be and they'll either figure it out or they won't. The one thing I wouldn't do...

Think of starting weaker as the "opportunity cost" of being able to buy more powerful abilities later perhaps? I'm not entirely convinced that any race is crippled in effectiveness compared to the others right out of the gate, or that any apparent weakness/deficiency in starting abilities will...

One thing missing from this analysis are what race-specific feats exist for each race. A race might start with weak or strong initial abilities and then have that balanced out by the feats they have available later on.

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Instead of starting from the explanation, start from the result and work backwards. 1. We know Demogorgon is the big badass demon lord of the Abyss. 2. We know Demogorgon defeated the other demon lords to earn his station/reputation. 3. We can presume that Demogorgon has balors and other...

60/40 or any X/Y doesn't mean X levels of A and Y levels of B. It is a measure of how many of the abilities a character has come from A and how many come from B. In a 60/40 split a character with 5 abilities has 3 from A and 2 from B. With 10 abilities that is 6 and 4. In other words, it is...

In an A/B multiclass if A has more virtual feats but we group a bunch of them together so the collection of little feats is buyable with a single feat, and if in doing so we've achieved a parity where it takes X number of feats to mimic a given level of A or B, then all that's happened is we...

How does "by kicking the ass of everyone around him" automatically mean "in a fair one-on-one fight where everyone was prepared"? Is it so beyond the realm of possibility that a super-intelligent and unremittingly evil demon lord might have used trickery, surprise, or any other means of making...

Personal power isn't just being a bad-ass fighter though. A gang can be run by someone other than the absolute best and most powerful fighter. Personal charisma and ability to manipulate others would also count for a lot, also the type of terrain or other resources one has. Also knowing the...

AFAIK the "arcane defender" will be in the FRCS and will be called a "Swordmage". You would also predate me in D&D... I started when "elf" was a character class.

I wasn't talking in levels, I was talking in terms of % of abilities. If one looks at one's character sheet and 90% of the abilities come from class A and 10% of them come from class B then one is a 90/10 A/B multiclass. Hopefully that's a bit clearer. It's more like this: Class A starts...

The point I'm getting at is class A starting with more feats than B in an A/B multiclass mattering is it is reminiscent of the problems in certain kinds of multiclassing in 3e. If I want to do A with a little B I'm ok, but if I want to do B with a little A I'm suddenly gimping my character. If...

Archer is possibly the coolest captain ever. Gotta love a Star Trek series where they can't just rely on miracle-level technology to get them out of a jam.

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Feat-based multiclassing, if it is going to avoid min-max type exploiting, is going to have to depend on each individual class having the same number of "virtual feats" built into it. If starting off as class A of an A/B multiclass gives 3-4 more virtual feats than starting off as class B does...

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