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That's right. But you will rarely be using basic attacks. Unless you have high strength and low dex (which seems foolish), you'll be using powers (like deft strikes) to take your standard actions. So in reality, you end up using dex. For opportunity attacks, you're stuck with STR though. No...

Huh? What's the point then?

Are you certain? I'd think shuriken were equivalent to weapons with the 'load free' property.

That's pretty much comparable to replacing due to multiclassing, so I guess it's the same thing (replace both powers)

I think it's pretty evident that 4th edition shifts the focus for the 'skill' aspect of the game from character creation to character usage. In 3rd, the deciding factor behind a characters', and particularly a martial character's, effectiveness was the build. Builds ranged from...

Not neccesarily. Your cover is determined from one corner of your square to all corners of your enemy's square, and vice verca. If a covering object is in the way of a part of your square, you have cover, but your enemy will not have cover. Which makes sense from a realism viewpoint.

A life not spent killing stuff? :)

That and improved ring usage. And the ability to use action points several encounters in a row without another rest. While milestones still cant trumph a good nights sleep, they reduce the incentive to rest ridiculously often.

Actually, by the rules as written, shift does not provoke OA when you leave a square adjacent to an enemy. One could argue, however, that letting the fighter get another opportunity attack each round by just shifting away was not the intended interpretation of the rules.

Or rather, never made that description because it's not a premade. But yeah, powers with the reliable keyword aren't expended on a miss. See page 55 in the PHB.

You write pairs (or triplets with expanded spellbook) of spells on your sheet, then you mark one spell from each set every time you prepare. It is. Compare it to the vancian method and its nothing. Even with expanded spellbook, you'll be keeping track of a lot fewer spells than a mid-level...

Slightly wavy pages here. There's a single instance of a few smudged letters that I've been able to find (store handling, maybe), but I haven't been able to smudge it myself. So either it was wet ink that has dried now, or my hands are insufficiently toxic :)

Yes. As a rule of thumb, if no sensible powergamer would ever NOT take a power, its probably too powerful.

The fighter does get to use two kinds of weapon though, for twice the special-power goodness.

Yeah. I think the key here is that they are unaligned, not neutral. A good character takes a moral standpoint of his own that is different from Bahamuts. An unaligned character does not take a standpoint of his own, he just does what Bahamut tells him to do. I'd say that a character who is...

Isn't that sort of the point though? To force the PCs to waste time and powers on the little guy, and to give them some use for their cool powers-that-go- boom. I thought that was what minions where for. If they posed a significant treat on their own, they'd hardly be minions.

Nope, not above what a 1-handed weapon would deal. Not unless they're versatile. I haven't crunshed the numbers, but apart from the better attack bonus, you could be a fighter and want the heavy blade benefits.

It's more than one enemy, but it says "once per round" and "that enemy". So I'd go with only dealing the damage once.