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Man, I would hate to have the guy attempting to "embody the concept" of "Chant" in my adventuring party. Okay, okay, we get it, you're chanting, now shut up already!

I'm not terribly surprised — they said June somethingth when they first ran out, probably based on the automatic assumption that all they needed to do was order some more. But as we know, the print run was all used up, and it's not like they magically were going to get the new ones out of the air.

Quoted for awesome.

Well, I think I'd be inclined to leave it alone exactly because it has minimal impact. Why house rule when you don't have to? Instead, if the problem is that there's not much of a culture, add some interesting eladrin culture background to your campaign world. And maybe a player had an...

Have you tried it? It may feel painfully irrational, but in my experience it makes movement during play about moving rather than about counting, which is a huge win in practice. As discussed elsewhere, +2 to any stat is a huge increase to any race and I don't think it should be taken lightly...

Many sorcerer concepts are fairly easily served by the warlock class. Arguably in many cases, better. In fact (see recent post in 4E house rules forum for more) I think warlock probably would have just been named sorcerer, if the 3.5E warlock class experiment hadn't been published in a...

I dunno. Is a gentle reminder harder than being condescending? You're right, and I apologize.

I'd like to see them published in DDI after basic playtesting, and fully-done versions in PH2 next summer. If significant changes turn out to be needed along the way, those should be published online as soon as possible too. If they start doing this, I'll second-guess my plan to not pay for DDI.

This seems to me like the people claiming that the 3E Psychic Warrior class was uber-powerful. Really, it kinda sucked, but there's a few horribly broken combos that one can pull off with it. I'm not sayin' the above combo is broken, but I'm not impressed by the ability to make one or two...

I'm actually serious. What is the desired goal of the sorcerer class? In 3E, it's originally simply so that 1/3 of the book — the wizard spells — can be shared with something else. Then, that mechanical need led to what turned out to be some rather interesting other mechanics (cha-based...

even easier Take the warlock class. Cross out "warlock". Write in "sorcerer". All done!

Right, that's exactly what I'm trying to avoid having to resort to. :D

Addendum: if someone wants to convert their character but doesn't have the ability scores or for some other reason can't meet the prereqs of the needed multiclass feat, I'd let them immediately rebuild their character so they do at the beginning of the process. Then, they could take the...

Hmmm. The fact that the filename says it is "editabel" makes me slightly suspicious about the accuracy of the calculations in general. :)

Hmmm. If it's a morph-in-and-out sorta class, interesting. For a one-time conversion, though, I'm actually very strongly in support of allowing any player who wants to do it to be able to. (See this post — although also, I'd allow someone who really wanted to do it to retrain their ability...

If I wanted to try the carrot approach instead of the stick, I might try allowing players to use more than one action point per encounter. This encourages pressing on to get a milestone so you can accumulate multiple points to spend.

I'm going to use the Dragon and Dungeon pdfs, but have no interest in the rest of it.

The little bar on Extend Rest says you don't have to sleep every time, but the text afterward says "You need at least 6 hours of sleep every day to keep functioning at your best. If, at the end of an extended rest, you haven’t slept at least 6 hours in the last 24, you gain no benefit from that...

I think both of these will eventually be officially "fixed" with additional feats.

The suggested rules there will probably make sense once the 4E Arms and Equipment Guide/Magic Item Compendium book (to be called Adventurer's Vault, I guess) is out. Right now, I found it an excercise in frustration, as there's relatively few items of any given level. It works better to just...