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Hmmm. I'd like to hear a little bit more about why the "cure disease" ritual doesn't work.

Yep.

Okay, so the one that really jumps out at me is the dragonborn's racial ability, where you choose the ability score you want to use in a very similar way. The elven reroll ability is different, but also worth a lot more than this (especially given that you can use it on a big daily power). In...

How does this differ in 3E? In 3E you're basically in trouble without the DM making up some options for you. There may be some prestige classes that open up to you, but in general this isn't really a workable option without some DM involvement to fit the situation. Same thing with 4E — see my...

I'm still not convinced, but I never convinced myself the other way either. What would you suggest as a more minor improvement, if any? And given the addition of said minor improvement, would the suggested feat still be balanced? (I agree with you, by the way, that making +2 Con into +2...

This weights non-combat skills heavily in favor of the wizard and slightly towards the warlord. I suggest either making an inherent penalty for classes with Int as a primary skill (currently, just wizard), or not basing it on Int — either just a flat number, or allow high Cha to let you get...

So, if one does want the "triple threat" approach (or at least double threat) I think 4E lends itself pretty well to the "gestalt character" house rule option. I think this'd be pretty silly in a party of normal size, but if you've only got a couple of players might be an interesting way to go —...

Yeah, see, on the one hand we have this complaint, and then on the other hand scads of threads complaining that the game encourages dump stats and requires only that your single primary stat be high. Turns out, not when you look at the whole picture.

Well, they get an additional at-will power from their own class, where presumably there's a match for one of their high stats. As I understand it, what you're saying is that you agree that the half-elf could stand to be slightly bolstered, but that the only reason is that they don't have a...

Drow are iconic enough that I bet we'll see different instances of them in future books. For now, though, turn to the back of the book and find exactly what you want under "Racial Traits". There's your first level drow, and then follow Customizing Monsters in the DMG up to level 5. For levels...

Ugh, still in zipped pdfs rather than just the plain pdf. I was happy to see the new Dragon/Dungeon articles stopped doing that. Also the way it's titled "Microsoft Word" is pretty classy. :) On a more serious note, I'm pretty surprised to see that the ranger Careful Strike / Twin Strike issue...

Didja see the Vecna artifacts in the DMG? Short section, but there's some good ideas there. Maybe a lot more powerful than you're looking for, but if you want it to be rare anyway....

I agree with this from a balance perspective. However, from a game as role-playing vs. tactical minis perspective, it would be ideal if, when logically relevant, skill in an out of combat area could come in handy in combat and vice versa.

My current preferred solution for this is: leave paragon multiclassing exactly as it is, except you can get it as a feat instead of by giving up your paragon path. The feat would have the same prereq — all of the power swap feats for your class.

To the contrary — they're very competent at the out-of-class features they know. In general, much more so than in 3E. They just don't have the full breadth of ability that someone with the base class would have.

Well, in fairness, this is the case with 3/3.5 too. You can mix classes with a full BAB progression basically at will, and mixing those with rogue works acceptably too. But multiclassing spellcasters is a trainwreck, even with the Practiced Spellcaster feat. So in order for those concepts to...

I think the basic feats are pretty good. Remember that feats are far less precious in this game — you get more, and they do less. The paragon path multiclass seems weak, though. Heh. The most old-school player in my gaming group basically considers this to be the only redeeming feature of 4E...

This is a good point. Unlike what I just said in my last post, paragon paths are relatively simple — a few abilities and a handful of signature powers. So, if your base class is fighter, knight could be a paragon option designed to be available to anyone with the multiclass feat. Or, if you...

Yeah, I'm not so keen on that take on things. I'd rather everyone be able to contribute some all the time and no one totally sidelined, but would still like to have situations where familiar tactics suddenly aren't effective, and situations where certain characters' strengths are highlighted...

Err, no, not clear. I get where you figure it to be worth about the same as those feats, and that all seemed sound enough. But the other races get those feats on top of a power which works, not on top of one which appears to need a fix. If it works out to be the same as the others, it's...