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At least some of the power swap feats beyond the initial one. Not sure if they'll all go with the next three or beyond. I'm 90% sure, though, that making the paragon multiclass option be in addition to a paragon path is gonna be my second house rule. (Giving a deity-specific feat to clerics for...

I was a little surprised not to find an existing thread for this, but maybe I missed it. Has anyone done some rules for using hex grids in 4E? It immediately comes to mind that bursts get scaled down slightly (well, a lot, but in a way that scales with the number of enemies that can be there...

I dunno. I think multiclassing as it is is reasonably attractive — certainly several of my players are already telling me that that's their plan for my upcoming game and I haven't house-ruled anything yet. The paragon path requirements could use fixing, and the paragon multiclass trade-off cost...

Yeah, although in most cases you'll want that to be at least your secondary stat. I mean, from a min-max point of view, which is why we have this thread at all, right?

I want PDFs. I want them to be just like the paper books, so that what I look at on screen is easy to reference later at the game table in the books. I want them to work when I don't have internet access — when I'm travelling, but more crucially, in the MBTA tunnels, as I do much of my prep on...

It's a skill rather than a Fort-defense attack to keep it constitution rather than strength. And I think being able to be trained in it makes sense; something as simple as holding your breath for a long time can be increased by practice. Surviving in difficult environments, even more so.

Either that or we don't know what we're talking about yet. :)

Keep in mind that the default setting has only a few languages by design. If language has a more important role in your game, a corresponding rule to expand language abilities makes sense.

So, part of the problem is that "warlord" isn't a great name for the class. I don't think "smart, tactical fighter" — I think minor military leader who has carved out a despotic regime in a war-torn region. Barbarian leader, although optionally with at least pretentions to sophistication...

unhelpful nerd post (sorry) I feel compelled to point out that the "second party" is the customer, so although it's obvious on reading your post that you don't mean that at all, the subject implies fan-created content.

... Only if he really wants to.

It'll be interesting to see if they eventually resort to having base classes which use powers from other classes, or if a class like that will have its whole own set of unique powers (slightly-like-but-different?).

And so, if you want a rogue or archer with high Int, what then? (More problematic than fighter with Int, because you're chosing a secondary stat that's almost completely covered up by your primary stat, not chosing between two secondary stats with slightly different weight.) I guess currently...

At this point, yeah — since we haven't really played with the non-modified rules for very long yet, there's not too much group knowledge about how modifications might work out.

It might not matter so much with +1 to two stats every 4 levels/tier, but 13 is a lot more desirable than 12 for feat access. So, 16 16 13 11 10 8 might be better from a practical point of view — you can then concentrate on putting your every-4 plusses into your top two stats, and the +1-to-all...

Actually, I think it's exactly from a roleplaying consideration that I'm concerned. I don't want a player who chooses to be smart and fast to be penalized for choosing that over smart-strong or smart-tough. Isn't one of 4E's concepts supposed to be that there aren't hidden suboptimal choices...

I bet not. That'd basically be admitting defeat.

So, I understand the basic intention behind having the Dex/Int, Str/Con, Cha/Wis overlap for defenses. It makes me a little bit sad, but okay, from a practical point of view, I can live with it. The main casualty, though, as discussed in a thread on the WotC forums, seems to be the "fast-smart"...

Ooh, I like that one. It keeps the "multiclass is your paragon path" feel while still letting you have character build options. But my guess is that future books are going to offer more and more cool paragon paths (like the prestige class explosion in 3E), making giving that option up seem more...

I think mostly relatively general, since it's not really intended to be a highly detailed part of the game. Since I expect actually-really-useful circumstances to come up fairly rarely (as they do in 3E, where I've done a similar thing — every player automatically gets max ranks in one such...