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However much damage Hand of Radiance does, it's just damage. Pick up encounter powers with status effects involved, and you'll most likely find yourself using them. As for the crit damage, there aren't many implements with big damage dice... which reminds me: don't ever get a holy avenger...

In what way will Hand of Radiance be "better than many encounter powers"? You'll be able to hit multiple enemies more often than with a close burst, but you'll be doing less damage. You don't even have astral fire to boost your radiant damage, so... I don't see the big deal. Is there a...

So... what does hand of radiance do that's so powerful?

I think it's in the Eberron Player's Guide.

Who was the guy that was murdered? A king? An accomplished mage? At 14th level, investigating anything more mundane than that should be a walk in the park. Read the rituals they used. All of them below epic level have restrictions and vulnerabilities. Any serious assassin will be...

You just get the racial power when you use the armor's power. It doesn't give you anything else. It's worded that way to make it clear that you don't get to choose a different racial power each time you use the item power.

I think most people have no compunctions about giving WotC their e-mail address. I also think that most of the people that do have compunctions about it know how to register a new e-mail address for signing up to shady-looking newsletters. If you poke around the WotC website, you'll notice...

First, calculate the party's overland speed using the movement and exploration chapter. Assuming the PCs are award of the stipulations of the curse, then you should advise them of some obvious options like getting horses or casting phantom steed. I probably wouldn't frame it as a skill challenge.

Did anybody link the news article on the main page that actually includes a quotation from court papers mentioning the rumored game? It seems like if the rumor is solid enough to base a lawsuit on, there'd be some kind of evidence, but go figure.

These hobgoblins might just attack squishy humans on sight. If they listen, I'd probably run it like this: Me: The taller hobgoblin says, "Kabo chee ta-Ka" and spits. Do you speak goblin? If the player does, I'd let him roll diplomacy with arbitrary minuses for the plausibility of his...

I'll have to look at using the hybrid rules to double up on domain or arena fighting powers. Maybe there's some potential there.

Yeah, but your AC is still pretty bad and the vast majority of melee attacks are versus AC.

Called Shot is the single biggest damage boost you will find on a Warlock with the only restriction being that it keys off of Prime Shot. But if you're vestige pact, you have ways of getting Prime Shot. Win/win!

This section... ...seems to contradict this part from the same post. The first quote implies that as a DM, you should vary your encounters: sometimes you should let the PCs laugh in the face of danger and sometimes you should put the fear of god in them. The second quote implies that you...

If you're an eladrin fighter multi'd into rogue and want use SA with your main weapon?

Personally, I think a lot of the powers printed are not really worth taking. I also believe that PHB1 has a higher percentage of terrible powers than later publications. I further believe that Betelgeuse was waxing in the house of Virgo, causing a convergence of suck in paladin utility powers...

His AC cannot be very good. Archers that are out of reach ought to put the hurt on him.

Invisibility is not "you completely fade from view and leave no visual traces whatsoever". It's more like good adaptive camouflage (aka "Predator ripples") that makes you mostly unseeable. Really, it's almost exactly like the invisibility effect from the Predator movies. When he wanted to...

Most people won't just take a feat for the hell of it. They want to get some benefit out of it. More powerful = more likely to be taken. There was a Design & Development article about Dragonmarks about this.

I don't really see much of a problem. I think everyone can agree that THPs ought to go away after an extended rest, but aside from that, once the character gets hit, those THPs are gone. Now, if your artificer is slapping resistive formula on the battlerager in the morning and he's spamming...