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I would swap out Consecrated Ground for Astral Condemnation or Iron to Glass. Guardian's Counter isn't going to do a whole lot for you since it just redirects an attack to you; unless you pick up Sonnlinor's Hammer, you won't have a melee basic attack to speak of and afterwards you'll be in...

I just think it should be "when wielded by a non-tiny creature". Seeing as how I had to read it about 5 times to get the intended meaning, I disagree about how well it gets it's point across. But most people seem to the drift so I must be weird. :)

How so? You can't even use basic attacks without ending the power and all it gets you is speed 8 or climb 6 (the owlbear gives you neither of those, though). Sure, it gives your allies another source for your pet's buff area, but do you really want to go the an appreciable amount of time...

In my experience, people ban 4e material in general based on emotional biases instead of empirical decision-making. There's a number of DMs that blanket ban tons of sources instead of having a conversation about the level of optimization they want or don't want to see.

Hmm. The thing that confused me was the last sentence of shrink. I think it ought to say, "When other creatures wield a shrunken item, it functions for them as a one-handed improvised weapon."

Mearls still didn't clarify the shrink issue.

You mean something like the fighter feat that gives basic attacks the rattling keyword? It never got used before, but now you can have a knight whose every attack is rattling. Of course, the downside is that you're still a knight. Basically, Essentials hasn't made any huge waves in the...

Oh, you mean a theme. So if your DM allows themes and if your DM hands you a specific rare item, you have a very good AP nova. That's pretty powerful, but it shouldn't be game-breaking. There are classes in essentials with very good basic attacks. How does that make basic attacks in general...

I have yet to see a background that gives a bonus to basic attacks. If he's got another item, well, he's already got an item bonus, so it won't do too much good. And, if anything, a race from Dragon Magazine would be worse for this exercise because it most likely wouldn't have a...

-2 AC and Reflex is the penalty for wearing armor you're not proficient with. So any time you put on a shield it applies the penalty and if you are actually proficient it adds a further bonus to cancel out the penalty.

This is what I don't get about his articles. He keeps suggesting things like, "This is what we should do going forward!" But they're all things the 4e devs already did and he doesn't acknowledge that at all. I guess he's trying to keep the articles edition-neutral, but it just makes him sound...

Monks are not naturally very good interrupters. If you really want to mess with enemies, there are a few builds that have tons of interrupting options. A prescient bard has an interrupt class feature to give an ally a defense boost and has powers like Arrow of Warning and Rhyme of the...

The spirit companion is not a creature, so it doesn't make attacks on its own. Some shaman attacks will say "Melee spirit 1" or "Close Burst Spirit 2" This indicates that the attack originates from the spirit companion, not the shaman.

That is correct. If a single ranged or melee attack deals more damage than that amount, then the spirit companion disappears and doesn't provide any benefits until the shaman summons it again. The power specifies that the spirit companions has defenses equal to yours. Nope, see above. Yes...

The heavy thrown property affects ranged basic attacks only. Other powers always use whatever ability score indicated by their Attack: line. But yes, throwing a dwarven thrower double axe with Twin Strike should work fine.

Sounds like they planned for it to have no speed penalty, but wound up going with something else and forgot to change the flavor text. It happens.

Yep, that's what we did, right down to the Sudden Recovery armor.

We played this with a party of 4 Genasi Wizard|Artificers. Round 1 looked like this: each party member cast Icebound Sigil on their Staff of Missile Mastery, activated their +2 whetstone, and started the Wizard's Fury. Rounds 2 through 9 consisted of pew pew pew. 15 damage twice a round...

One solution I've seen is to allow passive perception to alert the PCs to the existence of a trap, but they have to roll active perception to actually find the individual pressure plates and whatnot.

I remember looking at this some time ago, but I don't have my books handy, so I'm not 100% sure. However, I recall that my conclusion was that if you're using the Ki Focus' enhancement bonus, you can't use the weapon's magic properties. It might be worth picking up a +2... can't remember what...