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As do I. However, I believe they should make the monster do things that are interesting and worthwhile *and* give us plausible narration for those things. All I want is for them to give me an "official" description of what's going on that I can offer to my players. Based on the preview text...

Me neither. I would rule that a character who can no longer take actions (perhaps by being unconscious, or stunned, etc.) could no longer choose to not make the save. Specifically, for my home games I might word the power as: "At the end of your turn, you can use a free action to choose not to...

I think artificers are okay, but they don't resonate strongly with me. They don't really feel like they are making things, and I don't care for their healing mechanic.

I'll just have the slaying stone work outside of the town.

Actually, KotS does have a room with a riddle: I'd also say area 7, the Skeletal Legion, has a puzzlish riddle: I think KotS gets a lot of unfair treatment. Yes, yes, it could definitely be improved, and I have several ideas on doing just that. But the adventure went perfectly fine for our...

My subscription lapsed and I had been intending to renew it in time for the star pact article scheduled for later this week. But this rumor pushed me over the edge. :lol: I hope I didn't screw up by resubbing during an update ... I haven't yet gotten access to DDI - does it take a day or two...

True, such cavaliers can always pray to or even serve Ilmater. But a paladin of sacrifice who seeks to emulate Ilmater (that is, among other things, be of Good alignment instead of LG) technically cannot, even though such a concept is quite plausible.

IIRC, yes, he was LG. But alignments in 4e are not exactly the same as alignments in previous editions. This suggests to me that the people who designed the 4e FRCS felt that 4e's Good alignment was at least as appropriate (if not more so) for a god of suffering than 4e's LG alignment...

I do think the cavalier pops more than the 4e paladin, but I will need some time to come to a decision on whether or not I like it. One thing that does make me go "bwuh?" is that paladins of sacrifice must be lawful good. Does Ilmater, the "merely" Good Forgotten Realms god of suffering...

I feel like the battlemind and ardent could fit reasonably well in the same class (both classes are even described as being impetuous and emotion-driven). Perhaps the class would have defender and leader builds, much like how the Essentials fighter has defender and striker builds. Invokers...

I've played an Essentials knight for two sessions now and I'm loving it. I'm never going to back to pre-Essentials classes, and I may never play a class with daily powers again. I'm not stupid, I simply disagree with the concept and would remove them from all classes if I could. All that...

I'm not sure what the technical hurdles for this would be, but I'd like some kind of online interface. That way we wouldn't have to download Character Builder updates, and we could access content from any computer (much like what we can do with the Compendium). So an online Character Builder...

Correct. As long as it has total concealment (in this case, invisibility) it can try to become hidden later. Just as a side note, Skill Challenges are another thing, different from merely rolling checks of, say, Perception vs Stealth. Skill Challenges are used to represent tense negotiations...

True, although Alumni articles usually pertain to some recently released bit of content, either in a book or in an article. It could be relevant to the Temple of the Radiant Morn adventure this month - perhaps the strange, "peaceful" church is run by Zehir's agents. (although, admittedly, this...

I'm a little ambivalent about this power. I like how it's a throwback to earlier days, when Charm Person was a low level spell. However, much like how Knock was seen as obviating the rogue, I'm concerned that a spell like Instant Friends could obviate social skill-users. I mean, why use the...

I thought the article was okay. My main criticism of it is the dwarf's dialogue didn't read, well, "dwarfy." Perhaps if the text was written in a faux Scottish accent, with a few more "lads" and spelling going as "goin'"? That might make it have a little more personality for me.

Good list - one other thing is that the blind character won't be able to make opportunity attacks.

Yeah, IMO if Essentials seeks to recapture some old school feel, one way to do it is to have paladins with Cha as their best score. However, this time around Cha can "do something" directly relevant to paladin attacks, as opposed to being "merely" an extra requirement. But for me the biggest...

I'm really looking forward to this, too. I'm hoping it'll be Cha Primary, Str (or Con) secondary. I don't know what they'll do regarding paladin marking, but it it's anything like the knight it'll be a "mark without marking" thing. Perhaps, once per turn, paladins can apply divine sanction...

Upgrading Scorching Burst is easy - just change the damage type on Freezing Burst from cold to fire, scratch out "Freezing" and write in "Scorching," and you're good to go. I don't have the Red Box, so I don't know what Stoneblood does.