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I wonder if the hunter ranger build will be anything like the hunter class from Iron Heroes. The hunter class had a lot of abilities described as utilizing terrain to his best advantage, and my thoughts are that the hunter ranger will borrow heavily from that.

Yes, I have used inherent enhancement bonuses. I use them in conjunction with magic items. I love them - now I no longer have to worry about making sure every PC has a magic weapon they can use. Sure, a magic weapon gives various other benefits aside from the bonus attack and damage, but at...

The way I read it, the bolded part only applies to encounter full discipline powers.

I read the "cans" in the last sentence as meaning "You can (if you want to)..." It's just highlighting the fact that you have options. Yeah, this is how I read it. In the last paragraph of the Full Discipline entry in the compendium: So if you have the two move actions to spare, you can do...

I, too, lament Fireball's loss of grandeur. I wouldn't want it to be overpowered compared to other dailies, but I think the various Fireball variants that knock creatures prone and/or push creatures are fun and might give back a bit of the crazy, encounter-changing feel that older versions of...

I'd probably make it a no check minor action if the ally was willing, a standard action Thievery check if the ally was not.

I got your back. EDIT: Xp ninja'd by JoeGKushner. Oh well, MerricB probably deserves at least 2 points. :)

Mike Mearls ruined that Escapist blogger's reptuation as an interviewer.

Some forced movement powers specify size limits. For example, the push rider on Tide of Iron can only be used on creatures your size, smaller than you, or one size category larger. So a halfling fighter can't push an ogre with this exploit. However, another way to think about forced movement...

I must admit, when I read this thread's title in the 4e discussion forum list of threads, I saw "Longest Encounter Yeti" ... :blush:

If 4e was doing well, they shouldn't need to hire more people - what they have should be enough.

The Essentials ranger might have spellcasting capability, but I think the controller version of ranger will just use combat skill. I bet they'll have some forced movement powers, close bursts, powers fluffed as traps or exploiting terrain, and so on. My question is what ability will they use...

Even if diviners or abjurers were Leaders, I wouldn't want them to do hp healing, either. But I think it would be interesting to have leader (sub)classes that don't actually heal hps. That is, they would have no equivalent of Healing Word. Obviously, they would have to give out enough buff...

Yeah, I'm looking foward to the other domains as well. I could also see a lightly armored cleric that uses a less war-like domain (Love or something) but has greater healing power. Yeah, that would be cool. I think the battlefront warlord from MP2 is a good foundation for a fighter with a...

Basically, each time a monster or PC acts is a turn. A round is essentially composed of the turns of several creatures. Before, rogues could apply Sneak Attack only once per round. Now, in a combat with 10 creatures (say, 5 PCs and 5 monsters), the rogue can now potentially get 10...

I think you're in for a disappointment. 4e gods are their own thing, and while they may have similarities to their counterparts in earlier editions, there is no guarantee all similarities will transfer over to the current edition. Somewhat related to a putative Moon domain for Essentials...

Yes. I'm not a fan of power cards anymore. I'd like more compact lines of text, arranged according to action type. "Power strips" as I like to call them.

Yeah, if the group wanted to continue on, maybe the DM would have it so the ettin took the PCs prisoner, knocking them into unconsciousness instead of killing them.

I'd like Cha and Str/Con (with Cha being the Draconic Resilience booster instead of Con) My thoughts are Con and Cha/Wis I'm hoping for Dex and Str/Con Dex and Int/Cha wouldn't surprise me (to keep it like elves and eladrin). My hope as well. :)

I think they might be going that direction, based on this quote: