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Well, while I know Shaman is great, I do not choose that this time as there are 2 shamans in the campaigns I am DMing and another one in a campaign I am attending as a player. Also, I played a melee/ranged artificer in the past. Now I am leaning toward either Bow/Crossbow Bard or Warlord. But...

Well, Item rarity rule is still incomplete. WotC has shown the first "Those are commons, others are uncommons" list. Then introduced Holy Avenger as an example of Rare items. So we did not even know which item will become common, uncommon or rare, for sure. Also, WotC is still not show details...

If "All Essentials" does mean "Essentials Only", yeah, I don't see much need in Melee Training feats. If "All Essentials" does mean "All Essentials + All previous materials", then Melee Training is needed, or at least useful for some builds. Say, Avengers who does not worship gods of Skill...

Thank you for advices. While Bard seems to be a good class indeed (and I actually seen many good melee or melee/ranged implement bard working), I have one concern. As I said in the first post, the party is melee-heavy. And non of the at-will powers of Bard seems to help melee combatants much...

Well, IMHO, in regard to such fluffs, we cannot talk "How it should be". It is a matter of taste, indeed. Your play group would better discuss about this and decide how your play group want to treat this issue. If you make a race to be "considered to be evil by most of the people", then it...

Well, the last Friday our party's Warlord has died. Now his player is considering to create a new PC, possibly a Minotaur Monk, but not sure at this moment. Anyway, our party will likely to lose Leader PC. So I am thinking of playing one myself (my current PC is one of 2 defenders in the...

Well, neither of them will work as they are. You need to your own homework somehow. Both usual monsters and DMG NPCs are indeed monsters and meant to be used as an opponent in combat encounter. And they are not meant to adventure with PCs for a long time. They will fight well in an combat...

That is why some warden prefer to use a reach weapon instead of using shield and one-handed weapon. And even if you are using a reach weapon, it doesn't work against a foe which shifts and then charges onto an ally far away. But that does not mean a warden is not good at defending. For...

Yep. Even if well-optimized, Companion Characters are in overall a little bit weaker than PCs as they lack action points and dailies. But at least they fill the necessary role, and durable enough as they have better NADs than PCs in average. And still, in some part, they can do something better...

I guess it will depend largely on both encounter design and each DM's way of controlling monsters. And also depends on the configuration of each party. As a DM, I usually let trigger CC at least about once per encounter, I guess. When a monster has something better to do than to continue...

It seems that not just Fighter (Knight) but other Essentials defenders have Defender Aura instead of marking. I think this is a good move. What will be the "method of punishment" of Cavalier, then? Will they be some kind of automatic damage like Divine Challenge/Sanction?

I am not sure about it, because I don't think Srt/Con dwarf is "too efficient". They have indeed the worst NADs (remember Goliath and Warforged have +1 to will. Str/Con Minotaur may be sub-per, but that is a different story). Also, we have now many feats, features, items and such which ignores...

I am a DM who did not felt that "grinding" issue much from the beginning of 4e. IMHO the monsters' stats were indeed just a part of that problem, if any. The entire encounter and battlefield design, and DM's way of using monsters affected much on if such a boring combat happens or not. Anyway...

WotC has been making many changes to similar monsters when new MM, other supplements or new adventure is released. And they just made new monsters, and not issued updates to older ones unless that is really broken. For example, MM1 trolls and MM2 trolls are much different. The former is very...

Str/Con could be a good option as Dragonborn has two racial ability tied to Con. But I guess for that very reason WotC may hesitate to make Dragonborn into a high Con race. High Con dragonborn maybe too efficient. Also, there are so many Str/Con races (Dwarf, Goliath & Warforged). Considering...

Well, I like Companion character rule in DMG 2 much. It really helps when we don't have enough number of players, or when some NPC (I am using this word as not as the strict rule term for 4e here) co-operate with PCs for some reasons. It especially working well for our "come when you can...

Now they have introduced this new "domain" rule for clerics. What will happen to the older domain rules in Divine Power? I like the structure of the newer rules much, though.

Well, it may not be an appropriate answer to your question. But I will just wait till WotC issues complete list of rarities for magic items, and more importantly, more detailed rules for Item Rarity. This rule change is still not clear how it meant to work. Say, how we should make treasure...

Hi. The DM for our monthly session caught cold and I must be a pinch hitter DM on this friday (in Japanese time, so I have basically only 1 day for preparation). In this monthly session we usually play a one-shot adventure which takes 6-8 hours. So, we have been mainly playing Adventures from...

Will the next 2 Heroes books also contain character creation and basic rules? Or just new races, builds & new options like PHB2/3? If not, "buying one of the heroes books" will not work for a player. Another concern of mine is the starting cost for a newbie DM. Pre-essentials, to be a DM which...