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Incorrect. The rules for Invisible creatures are separate from the rules for creatures using Stealth to hide. If they wanted all of the same conditions to apply, they would have just said "Because an Invisible creature has total concealment, it may use the Stealth skill even if it doesn't have...

His starting stats (pre-race) are 10 str, 11 con, 18 dex, 10 int, 14 wis, 8 cha. After racial stats, that's 20 dex and 16 wis. He puts +1 in both stats at every 4 and 8 level, and +1 in all stats at 11 and 21. In addition, at level 21, his Demigod status gives him the special trait Divine Spark...

Wizards, Warlords, and Warlocks I'll give you. They have a use for Intelligence. No one else is going to dump Dex when they could dump Int instead. Dex is unquestionably a better stat than Int. It does everything Int does AND adds to Initiative (except for skills, where it doesn't really matter...

Because you posted it in the 4E rules forum. It has nothing at all to do with 4E rules. You're discussing design principles.

Wrong forum.

Improvised weapons. The fighter can pummel a guy with his fists, and the ranger can throw rocks. They aren't as effective as a sword or bow, but you can play either class naked and use all of their class features.

To be fair, wizards don't need ritual books. Spellbooks can also hold rituals.

As someone who has run Rise of the Runelords (my group is on module 5 now), I wouldn't be too worried about leveling at the wrong speed. I have actually skipped several sections of the modules so far and it really hasn't hurt my players much.

For the record, I started a thread in the 4E rules forum about this, both to get insight from other people and to clear this thread of it. The spellbook discussion thread is here.

So, we're having a friendly little discussion in a PbP game about whether Wizards (and Clerics) get free Spell/Ritual books. The Wizard's Spellbook Class Feature and the Cleric's Ritualist Class Feature both state "You possess a spellbook/ritual book" (respectively). Nowhere else in the PHB is...

I think the Cleric point is the most telling. It uses the same language - "You possess a ritual book" - and it is impossible to buy a ritual book, any kind of armor, a weapon, a holy symbol, and an adventuring kit with 100g. They cost 50 + 25 minimum + 1 minimum + 10 + 15 = 101 minimum (and...

Uh... yeah there are. On all the classes with dual primary stats, there's always at least 1 power at every tier for each primary stat. In almost all cases, there are 2 of each.

Immeral nar Rayya, Eladrin Ranger Immeral nar Rayya Male Eladrin Ranger 1 Alignment: Unaligned Deity: Sehanine Region: Evenfall Height: 6'0" Weight: 165 lbs Hair: Silver, worn in an intricate braid interwoven with colorful scraps of fabric, strips of fur, and beads Eyes: Pale jade green Skin...

I'd go so far as to say that it's intended for you to pick one ability score and cherry pick (if you pick any at all) from the powers that use the other score.

Invisible creatures are not hidden. The rules are very, very clear that invisibility offers two things: Total Concealment from creatures that cannot see you (truesight). A Stealth vs Passive Perception check to be completely undetected. Creatures can choose to make active Perception checks to...

My suggested fix, a couple pages back, was "You become invisible until the end of the encounter or until you are hit by an attack". You can still dance through auras that way, but any attack will break the effect, and there are few epic-tier encounters that don't have at least one AOE monster...

The Wizard Class Feature starts with "You possess a spellbook". I think it's intended (as in 3.5) that wizards get their initial spellbook for free. I don't think they have a 50% class tax. Up to you, of course, but I'm pretty sure that's the intent of the rules, at least.

First, I want to apologize for starting the thread off on a diversion before it even gets started, but I had to respond to this... Unfortunately, that isn't a character that is at all effective. Unarmed attacks do not get a proficiency bonus (so they're 10-15% to hit behind an armed attack)...

I disagree. I actually think Archer Rangers are the top damage at the moment, barring the brokenness that is Blade Cascade.

No, the greatness of the Cloak of Invisibility is that you DON'T have to have maxed out everything to use it well. Just Skill Training will make your Stealth equal the Perception of all but a bare handful of monsters. You don't really NEED to add anything else to it - and how many characters put...