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Thing is, area effect slow with no defense is a good ability. The possibility to make cratures unconsious is a really good ability. Both would be very good encounter powers, and together they should make a good daily. The reason they don't is that when these two abilities are helpfull is...

Heh, I gauged the time by how far back in archives it was, forgetting the amount of articles there have been lately.

*sigh* No wait, wrong one... Warlord Article Yes, that was several months ago, but I find it extemely unlikely they just dropped the ability.

Better at buffing, yes, sure, I expected that, but the the entire point of the roles is that if you have all four, you have ALL the basic no-brainer combat things you will need, no matter how badly the characters are created. Healing is one of those "no-brainer" things along with "some guy who...

That was pretty much my first impression, yes.

I think it's supposed to prevent things like cleave from getting the bonus damage.The powers article said that you only get bonus damage from such sources if you roll for damage, meaning it won't need that wording.

The multiclassing feats have stat prereques, and you can only take one. Warlords are supposed to be leaders, this means you shouldn't be able to create a Warlord which can't preform the basic task of healing the party. This one can't do that at first level, thus missing the entire point of the...

Marathon running has allways been con based, and fits into the idea most people have about con. Unless we're using skills that can use multiple stats (which I don't have a problem with, but we're not), you need a skill for "physical fitness/skill based off this stat", thus you have...

As I'm sure you've figured out by now, those are just for working out the base, the actual stats for the basic attack have them together, and most attacks will reference a specific power, which will have them together.

How is that any different from saying swimming should be a strength check, or knowing about computer games should be an int check? it's something you can train in and become better at, and apparently something that comes up enough to make it equal with other skills. Why would it not be a skill?

I was also disapointed. As well as by the whole "there's a bunch of recycled art", impying the vampire is not alone in it's use of 3.x art.

No. 3.x hitdice are are process-response because if you want to make a CR blah Dinosaur/Dragon, they're tough, so you give them more hitdice, and all of the flow-on effects. In 4e you either make them brutes, which gives them more hp or you make them Elite/Solo which gives them more hp (with a...

Oooooh. Haven't seen that before, thx.

Because the important part is choosing/making up background, powers, rituals and skills. And even people who are interested in doing that will want good examples to start from, or use out of the box.

Yes, I'm amused no-one is complaining about that dead cow yet :)

I won't be buying books simply because of Ice Giants or Smoke Archons, in fact I'd be less likely to buy something like that since, again, I have no interest in completionism. I might spend money to get Metalic Dragons, but I certaintly wouldn't buy the book if there wasn't other Monsters there...

well, there's some stuff on the Wizards site here. Is that what you need?

I agree with the idea that "gimping" the first MM would/is a bad idea. What I get annoyed by are the examples that get thrown around. If you have Ice Archons, a Fire Archons, a Fire Giants and Stone Giants, I don't see how the lack of Earth Archons or Ice Giants is such a big deal, in fact I see...

Uh-huh, because immortal warriors made from earth or smoke are not only so completely different from immortal warriors made from ice or fire that you can't amke your own, but so "Archtypical" that they're complete lack from earlier editions was a complete kick in the teeth for roleplayers...

Artifacts are things that you revolve your campaign around, I'm glad they've realized that. As such, I'd say 4 will do most people for a while.