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The difference is, yes, you do comparable damage per round. But then you don't miss, and your hits are nothing to write home about. You won't get the big huge splats of damage, just steady pats that add up over time. Of course, with what you're trying to go for, by getting lots of things...

The stores being 45 minutes away /= "if only I had somewhere to purchase it...." Annoying to make a special trip to, yes, and I can understand how you might not want to drive out there just for one book. But that doesn't make it impossible to get to. Brad

You'd think rolling twice would give you twice the chance to hit, but really it's about 50% more often. And sometimes you roll two misses. I think WotC initially thought that the extra hitting would increase their damage. And it does improve damage per round, but it's not as noticeable as...

I really liked a lot of the Infinite Crisis leadup series, like the OMAC Project* and Villains Unlimited. And I really, really liked Secret Six. Dammit. * - Poor Blue Beetle. Brad

Pretty much, yeah, The Dark Knight, Watchmen, and Chris Claremont's run on X-Men are all overrated. I remember borrowing a friend's X-Men collection and, when done, asking her what was she smoking. Brad

Maybe let him take Weapon Proficiency in Monk Unarmed Strike? +3 d8 off-hand is nothing to sneeze at. Brad

Be sure to check math. I really don't see how he's doing all that much more damage than the rogue, unless the rogue's really been built awfully. I don't recall many high-[W] ranger bow powers, which might suggest he's using his Quarry dice too often, though if he's able to drop one...

Yeah, using the word "avenger" in the name really bothers me, possibly irrationally. Perhaps another name? Like, say, Hand of Judgement? Or Itinerant Crusader? Brad

In our group of about 5-6 people, about 2 people really grok rituals. I'm not one of them. I dutifully kept up with them on my cleric (and found a few nice ones, like that "make a temple for the night*" one in Divine Power), but didn't really like them. It's partly because as a cleric, I'd...

The only one I've played so far was a Sun warpriest from 21-26 or so. It was pretty decent, though it felt odd to be wearing heavy armor and not be encouraged to have high Str. I'd kill to play a Thief, though, maybe multiclass into Spiked Chain and do Sneak Attack Backstabs with Reach. Brad

Eberron. I find Dark Sun boring, and never really cared about any iteration of the Realms. Brad

The change from paragon to epic isn't really that impressive, honestly. You get one or two features from your epic destiny, but they're either extra stat bonuses or some random ability. It's certainly not as memorable as the couple of things you get for the paragon path. All the cool things...

It was almost certainly left over from Giant In the Playground Games. Brad

ZOMG you're right! (slaps forehead) ;) Brad

Not quite. Casters only rolled to hit some of the time, other times they auto-hit and then whatever they hit probably saved it off. Personally, I prefer the 4e method. It just seems more logical. Brad

Wow. This is very, very nice. Lethal Shroud looks really brutal. d8+5/10 per shroud invoked? Wow, that's a boatload of damage. Hrm, the Ki Focus looks weird, though, with the enhancement bonus 5 levels behind (+1 is a level 10 item, +2 15, etc), and it doesn't look like it's worth that big...

My (admittedly possibly flawed and definitely incomplete) understanding is that Superman's invulnerability has limits. If you can keep up enough pressure on him, or catch him when he's exhausted, he'll eventually go down. That's just going to be a lot harder for someone to do who isn't on the...

That always bugged me. I can see corruption flourishing, that's not a stretch by any means of the imagination. But what really kills me is that the obverse isn't true. Why can't I have my LG paladin of the Mockery? Brad

Hrm. I tend towards a mix of Timmy goals with Johnny sensibilities, with occasional flashes of Spike. The example is my ancient Bigger and Better Fireballs deck, which was built to generate, ahem, bigger and better direct damage spells. The initial intent was to generate as much mana as...

"...they were mind-controlled?" Brad