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I know the thread is a week stale, but no one called you on this point and it's been bugging me. First, you created not just an unoptimized knight, but an ANTI-optimized knight that specifically did not have the right tools for the encounter. A build that you know can be impaired by pushes...

After pondering how this would work, I decided these are not particularly helpful for regular gameplay, but I may as well post my ideas: Heavy Crossbow: Simple Ranged (20/40), +2 proficiency, 1d10 damage, Load Move Arbalest: Military Ranged (25/50), +2 proficiency(*), 1d12 damage, Load...

Hmm... what about the Bardiche? The Bec de Corbin? And the Guisarme Voulge? By Bigby, how can anyone play D&D without a guisarme voulge? ;-) Slightly more seriously, I think there should be crossbows of increasing damage die size requiring Load Move, Load Standard, and Load Full Turn (specific...

edit: never mind, already explained. Enworld's hybrid mode display is worse than useless. It actively conceals parts of the discussion and causes self-ninja-ing.

Subject line says it all. What paragon paths (other than the default ones in HotFL/K) work well with Essentials classes that rely on basic attacks? Kensei is obviously a decent choice for most of them, and Thief/Kulkor (MP2) is all the rage in WotC CharOp. Other suggestions? p.s. if...

Thanks for the variety of interesting answers. Several of them are similar to ones for a previous question I posted about the rationale of martial dailies. They invoke the real meta-issue: "If a conflict arises between my game world vision and the rules, which one should change?" In previous...

In my game world I'm planning to make oozes immune to combat advantage (and probably prone) but give them a couple damage vulnerabilities (different for each type of ooze). Obviously this handicaps rogues (and enhances poly-elemental blasters with high skill checks). Is that a bad thing? IMO...

Google reveals a few lists of correspondences between 3E spells and Harry Potter, but not one for 4E yet. Here's what I came up with so far; please join in. CANTRIPS: Ghost Sound (in part): Sonorus: amplifies the caster's voice; countered by Quietus. Light: Lumos: produces a beam of light...

Yes, according to http://www.enworld.org/forum/4e-discussion/273666-phb3-random-stuff-doesnt-merit-full-post.html#post5126175 Rune of Mending gives 1d6 less HP than Healing Word, Inspiring Word, etc, and adds rune state bonus instead.

Does the battle guardian attack kill minions? AFAICT, no one has explicitly answered this question yet. We assume the Str damage is a miss effect RAI, therefore minions survive. But is that the case? The damage occurs via an Effect line. Battle Guardian itself does not hit or miss the target...

A belated "domo arigato" to mkill for this useful thread. BTW, is there an equivalent thread for the races who got stat adjustments in HotFK? FWIW, the only mathematical situations where two +1s come out ahead of one +2 are when you bump a pair of matched stats across a point-buy threshold (13...

True. I agree that one can build a wizard who loads up on save penalties to make Sleep (et al) work. But any other build (such as your reroll elf) is better off with damage + EONTs.

Is +3 surge value really a level 22 effect? Could someone explain the game balance why it isn't a standard every-5-levels item that goes from +1 to +6?

Those attack benefits don't apply to the save rolls. I'd rather use them to do damage. If you're facing 12+ creatures most of them will be minions. Flaming Sphere. I can see Sleep being usable for an orb wizard with save penalty boosters, but for anyone else it's weak sauce. The 4E save ends...

This is an interesting point, so I wanted to look it up. Not exactly, but fairly close, is Dude, Where's My Rule Zero?

I expect (as in "come on and get this done, WotC") that some or all of the other 5 Wizard specialist schools will be officially created in 2011. But even just for the three options in Fallen Lands, has any well-regarded person or group undertaken the task of assigning schools to the...

Got it. I had been using "ranged" and "area" as English-language concepts rather than keywords. Close attacks have areas of effect, but they are not Area attacks. As long as I still have my set of 1E books (including an unexpurgated DDG), TSR lives on. Speaking of Deities, I'll have you know...

To me (and other people in the thread) it's intuitively obvious why physical abilities don't fit the "daily" keyword: because that's not how animal bodies work. I expect a semblance of realism from the parts of an RPG that correspond to reality. But you're right that debating this point isn't...

Thanks much to all for the interesting conversation. Chakra would be Ki source, not martial. I can find plausible justification for dailies from any supernatural power source. Martial is the other case. That's a separate topic, but a good reminder. Back in the day my preferred solution was...

Aha. I must have missed the paragraph that says "close" does not count as an area. Bursts and blasts sure look like areas from an ordinary-language point of view. Thanks for the info. Nevertheless, I still don't like that templating. Hmm... if I were evil TSR overlord, I would have used...