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Builds previously had no mechanical effect, they were just a list of recommended choices. Builds in essentials do have mechanical effects as they significantly alter your available class features. I don't think there's any real overlap here we will need to worry about in the long run.

Sounds like you only need to buy the Rules Compendium...

Probably using Holy Cleansing power he gets at 4th level.

If you're a brand new player and you're told that this book is the "on-ramp" to the game, why would you want to play the missing "core fighter" given that you would have no way of knowing it even exists until you later encountered another player with a PHB. The book covers levels 1 through 30...

Already covered. Ignore.

Heroes of the Fallen Lands Preview | Dungeons and Dragons and Retail There's a picture of the page there. Also confirmed is the Essentials Assassin-executioner (striker) and Revenant as a DDI bonus. I'm very very very happy with the idea that classes are no longer strictly married to roles.

I would still get the PHB3 in addition to the essentials books for the Psionic classes. In my opinion, you won't miss not having the Half-Giant (Goliath) from PHB2 very much, and if you feel the Big-Guy role is missing, you can just make the Minotaur more of a central player.

If your group is willing, I would retcon the first death since it was the result of a rules misinterpretation. I think the second death should stand. As for whether or not you were picking on the player, I've personally endured worse. My favourite character ever also happened to be one which...

I think a reduction in content corresponding to the release of Essentials is more likely a sign that a set number of months ago, WotC started taking fewer submissions for non-essentials related articles because they are hoping to feature the new line in Dragon for a while. Whether or not that...

Personally, I would remove the Defender role requirement and instead focus the PP on bringing a secondary role to vanilla warlocks, while also being a natural choice for hybrids. Eldritch Knight's Curse (Level 11): Creatures cursed by you are also marked by you. That's simple, but possibly...

Two new settings a year is pushing it. What I think needs to go is the (apparently abandoned) insistence on not revisiting settings. I think it would work if twice a year we got a new book for either a new setting, or an existing one.

Group PvP is fun and usually well balanced. One on one fights are another story. Leaders usually can only buff their allies, but not themselves. Defenders and controllers wind up being way stronger in the one on one fights.

In the end, though, the gnome barbarian is still NOT as effective as the dragonborn barbarian. The gnome will still have to spend 7 more points than the dragonborn to get his 18 in strength, meaning the dragonborn barbarian will be a more wellrounded barbarian (it came naturally to him and he...

If it were me, I would throw out the Pokedex and work with custom monsters (this largely happens in each iteration of the game anyway). Race could correspond to the physical type of the creature: rat, humanoid, monkey, snake, dragon. Class could correspond to the attitudes of the creature: The...

It's not that I think 20s are bad. What I don't like is the fact that nobody in their right mind will ever play a Tiefling Rogue, or an Elf Fighter. The easiest way to fix this is to make it so players are not desperately trying to line up their racial bonuses with their primary stat.

Perception for monsters is listed with Senses at the top of the stat block.

To improve the usefullness of more race/class combinations, I'm considering setting a maximum starting ability score of 19, or possibly 18. I think a large reason people avoid things like Tiefling fighters, or eladrin paladins is because they feel obligated to have a 20 in their primary stat...

We're sort of getting 3 settings in 2011. We get the Neverwinter book. We get the Ravenloft box. We get the Nentir Veil gazeteer along with whatever info about the world get's put into that conquest-type board game. They mentioned that it will be the first time we'll see the full "world map"...

Agreed. The text does not specify that you must roll a natural 20.

Reiterating: The level 1 theme encounter powers generally deal damage on par with an at-will power but have non-damage effects on par with encounter powers. The wildcard is that the damage scales up faster than a normal at will power, jumping 2[W] for paragon tier and 3[W] for epic tier, as...