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Pretty positive it hasn't been confirmed, and no source to back it up, but it seems to me that popular opinion has it that rituals will be available through feats. The feats could be linked to class, but I hope that the out of combat magic is completely divorced from class. If not, I guess we...

This argument here highlites the problem with people being too obsessed with a simulationist style of game. To many people, the idea that having a weapon in each hand is more "realistic" because that is the way they have always imagined it. This comes from D&D "teaching" all of us that this is...

Warlord at wills made this article worthwile by themselves.

With the new multiclass feats being restricted to only one extra class, I think that the pally may be good for playing a character with both a divine power source and an arcane power source that is also a good defender. The swordmage could also do this. Paladin(wizard), paladin(warlock) is a...

Go for it SS. I am a husband, father, medical student, and athlete. The time I spend on EnWorld is more than I have, so my only use for it is to toss is around willy nilly and annoy people. Could be a good band name, but might get you tossed out of bars, and has a tendency to get you in fights.

Dude, I am not sure what happened to make you want to rain on a perfectly good parade, but you seem so intent on it that you have lost all perspective on the original meaning of the thread. So at no point did I ever state that a perfect interpretation of any character from any source was...

Thanks, I am really pleased with the discussions that go on here, and have found a strange home here despite some resistance. The number of highly passionate nerds here is somewhat amazing, and I am a medical student, so I know nerds. Fun times.

I have. You are right that I said any. But it was in the context of "relatively" and thus means something completely different from "any with no exceptions, ever, no way". The no exceptions clause was something that was not intended. I did state the reasonable clause. It just came a little later...

That is the problem with text based communication. It is difficult to convey emotion and tone. I have approached this from a point of view that we can't assume that 4e will be like 3.x, and as the OP has stated he would like to not houserule something, then I just went with what was available...

Apparently I wasn't careful enough to avoid this sort of response with the statements of most character concepts and the request for people to cut me some slack about this. Oh well. Here goes... So in a previous post I have addressed the psionicist, necromancer, illusionist, and shapechangers...

So I am going to keep using the term metagame construct because I think that it really illustrates a point. Emphasis mine. You are still focussed on game mechanics and not concept. You have never stated what the feel is you are trying to achieve that is not fulfilled with the suggestions. This...

Different is the new same. ;)

Actually, this is exactly how I have always looked at every bit of pre-packaged game mechanics I have ever come across. I read some of the flavor text, but I don't even get to all that. The flavor text, including names of powers/classes/feats/whatever has always been very mutable for me. The...

I really was trying to help. I find it funny that you are so attached to the mechanics of sneak attack that you are willing to do it with another weapon besides the one you have been using for 25 years just to put sneak attack on your character sheet. This in light of the fact that there are...

To bring up the bard again, I was thinking about the iconic bards from literature that I know, and my favorite one is Thom Merrilin from Wheel of Time. I think that no-one who has read those stories would say that Thom is not a bard, but no one would ever stat him out as the 3.x bard class. He...

Yeah, I think that it rocks, I was mostly being over-dramatic. :D

I am curious what you feel is ad hominem. I strictly stayed away from any personal attacks, I addressed many points of contention with my stance, I even conceded some points. I did restate my position, with examples that were sound, and in the end admitted that I may have been ambitious with my...

The central problem in this thread is that there is an obsession with getting mechanics (metagame constructs) that likely won't work together to work together by RAW, without asking what the character concept is devoid of any metagame construcs and trying to find the metagame constructs in 4e...

I can't cite any specifice info, but the whole reason to create a new edition was to create a transparent system where the math all works. This is both an effort to create internal consistency at WotC, and an effort to create consistency in sources external to WotC. I think we will be clued in...

Katahn this is perfect, and to me shows more connection and commitment to the character that just being frustrated that the game mechanics are different. I love character creation, and a new edition change will allow me to flex my creative muscles again. Muffin_of_Chaos this is...