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Another example I've just noticed. With PHB1, at Epic, the most competent person for restoring the dead to life is probably a cleric. Pay 50,000, spend 8 hours casting raise dead, and a dead ally returns to life, with a penalty that will go away in half a dozen encounters. Not too bad, really...

Out of 1,300, how many didn't buy the product but would have if it wasn't illegally available for free? Out of 1,300, how many bought the product but wouldn't have if it wasn't illegally available for free? Without some credible information about this, I don't think it's possible to judge...

So claws, bestial imagery and such?

In practice, versatility creep is power creep, since it allows you a broader selection in which to find synergies with stuff you already have.

I've wanted something like this since Complete Arcane. Hideous Blow was hideous, Eldritch Glaive (I think that's what it was called? the one where you got a touch-attack, AoO-capable glaive) was cool but it was only a single invocation. 4E warlocks, with their comparatively better hit points...

Isn't this an admission that figters are inferior to clerics? :) Have you compared a spellcasting cleric + fighter vs. spellcasting cleric + self-buff melee cleric?

How so? Because of the format in which they're presented? Because they're limited-use?

To quote Vance's Adam Reith: You will have to supply your own answer.

My experience has been that 4E does indeed hinder roleplaying for my group, and I am still sort of annoyed at the more rigid (compared to 3E) creation framework, but the article's point is severely undermined by its specific example. You can't play a sorcerer/monk in 4E? You can't play a...

Definitely interesting, but some of it is patently unworkable for 4E without making it a whole different game. Specifically: As the PHB is written now, this is a terrible, terrible suggestion. The current flavour text for powers is often literally laughable, and gives very little idea of what...

The basic premise of CoC d20 magic is that anyone can use it (not sure if you have to learn the spell somehow, or just go by the instructions?), but casting deals stat damage. How usable is this for PCs? How portable would it be into d20 Modern? I like the idea of magic being something...

We started 4E immediately after finishing AoW. While I wouldn't say we started 4E because of AoW, the annoyances it brought (culminating in the fight against Kyuss lasting less than two rounds, with him not managing to make a single attack) certainly made use more receptive to 4E. High-level...

If either of these are true, it's still a crappily designed feat, since it reduces (reasonable) choice and distinction between characters.

That depends on the amount of the resistance. Now take into account that creatures without resistance to radiant or fire are more common than creatures with such resistance; that Astral Fire requires Dex 13, Cha 13 while Implement Expertise (reputedly) requires nothing; that Implement Expertise...

I'm not seeing how you get very much from Melee Training, unless you find yourself making an inordinate amount of opportunity attacks or or charges.

How about a bard/samurai/paladin/iaijutsu master? Or a succubus bard/blackguard?

What do you mean?

Crappy damage is certainly possible, but dailies never miss altogether. His basic attack didn't have any special effect? He didn't have any situational powers that hinged on the special effect created by his basic attack (so that he has to hit with basic to use the more powerful ability)? He...

That's not quite true. You cannot disarm at all, and bull rush and grab are significantly more difficult and less powerful than a typical attack. Compare bull rush to Tide of Iron. Bull rush is Str vs. Fort (just Str, no proficiency bonus, no enhancement bonus) for push 1. Tide of Iron is Str...

Is this symmetric for non-casters? For example, is it metagame cheeze to play a melee warrior with anti-melee feats, such as Combat Expertise? :p Indeed. And that's where the problem is, rather than in the concept of a spellcaster who specializes in fighting spellcasters.