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Just wanted to throw this into the mix... What if the readied charge ends with an Eldritch Strike (MBA that slides the enemy)?

It's a pretty trivial distinction, but I'd prefer it if it were something like 6 the first, 5 the second, 4 the third, etc.

I've always wanted to try a group composed primarily of mark and run assault swordmages.

As a long time elf-hater, I have to confess that I actually like what 4e has done with elves, especially with the fey eladrin. I hope to see all the emo races go first... you know who you are.

keterys has the right idea. I remember when 4e first came out hearing that it's a lot like WoW. I didn't think so until I actually started playing WoW. I really think 4e *could* be made into a real time game (as long as you only control one character.) At-wills are your normal skills...

That's you prerogative, but personally I prefer to think of "minion" as representing morale in addition to physical frailty. Maybe they don't always *die* in one hit. Sometimes, they become otherwise incapacitated, or run away.

Derailing a bit, but... IMO the best thing about HERO is the freedom to define flavor however you want. The worst thing was the lack of balance.

Kzach, I know you "don't care", but you really ought to try and include every race in the CB that has a bonus to either the primary or secondary stat at a bare minimum.

White Lotus is from an issue of dragon. If you've got the character builder you can check it out there. You should be aware that feylocks are less resilient than infernalocks, so you have to be really careful about staying in melee. If your DM is willing, you can have a lot of fun with the...

More thoughts on directions to go with this. If you go human and use eldritch strike, you can(should) take white lotus hindrance to keep your enemies from moving away without provoking opportunity attacks. You can then strike them again to slide them away from their intended destination, making...

Eladrin with greatspear. I might consider mc fighter instead of mc swordmage for feycharge. (Or if windrise, both)

I'd start with Nifft's hexhammer gish for ideas. Wiz forums are down, but you can view the cached page. I think the original build is a dwarf (for pact hammer). Since then, warforged have become an attractive option (+str/con, and embedded implement). Humans could also pull your idea off using...

I've toyed with the idea of making the wizard class feature cause the target to roll twice and take the lower value. This combined with "penalties don't stack" would give wizards an edge, and rein in abuse.

I'd let the player do it, and then on next ongoing damage attack describe it as cuts from the bites. I'd be tempted to just let them do it though, and have the swarm focus on the other players.

I'd just let the player do it. It's a *very* specific situation. He can only fey step once per encounter, you probably will not use rat swarms again for a while, and the conditions do not apply to any other monsters. It's a bit of creative thinking, and should be rewarded (in my opinion without...

I haven't played at high levels, but I get the impression the game doesn't even start to break down until high epic.

Just ask yourself if a dragonborn can breath down a 1 square wide hallway... and what the effect would be if it does.

Thanks. I see the idea that you can't thrown about on the charop forums quite a bit and it seemed wrong. I generally trust enworld's judgment on the rules more.

Does a non-magical shield take up the arms magic item slot?

The word you are looking for is "precedent". I think this would be fine for a temporary artifact sort of thing.