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Yes. ;) I couldn't help myself because I agree with the sentiment behind the joke: you take a clerk and send him off to fight monsters.

I'm not too enthused about the PH3 early access; when the first PH3 content hits DDI we will have had PH2 for all of four months. I feel like I'm hitting my saturation point in that new material - mainly in the form of new races and classes as opposed to new material to increase options for...

Nice artwork. Divine has featured in all three Player's Handbooks. I would have thought Martial, Primal, and Psionic as the sources for PH3, perhaps. Blizzard are on it: meet the Archivist (if you haven't already).

Just because you are unconscious when sleeping it does not follow that you are sleeping when unconscious. The quoted rule does not apply. (On a tangent, the Sleep power does not put targets to sleep, it renders them unconscious.) I cannot find a general rule for it; looking at a few powers...

I'm not a fan of how marks, particularly the application and tracking of them, have been used to represent the "taunting" mechanic of defenders and have been thinking about some ways to change them. The problem with changing marking mechanics is that they are entwined with much of the power...

One of my DMs makes judicious use of difficult terrain attacks and lurkers to hamper our coordination; not all the time but just often enough to keep us guessing. Area attacks that create difficult terrain for the characters but not the monsters partly eliminate the ability of the characters to...

It's all in the cover and concealment section of the combat chapter, along with a diagram illustrating some examples. Briefly, your allies don't grant your enemies cover against your ranged attacks, but your allies do grant you cover against ranged attacks from your enemies. That applies to...

I'm not so sure about that. The feedback I got in a thread on the topic of classes and roles had 54 strikers out of 121 characters (~45%), so it may be safe to say that 40-50% of 4E players are playing strikers. In that same thread I mentioned above fighters accounted for 17 out of 30...

I've had no luck finding a physical copy of the C&C Monsters & Treasure book locally; I eventually had to settle for an electronic copy from RPGNow. I'll probably pick up the new (3rd?) printing C&C PH along with M&T in my next Amazon order. On a related note, I wonder what impact - if any -...

I think the evolution of D&D into a more granular tactical experience is largely responsible for the momentum that the retro movement is picking up. (Consider the next two paragraphs covered by an "in my experience" qualifier.) 3E didn't seem so complex to begin with, and it moved along at a...

What bugs me about this is that they're muddying the accepted contextual definition of the term - generally, the minimum materials required to run a game - when it's not necessary. Wouldn't it be simpler to say that for D&D events and RPGA games anything published by WotC is allowed? Whenever I...

From an exchange I had on this topic in another thread I got the impression that WotC is also confused about it. The covers of the FR books label them as supplements and the WotC product listing on their website lists them as accessories, but someone quoted some of the text in one of the FR...

Respectively: 35 in 36, 30 in 36, 21 in 36, 10 in 36, and 3 in 36.

One way to ease them into the action and reaction style of play might be to let them come across the bandits as they're murdering Nolor. They encounter Nolor lying on the ground appearing to be seriously injured, surrounded by a number of assailants. Nolor dies three rounds after the PCs arrive...

I'm the same. My two level eighty characters in WoW were healers: a priest and a shaman. When I quit playing I was in the process of leveling a druid and a warrior and intended them to be a healer and tank respectively. This inclination worked to my advantage in the MMO environment as I rarely...

Good analysis.

I've updated the original post with new data. I moved Swordmage (Smg) from Other into their own listing as a few have popped up. That's been my experience as well: I've seen two players start with wizards and swap to sorcerers. What got me thinking about this topic to begin with was the lack...