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I might have got it. I don't have a PHB, so it would be good to have. Then again, I don't have a PHB because I don't need one with DDI, so I might not bother.

The main purpose of the item rarity system is so that you can't stock up on uncommon items of lower level, to take advantage of properties etc. In addition, for items such as weapons/armor/neck slot you can upgrade them to the higher level version. IMO your house rule makes the whole item...

IIRC: The beast form keyword means you can use a power only in beast form. If you're in beast form, you can't use any WEAPON or IMPLEMENT powers without the beast form keyword. If I'm right, that's not necessarily in need of errata. You could use it in beast form without the keyword, but with...

I always treat "damage=surge value" as "damage=quarter of hitpoints" Because the surge boosters being bad is very silly.

My immediate thought was to give an encounter, or recharge, power that allows the chariot to enter enemies spaces, and make an attack Vs. reflex. On a hit, they take damage and are knocked prone (trampled) on a miss, they are slid one square out of the path (dodged just in time). The power...

Of course it sounds better than 4e. It's pure marketing spiel, for a product that doesn't actually exist and can therefore have features that are very difficult to implement in reality, and which you can't look at to see the flaws. 4e actually exists, so you can see the flaws of implementation.

Was hoping you'd put in a bit of effort, like the 5E preview guy did.

You could always go kill a medusa, get their depetrifying blood, dunk the finger in it, and then cast raise dead :p

Testing the waters I expect. I hope they decide to take it on as a new direction. Well, not entirely, I hope they keep some simple delve-style adventures, and have some adventure locales like this, without encounters statted up.

For that, you don't need interrupt speed, only reaction speed, so I'm pretty sure it's rules legal with a free action (each square of movement is resolved seperately; so you can fit it between the squares, whereas an attack is resolved as a single entity)

If you're going for a Dungeon Keeper feel, well, Dungeon Keeper didn't have any vegetarian beasties. And I think that worked fine. My tendency would be to let the players play a whole bunch of monsters each. Ie. one player might play Bugs, controlling all the bugs in the combats, while another...

Slight flaw: If you're going to survive twice as long, but your allies AREN'T, that's not as good as dealing twice the damage. If two-weapon/two-hander is doubling the damage output, being shielded needs to be better than 50% decrease in hits taken. Especially if you don't have any way to...

If the rest of the party goes down, he's screwed. So, if he's actually a great tactician, he won't let you take them down. If he would, then he's not a great tactician, he's just selfish.

Were E-tools online only or downloadable? Because if downloadable, you're entirely missing the point. The reason to migrate to online only is that then, even when you stop making new stuff for 4e, people playing 4e will still have to pay a subscription fee to access the stuff you've already...

Don't see that happening. Why? Because they have a choice: A) continue getting money from you for the 4E tools as long as you keep playing 4E B) Stop getting money from you as long as you keep playing 4E, then have you move onto a different game, that may or may not be 5E (and if it is, they...

I wouldn't until it was significantly better than 4e. If it's a .5, that's enough to make the old system incompatible, but not enough to actually be aimed at a different playstyle. To me 4e has a perfectly good playstyle, which it supports, so I have no interest in it being .5ed. 5E would be...

That one always pisses me off. I wouldn't mind quite as much if they ever did it for other skills. Ie. if, when coming across an unstable cliff, using athletics (to try and climb) was an auto-fail, or coming across an angry beast diplomacy was an autofail, etc. But nope, just intimidate.

And if you're got a group of 20 people, all ordering a meal each, 5 of whom want carrots in their meal, 10 of whom don't care, and 5 of whom hate the idea of carrots because they don't like the taste; should the restaurant refuse to serve carrots to the 5 who want carrost? The 5 who hate...

If 25% of people want something, and 75% of people don't... the 75% can happily ignore it, while the 25% will be happier with it. Let's say only 25% of people want to be able to play druids. Does adding druids in harm the 75% who don't? Nope. But it really helps the 25% who do.

If you are unable to apply effort to this upgrading of monsters, perhaps due to a lack of time, I will give you another option. I'm not exactly flush for cash at the moment, but I have plenty of time for editing monsters etc. Make me an offer, let me know which monsters you need updating to the...