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The first of the Themes articles is up, containing the Alchemist, Animal Master, Order Adept, and Wizard's Apprentice. The features are pretty neat. The Alchemist gains the Alchemy feat for free, and can create one alchemical item of their level or below at no cost during an extended rest. The...

Neat! Although the TOEE's location is going to cause a bit of a retcon in my campaign, but I'm alright with that. They're currently in Hommlet on their way to the TOEE, and the recently joined drow PC is from the Vault of the Drow. I guess they're just further from Nerath than they believed...

Yes, the Dragondown coast is that curved bay that the Sarthel region encompases. The river that is the border of the Sarthel map region is the The Blackfall, which means the closest city in the Dragondown coast to Sarthel is Avankil (check out the map in The Seal of Karga Kul). Also, from the...

And the amount of Themes! We're getting 15 this month, while the Dark Sun campaign book only had 10. Altogether we will now have 25 choices for themes. I hope this series continues into next month, because theres a few choice themes that could have been written up. Like a crafting theme like...

Yeah, the compendium shows it as being updated in the Class Compendium, so I went to the Weaponmaster article. The new version is in the pages from the Class Compendium, but not in the updates file. So in a way this is stealth errata. It seems to me that wizards has decided they don't need to...

Also, there is the Anarusi Codex (10), a rare tome implement. Its the only Rare item in Heroic Tier that I know of.

He has AC 24 because magical plate armor automatically includes the bonus for masterwork armor once it reaches +2 enhancement bonus in the online character builder. So that's an additional +1 to AC. I think this +2 plate is part of the problem with challenging the party. Going by the treasure...

I think we will see more of these areas. News about the development was that they had written detail about each region for the boardgame, so we're likely to see more in this article series in coming months. I just wish they were coming out faster. And the scale on that map is big enough that...

The thing is, they were called Subclasses from the beginning, but only in the non-formal communications from WotC like the podcasts, not in the actual products. And I agree with previous posters, mostly. Its okay to call them weaponmasters, as long as its listed as Fighter first. But I don't...

So there's finally a new option for Runepriest available, albeit a campaign situational one. But I can see it being useful for a party where the Runepriest is a second leader, with the other being very healer focused. However, its in an UA article, which means its never getting added into the...

Well, hopefully I would have looked at the feat section before buying, so that I could then shop around for a deal on it. I would have wanted it for the Encounters+ format, because sometimes I need to be able to help people make characters the traditional PnP way, but I don't think it would have...

For those of you who don't have Heroes of Shadow yet and have a DDI subscription, the information from the book is now in the online Character Builder. Also, it looks to me like the updates from the Class Compendium articles that have been released so far were included as well, as the PHB...

When did the column ads switch to the left side of the forums? Is this a setting that can be user-controlled, or is it just the way the webpages are formatted? I ask this because I read ENworld from a laptop, and I now need to keep my web browser window maximized just so I can read threads...

Ugh. While I'm happy to finally see the board, it conflicts enough with my preconceptions that I don't know if I'm going to be using that in my games. Unless of course the Nentir vale is just in the corner, which means I can change the geography to the west of it however I like. Now I really...

The new paperbacks don't invalidate any old classes, they're just introductory books with new classes. So you're invoker is still around, and in the new online character builder. But if you're playing in a game I'd recommend the Rules Compendium. It has all the rules needed to play (except...

Yeah, I've seen that world map when I started trying to figure out my own geography, but it just didn't fit my preconceptions of the size or shapes of the continent. And I agree, the scale was far from useful.

It wasn't so much a nerfing of the martial classes, it was offering new builds designed in a different manner. The two new subclasses of Fighter, the Knight and the Slayer, offer people the choice of playing a less complex version that can do the same thing all day long. But its not really a...

We're going to be getting something of a world map in the Conquest of Nerath boardgame, but that's not out for several months. But before that, articles detailing regions in that boardgame are getting released, the first of which Sarthel, City of Silver, should hopefully be releasing this week...

Okay, I was wrong about the hit points. Its been so long since I've made a controller character that I forgot that all controllers except Druids get 10+con score at first level. So either this is just another place where its clear this was once a Leader that got reclassified as a Controller, or...

Wizards did not make Fortune Cards mandatory for Encounters, but they are highly encouraged. Store owners aren't supposed to require a buy-in for play at Encounters, but I wouldn't be surprised if some unscrupulous folk out there are using Fortune Cards as a requirement for play. In order to get...