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I think you're misunderstanding what's happening with the History check here. Remember that "important to the Duke's life" is a subjective judgement, and the one doing the judging is the Duke himself. The way the the Diplomacy check "unlocks" History is that it makes the Duke talk enough that...

For the most part, 4E won't allow you to trade combat coolness for non-combat coolness. There are certainly ways to be cool outside of combat, but they're equally available to all characters. You can choose not to do anything in combat and concentrate on doing stuff outside combat if you like...

Why? It hardly seems like something likely to come up enough to be worth worrying about.

I don't think he even needs Wizard MC. Multi-classing is for battle magic, and most of Elric's magic is rituals. (Summoning and the like.) Give him the Ritual Casting feat, and he's golden.

What always turned me off double weapons was the requirement that you had to enchant each end separately. I understand the balance reasons behind it perfectly, but it was maybe the most obviously artificial restriction for mechanical game balance in the entire game. If a wizard is enchanting a...

I don't really expect that most multi-classers will spend 3 feats to gain 3 powers. I expect most of them will spend 1 feat to gain 1 power. They'll look at their concept and make a decision as to in what manner their PC is going to draw on the secondary class. Is it going to be a utility...

Is anyone else a little annoyed at those ability score requirements? Strength is a req in fully 4 out of the 8 Initiate feats (and in 2 of them is the sole option). Intelligence and Wisdom come in at 1 each. I was starting to think about how to convert one of my characters, a gnome wizard, to...

If a particular mind-influencing effect needs to be not obvious, then it should say so in the text for that particular power. Exception-based design.

So what about rituals? It's been suggested that any character can take the appropriate training feat(s) and be able to use rituals, no matter what their class is. Is that appropriate for Dark Sun? And how should rituals relate to the defiler/preserver split?

I expect that anything that will interrupt a spell can also interrupt a martial ability such as, "hit baddie with my sword really hard". Consequently "interrupts" will be an exception-based power, rather than something everybody can do. I don't expect even a successful attack of opportunity...

I think the basic problem is this. Even at epic levels, not every monster can be the big, bad terror of the cosmos. As horrible as it sounds, you've got to have your epic goblins that the PCs can fight through on their way to the actual threat to all reality. All the old 3E epic level...

I don't really understand what "handle evil twins in the RAW" actually means. It's obvious how to handle twins. You ask all your players to give you copies of thier character sheets and you put in the skull sweat to figure out how to run their characters. If you want to make them slightly...

You know, there's an easy way for players to get away with doing anything they feel like if all consequences are handled in-game. They can just have their characters committ suicide after every adventure. Doesn't make much difference then if their paladin falls or the DM has a crazed band of...

Yes, but the gods are allowed to get fancy and use things like an eight-legged horse that leaves hoofprints of fire, a chariot drawn by goats, a giant seashell, a boat pulled by swans, and other such "interesting" means of transport. Be wary if one pulls up beside your ship and challenges you...

This doesn't worry me too much, because "the math" of attack and damage is something the design team actually worked at this iteration. They sat down and figured how much damage a creature of a given role at a given level needs to do on a consistent basis. It's the sort of thing it's easy to...

I don't believe that Charm will have effects other than those indicated in the power. A PC under the succubus Charm will still be able to move away from her and attack the succubus's allies. I'm pretty confident about this, based on 4E design philosophy. Remember how adamant the designers are...

You're right... you're being nitpicky. Who cares about "descriptors"? The point is that the connection the kalashtar have with outsiders pushes them towards being good. If being connected to 'evil' outsiders turned good pushed them to be evil then you might have a point, but that's not how it...

I've been thinking about something we heard about fairly early in the 4E design process, the effort to make aasimar as interesting as their tiefling counterparts. It occured to me that the Kalshtar from the Eberron campaign setting are a pretty good example of how to go about it. After all...

If you've never had an argument over it, that suggests it wasn't important enough to argue about, which suggests it didn't make much difference to your game. So if they fix it by making alignment have no mechanical effect, is that a problem?

"The PC's" didn't decide anything or do anything. Not being real, they're sort of handicapped in that respect. What happened was that the players got a little disconnected from the in-game reality and forgot to roleplay their characters in their excitement about winning. Such a thing is easy...