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Outside of 4e, 'melee attack' is used interchangeably with 'smack him with my weapon' and vice versa. But with 4e's attack types, you can smack someone with your weapon using a power that is not a melee attack. "This power says I'm smacking him with my sword." "Right. But it's not a melee...

It probably works OK for most monsters, but think about multi-attacking elites. You can only punish one attack, which'll be barely enough damage for an elite to notice. If you've paid your feat tax (Melee Training: Con), you have a standard-strength OA for monsters who feel like wandering off...

Is this the aftermath of the fight with the stirges? The real question is why he didn't explain how to escape the stirges' grab. Or why he moved the stirges into their spaces. Or why he ran the stirges' attack as ongoing damage as well as an auto hit on the stirges' turns. Or why he didn't...

Well, the battlemind actually has the most reasons to upgrade: Lightning Rush (7), Brutal Barrage (13), Might of the Ogre (23), and Mind of Mirrors at 27 all beat the pants off level 1 at-wills, mostly because they address your (almost) complete lack of stickiness. I'm very curious about the...

They may have decided it was too powerful to hand out to other classes regularly. It's not so overpowered that it needs errata, but it's awesome enough that they don't want to use it willy-nilly. Personally, I think the monk changes happened because having [w] powers presented a false...

If you want to use a halberd or glaive, GGWP is awesome. Goliath fighter using a halberd with weaponmaster's strike says mmm-mm, tasty OAs on shifting.

How recently was this? Since the Dungeon Finder came out, it got a lot easier to find groups and made it a lot easier to get gear out of heroics. Plus, Storm Peaks and Icecrown quest blues are great starter heroics gear. You mean dual spec? I didn't have a problem getting the gold for it...

On two different occasions, a person jumped into my game and failed to ever show up again, so I'm personally partial to the 1-session trial period before I have to work them in.

Well, if the warlord pairs off with the fighter for handing out basic attacks and the shaman similarly pairs off with the warlock, then there could be room for the bard to do light control work or spot healing. Bards are very versatile an d have powers with all kinds of effects, so if you build...

Well, it's versus reflex, but yeah. To the OP: The rub is that most PCs don't go around fighting in melee with free hand. Most of them use it for a two-handed weapon or a shield.

I would have the DC vary from one pressure plate to another. Maybe the PCs find a broken one with their passive perception or they see some other clue that will tip them off and get them to make active rolls. Have most require a roll of 12-14 from their best perception, but some require a 15+...

When I made a 14th level fighter/barbarian near the end of 3.5, I had an entire sheet of legal-size paper devoted to his magic items. I did get a certain enjoyment out of administrating the list, but it also took a lot of effort to do so, so I'm glad I won't have do that again.

When you get to take an OA, you get to make a melee basic attack. (See PH page 290) Magic missile is a ranged basic attack.

The ritual for the staff of winter lets you change the weather within a 2-mile radius into a blizzard for an amount of time indicated by your arcana check. The ritual for mantle of the seventh wind lets you grant your allies overland flight for a time. None of the rituals have a component cost.

First, a clarification. The errata on footwork lure limits it to one square unless you have some bonus (polearm master, rushing cleats, staggering weapon, etc.). But fighter is still a great option. I'd recommend starting stats of Str 17, Con 16, Dex 13, Int 8, Wis 14, Cha 10 after racial...

I like the one that extends a rope of climbing to a thousand feet. Hours of switchbacks on mountain paths? Poof! Thousand-foot rope! Need to infiltrate a cliffside castle? Poof! Thousand-foot rope!

There are a number of push effects that specify a size restriction, like Tide of Iron. After about 11th level, they probably gave up because by then you're awesome enough it just works.

Specific beats general, but only on the rules it's actually changing. If it just says "make a stealth check", it is not modifying the outcome of that stealth check in any way. You would refer to the normal stealth rules to determine whether what this check actually does.

The monk's attacks are all versus fort, reflex, or will.

Page 25 of the PHB is where you can find the restriction on 1st level languages. I think the idea is that the languages of angels, gods, and demons aren't widely spoken, so you have to spend some effort to find someone who knows them (i.e. spend a feat).