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Eladrin Soldier is a great feat, but its real value to the TacLord is granting Greatspear proficiency, which you don't care about since your DM isn't allowing the Greatspear. I'd recommend an immediate multiclass into Wizard (gives you the ability to train Religion alongside Arcana and a couple...

Weapon Talent is definitely superior to Battlerager if you're looking to play up the striker side of a Fighter. A Mordenkrad-wielding hammer build is very good at damage. However, a likely superior option is the Gouge, which has a similarly huge [W], but draws on axe and spear support instead...

Sorry, that is the control. If you add the bonuses from Expertise at the levels where they're needed to keep hit rate relatively constant (not the levels they're currently available), they have no effect on levels 1 or 3 (+1 isn't needed until level 7 or so), and the +2 at 20 cuts 3 rounds off...

Of course it isn't. In fact, it's not really accurate for a 3rd level party, and it sure isn't accurate for a 7th level party. The point isn't to model play at a given level. It's to establish a metric for determining the ratio of baseline PC damage to monster HP. The decrease in that ratio...

As noted above, looking at only the attack rate ignores half of the scaling issue. The other half is: how many hits does it take to drop a monster? At 1st level, a skirmisher has about 30 HP (exactly 30 with 14 Con). A first level non-striker with no investment is going to average somewhere...

Shhh! You'll give away the gag when I get around to updating my status! I noticed the oversight a day after I made that my tagline, but decided to roll with it and eventually update to something like "has become delirious" or "delights in his delirium" or mix my sources and go really obscure...

Certainly. I'm not trying to say that Toughness isn't a good feat, because it is. I absolutely agree that it's one of the stronger feats available at lower levels. My point is simply that it does not approach the power level of epic tier Expertise, nor does it outclass other feats the way...

Hey, if everyone is having fun, then you aren't playing the game "wrong". I suspect that your group has room to improve in terms of tactical acumen, but play experience should solve that. Toughness is definitely good for buying you space to deal with misfortune, whatever the source. Here's...

Heh, sorry. I get used to "everyone" being familiar with various terms. The percentages were just used as a metric of comparing Toughness at it's strongest (level 1) to Expertise at the levels where its power level is problematic (Expertise at level 1, while very good, is not ridiculously...

Ironically, no. The Defender gets the least percentage benefit from Toughness at level 1, since they have the highest base HP. Your typical non-Warden is gaining less than 20% from Toughness (Wardens even less). Definitely not a must-have there. Anecdotally, I've seen around 40-50 1st level...

Toughness is a nice feat, but it has nowhere near the power level of epic-tier Expertise (epic tier being where Expertise grants +3, which is the point where it becomes ridiculously overpowered). Toughness represents at most a 28% increase in HP (L1 Wizard, 8 Con, no HP boosting background)...

If you're going to argue that the Expertise feats are not over-powered, you should provide examples of other feats that you believe have a similar power level. In my opinion, the only combat-related feats that are even close are the Expertise-modeled racial attack boosting feats for dragonborn...

Careful positioning helps; if you're exactly the monster's speed away, then the push leaves them 1 square away with no movement. More relevantly, what the armor is really good for is preventing an enemy from just shifting to you. It's great when you want to be near melee combat but avoid being...

Man, I've been saying this since they created the Expertise feats. And GMforPowergamers has disagreed for just as long. I doubt we're going to change his mind this time around. But, to address his actual argument: the added factors are necessary to make up for the disparity between player...

Agreed. says Asterion. (obviously, here!)

No worries perrinmiller, VV's going to be away longer than you are. For those who missed it, he's basically without internet for the rest of the month. Link.

Asterion keeps a wary eye on the exits of the chamber as the group takes a breather. After a few minutes, he nods to Rodric and says, Time we were moving. Glancing at Anguish, he continues, There's trouble to be had in this place, and I think it better for us to find it than to be found by it...

This does seem an unsavory place, I agree, and another skilled combatant might be welcome. That welcome, however, depends on your forthrightness. You've now twice evaded the question: how is it you came to be in this place? Were you a prisoner? Hired to come here for some purpose...

In fairness, I think it's absolutely in character for Asterion to offer healing to a stranger, suspicious story or not. I wasn't planning to try to fully heal the guy without hearing more, but getting him off of death's door is IMO something of a priority for a lawful good healer type--possible...

Asterion had begun moving forward at Cliff's request, but pauses when Kaedyn speaks. Is it truly just to judge him by his appearance? rumbles the minotaur. I'm sure many of us are all too familiar with that kind of prejudice. As Rodric applies basic care, Asterion adds, As he says, we are...