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FWIW, Aulirophile, you have my thoughts. This is a horrible way to treat a forum poster, and I hope you get it sorted as quickly and painlessly as possible.

The golem's a little 'supers' for my taste, but the shackled wraith and the ghost council look amazing. Can't wait to see how they come into play.

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The cheese in frostcheese comes not from the fact that the combo is effective (although it would certainly attract less attention if it weren't), but from the fact that it pursues a mechanical benefit through methods that make little sense in game. Frost-based mage is a strong archetype...

The Essentials feats that are replays of earlier feats (eg. Heavy Blade Expertise v Weapon Expertise (Heavy Blade) and Superior Will v Iron Will) are significantly better than their predecessors. I'm not in favour of a general ban though. You need to consider each feat individually, and I'd...

Are you sure you're not really in Scotland, because you sound awfully like one of my players ;)

I'm AFB, so I apologise if this is a dumb question: If a Thief uses Tactical Trick to get away from an enemy without provoking an OA but then has no valid target against which he has combat advantage, can he ready his attack for when an ally moves adjacent to the target? Or does the act of...

Well there you go! I must have been thinking of the general 'distance to target' rules.

Given the current meta-game strength of chargers, is there such a thing as a needless nerf to them? :p And it's worth noting that, IIRC, 4e doesn't count distance through blocking terrain such as walls. So even if going around the corner takes you away from a straight line to the target, each...

How about Chaperone? They are, after all, partly there to make sure the avenger doesn't go off the rails.

There's a lot of good advice in this thread. Some of it so good that my first response is "Why on earth would I do that to myself as DM!". Unless I'm mistaken, Poised assault affects all MBAs, not just opportunity attacks. And there's the further issue of Battle Guardian not actually being an...

WSG is definitely on the radar for later levels, but I want the player to settle into the character first. Oh, and not die :) It's her first time playing a defender. I'm AFB. I'm also the DM. Is there some reason why I wouldn't let it stack? Why so? At least why so more than a fighter...

This is what I've got so far. The only knight handbook I've come across on the WotC board emphasises Con and Dex for hp/surges and initiative respectively. While I can see the former, Con doesn't really seem to apply to that many knight features and those it does apply to a point here or...

With a nod to Noodle's sanity, I have to agree with Gideonpepys. It looks awesome.

I think part of the problem is that, as others have pointed out, most of the creatures we have at epic - and indeed most of what we think of as being epic - are 'capstone' creatures. You can't have ten fights against dragons (or primordials) per level from 21 to 30, because D&D lore has already...

As an honest question, what's left for Epic after you take out demons or undead? I can only think of other immortals (angels and devils), fey and aberrations. Otherwise you need to get 'crazy' and mess around with parallel universes and such, don't you?

Ah, thanks for the clarification.

The text you quoted doesn't support retraining at all. It supports going without a theme for one or more levels and then choosing one at a level higher than 1. Not the same thing. Interesting if WotC have reversed that particular rule from Dark Sun. I personally would approve, but I can...

Didn't need to tell me. My first thought was "I don't think that would be appropriate". Noodle, I will be posting a campaign review/discussion thread somewhere on ENworld (not sure yet whether here or in Story Hour) once things are officially up and running, so hang tight. Of course, my group...

Done. Other than the specific request for feedback on whether the encounters seem exciting, is there anything in particular you do or don't want us to look for? Spelling/grammar? Typos? And what's the deadline for the feedback?