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I play a seeker in one game. He could use a few power options for sure. But I can still pick between 344 feats for him at 1st level, without taking a muticlass feat. And half of them are absolute garbage feats from dragon. And then there's redundant feats like Epic Will. Yeah, that considers...

Any article that adds options for the game that doesn't add to feat/power bloat is good in my eyes. I've already got 300+ options for my 1st level feat, I don't need more.

Man, once can just mix the hexblade in, the PHB warlock will finally be what I want: an arcane striker mixing dangerous weapon attacks and devastating spells. You know, what we thought the swordmage was going to do before finding out what it actually does. EDIT: Wait! 2 'W' classes on that...

It's the classic argument of "X percent of monsters in the official books have resistance to Y" argument. I don't agree with it at all (or the related 'Fort is the worst defense to target'), but as a DM I go to effort to keep that sort of thing from being an issue in my campaign. So, yeah. Bit...

Disagree on this specific point. The stupidity of this move is just mind boggling. "We're loosing money because people are pirating stuff, let's make it impossible for them to pay us for it, instead!" That is not the logic of any rational mind. Never mind the very idea that piracy = lost sales...

I'd wager quite a bit of the need for the online versions of CB and the like is entirely because of some decree from on high (either legal or corporate leadership) in regards to piracy. Remember, WotC pulled down ALL official PDF support because of piracy. It's the stupidest move they've made...

Necrotic resistance and radiant vulnerability are way too pervasive in the core rules as written. That said just because something more common, statistically, doesn't mean it should be in an actual campaign. If you have a serious problem with this in game it would be better to just mention it to...

In my opinion the striker is the easiest role to go without. There are so many options for other classes to dabble into it that it's really easy to simply have everyone bring a bit of a striker to the table. Greatweapon Fighter, Blaster Wizard, Panther Shaman, for example, will dish out plenty...

As far as party composition, you'll most likely get the best results from: At least one leader. At least one defender, potentially two if you take a swordmage or paladin (who both have limited ability to mark more than one opponent). That's pretty much it. Strikers/Controllers are good, but...

Nice, they dropped the 'you can not use this power again on your next turn if you fail to engage the target' bit from Divine Challenge. No more stun/immobilize screwing them over for two rounds.

The two sets of classes are pretty well balanced against each other. The bigger change in power over time has really been eratta to core material. That, too, shouldn't be an issue as the modules weren't designed with Half-Elf twin-striking daggermaster avengers in mind, anyway (i.e. the eratta...

Human Centered Breath Monk and Human Hunter Seeker. One of these two is awesome, and the other can never find a way to make his powers useful. It's left as an exorcise to the reader to determine which is which.

Actually, this is a pretty decent article... for DMs. I'd been hoping for more rare item examples to help me gauge my own designs, and these are good from that perspective.

Originally powers, but eratted to only be warlock powers: In the first sentence of the Benefit line, add “warlock” before “encounter power”. EDIT: ed.

Meh, what were you expecting. Class acts only hits the mark like 10-15% of the time. Every now and then we get an interesting and balanced build (usually with only dedicated power per level though, if that). But it almost never actually fixes things that are over/under powered (and the rune...

So, the main selling point is 'The more you suck the better it looks in contrast?' ... yeah.

As far as I can tell (don't have essentials in dead tree form yet, but from errata and the Compendium) superior crossbow is dead in the water as far as rogues since essentials. Standard crossbow, too. And of course rogues don't really get much mileage out of the shortbow since most rogue powers...

The classic magic missile gave you multiple missiles that you could split up however you liked between targets. It also was auto hit. I like the first aspect and think it could be interesting in 4E, but not the second, which is just boring. So that's why my idea MM can be multi-target. The +2 is...

Silverlight is basically MS's flash alternative, albeit a little more dev oriented and a little less designer oriented. Since the old CB was already in .NET silverlight should have them them reuse most of that old code base by just building a new UI on top of the existing code. Who knows what...

I think the smaller things will be where this can do good. The trap of seeing lots of wizards and few seekers, so let's make more wizard stuff should be pretty clear. But things like power X or feat Y are really popular and have interesting mechanics. We can use something like that as a...