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I would think that it would not include other modifiers. It's a feature of a class; if they wanted it to modify powers they would have made it something like: 'Your encounter powers gain a miss line of 1d6+Charisma modifier damage"

I've been dropping monster defense, like PirateCat said above. However I don't do it consistently (aside from PHB1 solos), and I'm beginning to lean towards the 'it's not an issue' school of thought. Monster attacks vs non AC defense are the one thing that I'm worried about at the moment.

Yeah, and they're not bad. Buy a 18 for your primary, put a 14 in your secondary. 18/16 is fine for most builds.

From my house rules doc: Allowed Rule Books: Player's Handbooks, {power source} Power series, Eberron Player's guide, Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting (Swordmage, Genasi & their related feats only). DM Approval Required: Adventurer's Vault, Dragon Magazine, Monster Manual races. Banned...

Eh, every optimizer wants to cheese this with multi-attacks and action points. Good catch on the skill, though, Shin. That's a nice benefit.

Are we talking a real organic character with allies against real encounters and real game situations? Warlocks are fantastic and provide good damage abilities. Or are we talking statistically average defense scores singe-target at-will spamming on a character made entirely by the player with no...

I'm voting for battle mage. They're terribly flavorful, albeit poorly designed in a few ways. I really like what the class is trying to do, a shame the class features get in the way.

Yes if they're separate 'attacks', no if they're not. It's pretty clear that two different powers are separate 'attacks', but something like twin-strike less so.

Yes, you get the bonus from dagger related feats when using a dagger as an impalement. Saying something like 'weapon attacks' or 'melee attacks' would indeed be where any limitation would come from. No, sorcerers have 'dagger' as an implement, which is a specific weapon. A parrying dagger is...

Double sword plus two-weapon defense give you AC like you're using a large shield without the check penalty. Your damage isn't fantastic, but you'll be pretty mobile and able to shake off attacks. A fighter can get away with 16 strength better than most classes. Especially one who wants dual...

The fighter is good. It's easily the strongest defender, and very possibly the strongest class in the game (in general all-around effectiveness). Especially in heroic tier, where they have some amazing powers and no paragon-paths have come into play yet. If your group thinks the class is weak...

You're looking, effectively, at 3 classes. Avenger for rerolls. Ranger for twin strike. Rogue for dagger master. Without versatile master you'll need to give up one of these.

We already know the PHB 3 races from the RPG Net Spoiler.

Thri-Kreen: Coming in DS Half-giants: DS is using goliaths for them, most likely all we'll see (maybe some new racial feats, though). Githzerai - Coming in PHB 3. Githyanki - Comming as soon as wizards finally decides we're worthy of a Con/Int race. Could be a while, may be the running joke of...

Eh, nothing there really breaks a class. There's broken builds that love those powers, absolutely so. But it's a combination of feats/items/class features/paragon & epic abilities that usually breaks them. Twin strike and hand of radiance would be pretty fine without lots of static damage...

Cleanest fix would be to only allow it on targets that can make an opportunity attack.

I mean regarding wording of feats and other 'power related' abilities like the demigod ability to regain encounters. Most clarifications on wording on these sorts of things has run this way.

It's a pretty good idea to ignore any rules knowledge from previous editions as you can when you start playing 4E (I always screw up the charge rules like this).

My general rule of thumb is to read "Encounter Power" and "Daily Power" as "Encounter Attack Power" and "Daily Attack Power", because 95% of the time that looks like the intent.

Armor of faith is fine, since avengers use cloth. It's just free leather. Improved armor of faith (the feat) is quite good, too. For a while (while it was usable with leather/hide) you could argue it was broken, as it let avengers get very high AC. Then it was eratted to not work with anything...