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I'd love to know where "they" said this and who keeps repeating it because every single example of a feat is actually powered up-- Dwarven weapon training appears to be +1 to hit and +2 damage with hammers and axes. Beats the pants of weapon focus. Alertness (only one of two I've seen...

I would guess that there may not be antimagic or silence effects in the game until the third or fourth splatbook and thus when they crop up, such problems will be blamed upon the splatbook (and perhaps justly so) rather than game design. That said, if they do do any kind of magic resistance...

Fighter types do more damage per swing? I guess we'll have to wait and see the game, but from what I'm seeing in the previews, that seems highly unlikely. In 3.5, doing 25-30 damage a hit at level 10-12 without power attack seems to have been pretty typical for well constructed fighter types...

Yeah--it's like DR except you can't get past it without a special power which your class may or may not get. (Looking at the preview characters, IIRC the warlock, wizard, and cleric all had non-AC targeting powers, the rogue preview indicates that the rogue has a ref targeting power. On the...

I wasn't at D&D XP, but I can read a character sheet, so I have a pretty good guess: In 3.x, you get an AoO if your opponent moves more than 5 feet without tumbling or withdrawing. In 4th edition, you get an OA if your opponent uses a move action to move away from you. You do not get an OA if...

Sure--but miniatures stand or fall on their own regardless of how customized the monsters are. In 3.0 or 3.5, I the rules support giving my orc warrior a greataxe, a falchion, or a heavy mace but without changing much of anything but if I want my miniatures to be WYSIWYG, I still need a...

I think you all are missing the really important part of exception based monster designer here. You have kobold slingers and kobold archers and you can't switch their weapons. So, if you want kobold crossbowmen, they get to sell you another monster manual.

It seems to me that Cleave should probably destroy minions but based on differing reports, the rules are probably unclear about whether or not it does. (For that matter, the same rulings might indicate that a power that does half damage on a miss might not kill them). However, I detest the idea...

Strangely, I seem to be some kind of combat prodigy then because I could wrestle with my dad by the time I was five. I couldn't win unless he let me of course, but I could do a heck of a lot more than grab his shirt. As it happens, that's true of nearly everyone. In a few years when they're...

Please please please say that the spiked chain is now a weapon that only a few monsters (maybe only Shadar Kai) can use and that it's not in the PH. That won't make up for all the shortcomings of the ruleset but it will go a long way towards making me happier with the new set of shortcomings.

Rodrigo. Thankyou for what I considered a balanced and informative review.

I think you're a bit off here--maybe not as much with the paladin (though the indication that the paladin can't mark an opponent and then hide from it to get the divine damage indicates that there will probably be movement related tricks there) or the cleric as presented (though the minis game...

It's also a first level monster. My 3rd edition kobold skirmisher (kobold war 3 IIRC) stat card is pretty short too. Compare that statblock to the list of powers and subreferenced summoned monsters and their lists of powers that you'll be facing in 4th edition (the pit fiend's statblock is...

You mean like take Point Blank Shot, Precise Shot, and Rapid shot--you know the chain of "I'm good at ranged attacking" feats? In 3.5, any archer constructed with only the obvious feat choices and only the obvious stat arrangements (good strength, good dex) will dish out amazing amounts of...

Uh huh. Everyone would do well to consider the differences in the state of 2e when 3e came out and 3.5e now that 4e is coming out. 2e needed a rulebook of houserules to be playable. 3.5 is still quite playable without more than a page or two of house rules. The 4th edition transition is driven...

That depends how you interpret more often. It will generally increase the ranger's chance to hit by 20%. However, depending upon the target's armor class, it may be more of a difference in the likelihood of the ranger hitting. For instance, against an AC of 20, +10 hits 55% of the time and +6...

It is not remotely the same. To be blunt, the previous archetype of the fighter was hitting monsters. The primary role of the current fighter is to get hit by them. Old skool: The fighters attack and kill the monsters (unless there's a whole bunch of monsters in which case the wizard fireballs...

I didn't like that much either at the time, but considering it from another angle, if they could file off the post-modern guilt and obligatory social commentary along with Cortez's name, the conquest of the new world would be one heck of a D&D campaign. Land with a small group of adventurers in...

Consider also that the preview format is reportedly a delve format where the DM is keeping a very tight pace. My experience is that most of what takes time in the current system is discussion digressions, and people deciding to take their actions by committee. The delve format doesn't have time...

Maybe and maybe not. When looking at the character sheets from DDXP and comparing them, I was struck by how the fighter now seems shoehorned into a very narrowly defined role of "Defender." Now, neither I nor anyone else should jump to too many conclusions based on delve character sheets...