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Part of the goal for the essentials is making a good jumping on point for new players. The question is whether the new "type" of race is better for new players or not? In some ways, it's added complexity (as you don't just pick race, but basically a 'sub' race as well). On the other hand, it...

A friend of mine was interested in finding out how a rogue/warlock could, through either hybrid or multiclassing benefit both from shadow walk and the new MP2 Rogue class feature to be able to constantly hide in plain sight. It was already possible, but both involved using up the paragon path to...

My personal experience with 4e: 22-point buy has been the 'standard', but I had some variants, usually involving dice rolling. The concept was that the highest "point value" after rolling amongst the players became the standard, and everyone else could "buy up" to the total ammount. For...

From Dungeons & Dragons Roleplaying Game Official Home Page - Product (Rules Compendium): In addition to providing an overview of the game and how it’s played, this book presents the core rules in a format that is easily referenced during a game. It includes information on level advancement...

It's mostly a combination of being cheaper, and being smaller. The various box sets are mostly flat objects, so the tokens are just another sheet to include. And, the idea would be, in part, to create a market for miniatures, instead of just giving minis away in the main sets...

That seems to fit with the standard method for augmentation, with the augment 1 being very useful (perhaps even more so than augment 2) but only in specific situations.

It's also possible that they want to get the Essential stuff out there to try and build a pool of new players that they can sell miniatures to. If they can, for example, get stuff like the Red Box into chain stores, that could open a path to getting the miniatures in there as well. Even if...

I'm sure that, had 3E/3.5 been included in the mix, it would show a spike that was reduced with 4e (although, in the case of a fighter or rogue, the number of choices would be lower). With multiclassing, and later prestige classes available as an option at many levels, and the number of spell...

Comparing defenders: Fighter - Attack to mark, OA stops target movement, interupt attacks or shifting with MBA Warden - Be adjacent to mark, interupt attacks with comparable to MBA vs. Fort that also gives C/A, can also react to attack at a distance (no damage) Paladin - Minor to mark (a...

Well, they may be ready to "move on", and thus the goblins are likely about to lose their city and the civilization that Red Cloak was hoping he could build by distracting Xykon from his quest.

It used to be questionable whether vertical teleporting an enemy would work or not, but the recent errata (if you teleport your enemy into a dangerous situation (one that would cause a fall, onto lava, etc) they get a saving throw to cancel the forced teleport.

A couple of points. First of all, as an arcane class, there will be a certain ammount of controller "flair" to the class. Secondly, controllers and leaders are similar in a number of ways. Where a leader would give his party a boost in speed, extra movement and the like ... the controller...

However, in this case "can" isn't just acknowledging that WotC has no power to "enforce" how a group plays in their own homes, and that houseruling and dice roll fudging, etc, occur. It is saying that it's up to the DM to decide what is reasonable for free actions. As for newbies ... how...

Considering they still haven't clarified the "weapons as implement" rules, there may be some unintended consequences of mixing certain weapon group specific enchantments, feats, etc ... Since PH3 is apparently supposed to clarify that, it would be a likely place for a general "any weapon as...

It's quite possible this occured during the design of the actual game. The "goal" for PCs was to, like monsters, have their stuff increase at approximately that rate, but not wanting to have boosts coming from solely from level (especialy including old staples such as stat increases over time...

The fighters skill at disrupting an enemies attacks isn't directly tied to whether they had recently hit it or not. By that measure, most strikers are "more skilled" because they are dishing out the damage. In the above example, the monster may choose to attack the defender that crit him anyway...

Because other rules they introduce will be mandatory? "You aren't allowed to use this campaign setting unless you use these rules." Considering that the previous setting releases, especially the players guides, are basically stuff you can kitbash and plop into any setting optionally ... most...

There is no mechanical BENEFIT to saying "I focus on this enemy". Unless of course there is. Such as a ranger's ability to focus on an enemy as his quarry, or an avenger's ability to focus his oath of enmity onto a single target. Again, the only mark that needs to be "rationalize" is going...

The concept of the increasing stats over time being lost would have an impact. Immediately, odd stats would be nearly worthless (and the stat prerequisites would be altered as a result). Stats increasing over time do not simply have an impact on attacks and defenses. There are skills (which...

From my experience: H 1-3, P-1 and a bit of P-2) Rogue Daggermasters are going to be hit machines. Ours started with 20 dex anyway, so the bonus was just gravy (the hand crossbow in the other hand had a lower hit roll, but fired quite often with the tons of critting). The hit 'gap' was even...