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In their article on minions they actually discussed doing the 10% hp thing (or something similar). They found that the problem was then the minion sometimes survived a hit and you'd have to keep track of their hit poitns individually. This defeated their whole purpose and there just wasn't any...

I'd say that if the players do hire a bunch of lesser wizards to help them out in a dungeon, then the wizards become minions too (and since monsters lose most of their powers when they convert to minion status, the wizards would too and would just have basic ranged attacks).

From what I've heard, it's less that they didn't playtest the skill challenges and more that that the version the playtesters were using was different then the version in the PHB.

I've seen a number of adventures where you don't have the option to opt out of challenges for one of many possible reasons. For example in the new adventure path adventure there are challenges where there are certain skills that at least one player needs to roll every "round" and certain other...

I don't disagree that it's artificial. Granting CA is far weaker then granting CA AND missing a full round of attacks. As for running away....it draws an attack of opportunity with CA and then the target will just attack your friends. So yes if you change the rule it will be less...

Currently if your knock your target prone or daze him, you can shift one square away and he can not attack you in melee in any way. This is very strong, and one of the best uses of these abilties. If you change this rule, this will no longer be true. Knocking people prone in particular will...

Well it doesn't really matter if your target misses you, because then they would have missed with enfeebling strike too. In fact bolstering is much better in that case because the temporary hit points are sitll there to prevent an attack from a different target. Obviously though if you start the...

At level 15, 20 damage is even less significant then that. My sword and shield fighter at lvl 16 for example would have an average basic attack damage of 25.5 on a hit. And he's obviously not a striker.

Having no minimum distance for charge would have far reaching consequences beyond the surprise round, greatly weakening many control powers.

Fair enough, so if a 2 handed implement is ever put in game, it's possible halflings will be able to use it. Though we won't know for sure until one is put in the game.

Actually if the staves required two hands to use as an implement then that would in fact be a rule denying them the use of staves as an implement. There are plenty of items halflings can't use. They aren't all spelled out, except by nature of being two handed. Regardless as I said above, I've...

Hmmm......ok I agree with all of that although I'm not sure what your point is exactly. Your welcome to call your wizard's staff a walking staff, just like your welcome to call a quarterstaff a walking staff. It will still be a walking staff that is as long as and weighs the same as a...

Yes, if you go back and read what I said, you will noticed that this is exactly what I said as well. I say in several places that the fact that it's a 2 handed quarterstaff doesn't necesarily mean it can't be used one handed as a an implement (though at the time I felt there was more evidence...

First off the bit about staves being quarterstaves when used as a weapon is not from the weapon section, but from both the implement section (under equipment) and the magic stave section of the PHB. There is no question that a halfling could not use a staff as a weapon because it's too big for...

My issue with boundless endurance is that regeneration occurs on the beginning of your turn. So in order to use it properly you have either a) Use it before your bloodied and hope you don't waste it or b) Use it while your bloodied and hope you will still be bloodied (as opposed to...

You'll note I covered all those things in my post, and that a paladin with shield is very far from unhittable. I've seen level 1 modules where monsters hit ac 20 on a 10 without flanking or bonuses. The math works as long as your target only attacks the paladin. It doesn't matter if other...

It's easy enough to do the math comparing bolstering strike to enfeebling strike in terms of pure damage prevention. Enfeebling strike has a 10% chance to turn an attack that would otherwise have hit into a miss. To determine how much that's worth, take a monsters average damage per round...

Nope, it doesn't increase the base weapon damage, it's just a feat bonus to damage. Those get added in at the end.

A valid point on the orb, my point is just that clearly a staff is for intents and purposes identical to a big two handed quarterstaff in every way except for it's name and the fact that it can be used as an implement. It even has the same weight, and is described as being at least long as the...

Like I said it's not the wizard holding the staff in one hand that's a stretch from a logical perspective. It's claiming that it's just a short one handed staff that morphs into a 2 handed quarterstaff when you whack somebody with it that is. As for using a 2 handed staff in 1 hand while...