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I'm beginning to think it's better to pick up orb mastery as your extra implement feat. Your not going to assign an 18 to wisdom, and even if you go with 16 wisdom, +2 for race (giving you a max of 16 int) a -4 on saves on sleep once per day isn't necesarily that big of a deal. Nor is -4 to...

Don't disagree with you there, and I think that is the heart of the rule. The main disagreement is that I and many others have no problem justifying completely in game the fact that killing the rat works fine in the middle of battle, but not when you save it to kill later. This is probably not...

I think your confusing 2 seperate points. 1) It's a DM decision if the target is a credible threat. 2) It's common sense that the the powers that be only reward you for smiting credible threats and not harmless animals or weak monsters you keep in a cage.

Yeah it makes no sense at all that the dark powers that sent you to harvest the souls of worthy opponents would not reward you for stepping on ants. Or that a diety who rewards you for doing battle against his enemies would not also reward you for killing a chicken.

I should point out that channel divinity feats can only be used once per encounter, and prevent you from using your other channel divinity powers for that encounter. With that being said, if a hydra moves up to you and attacks you 8 times and spends an action point to attack you 8 more...

Getting back to the original issue again, I was reading over the powers again and there is actually a very good reason for the "inconsistency" on grasping shadows. The zone effect of grasping shadows needs to work differently then the hit effect. This is because if the zone effect occurs during...

I'll have to take your word for it that nobody has ever come up with errors or obvious balance problems in that book. That's quite impressive if true :)

I want to say some wizard feats use wisdom too......I know the extra spellbook one does. I was also surprised by the lack of wisdom spells. Thunderwave seems like it could get pretty insane with a high wisdom though.

Agreed, this type of thing has the potential to be bad, and should generally be avoided. As for doubting their attention to detail.....I doubt that about every RPG in existance. Perhaps there is a game that doesn't regularly screw up like this (or in far worse ways) but I've never played it...

The duration inconistency actually makes no difference at all. Immobilization gives no bonuses to your attackers and only prevents the person from moving. Slow is the same way, except it reduces your movement to 2. Regardless if your enemy is immobilized or slowed until the end of your turn...

It probably depends on your class. The most important thing you are gaining from 2 stat points is +1 to hit. Hit bonuses are rare and hard to come by. Damage is nice too, but many things boost damage. And defences are not a reason to go for an 18, because you can get more defences by spreading...

Maybe a version of TToE that was more then 25% complete. I'd love any kind of turn based computer game that was actually good....but that's not something we've seen from D&D since 3E. I'd settle for another Baldur's Gate type game.

Actually the PHB specifically states that a wizard's staff implement also counts as a quarterstaff for weapon use.

And unless your some rare high strength warlock I don't think anyone is going to be too scared of your AoO's anyway. Granted you need 13 strength to even use a light shield, but that is still is likely to make for a feeble basic attack.

You can have quite a few powers that are usable once a day. It's only the powers that say things like cleric daily 5 that replace each other.

I'll throw my support behind once per day too. I never even considered the other until I saw this thread. It says you can use healing word once per day. Normally you can use healing word twice per encounter, but that is changed by the specific rule. Seems pretty clear. I think some people are...

You know you don't have to put points into wisdom for a wizard. Only 2 at will powers and orb mastery use it. You don't have to be an orb master, you said you liked high con and that's really strong for staff masters. Your staff can even look like an orb if that's important to your character...

You can see some interesting examples of skill challenges in the new module Heathen posted on Dungeon. Three things are notables there 1) Although there are absolute success and failure conditions, every success can give tidbits of information even if you fail the challenge. 2) They don't use...

One other good way to mess with ranged attackers is to use monsters who are in some way "sticky". This might be because they daze, imobilize, restrain,grab or because they follow the target everytime they shift. This will cause an attack of opportunity everytime a ranged power is used.

I'm not aware of any conjured creatures in the game. There are effects that can attack but have no hit points and can't be attacked back, but they are certainly not creatures. Perhaps in another book someday.