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The only wierd thing about trolls is that if you use the RAW they have to be actually dropped to 0 by the fire attack. If you drop them to 0 with a regular attack then burning the body doesn't help. Not that I'd actually ever play like that, or expect anyone else to. It's just an amusing side...

Well in 3.x as well dragons tended to be a lot tougher then their CR. Seems to be a D&D tradition. As for rules mastery, I'd say there are fewer screw ups you can make in 4e then in 3e. I've seen 3e chars that were absolutely useless in every possible way even at high level. I'm hoping not to...

Keep in mind that there is no way for the ocre jelly to trigger his own healing surges and no monsters with abilities that interact with them. So this situation is unlikely to come up unless a PC decides to heal one. But I'd personally assume that each new ooze has max hp equal to 50% of the...

The only thing I have to add here is that jumping from 10 to 11 is a pretty huge deal. Your striker powers all do an extra d6, many of your damage boosting feats get an extra +1, your stats all go up by 1, and you get your paragon path and paragon feats. It's entirely possible that the problem...

Now that is a quite reasonable idea. Personally I might add a significant cost but make it far cheaper then buying/ehcnating the new things from scratch. But that's just me. In an unrelated side note, the font color you use is really painful to read against a black background.

While this is true, I'm still taking feats that are very valuable for a certain class, and putting points into stats that give little to no benefit as a result. It's no different then what the wizard is doing, even if the wizard is taking a wizard specific feat. The only difference is that the...

Your probably right that it's the only class specific feat that requires an unusual stat, but there aren't that many class specific feats in the game. To give you an example however, my radiant cleric would really like the +1 fire, +1 radiant damage feat and that requires 13 con, 13 dex. Because...

That would work, but given that I believe it only works on one item on a time it would also be extremely slow....

The default rules of the game are that the group should find about 4 useful magic items per level as well as enough gold to consider buying the occasional item. You could argue that this isn't really rare, but either way players enjoy finding items and there is some degree of an item curve...

There are other ways to get gold to use for rituals/enchanting/magic items then breaking down your magic items. The treasure tables have you finding quite a bit of gold which can be used to buy things such as magical spiked chains or enchanting components for your ancestral sword. And yes god...

I actually had a bigger problem in 3e with players just selling items they found which weren't absolutely perfect for them and buying new items. It takes all the wonder of finding new stuff out of the game. 20% is enough of a penalty that players are encouraged to actually use what they find...

I'd think at the very least a cure disease ritual should cure the infection and gangrene and put somebody back to the initial stage of the "disease". Keep in mind too that once you hit the final stages of the disease you can no longer make checks to recover. There should be some way not to die...

Just wanted to point out that wizards are far from the only class that has to consiider using points in a way they would prefer not to in order to get a powerful feat or two. If you were to house rule spell focus for wizards you'd probably want to house rule other feats for other classes...

Well I'm not sure I'd say they are unsuitable for play......but quoting the massive number of people playing a certain type of character is probably not good evidence that it isn't overpowered :).

One of the most important uses of stats in 4e is to qualify for feats. All feat stat requirements are odd. It's not unusual to see a 4e character with an odd score in one or more stats just for the purpose of gaining feats.

Although it is covered in your list, another important decision advanced players will want to make is what feats to take at higher levels. This is important because some very strong paragon feats have stat requirements, and may require you to move stats in ways you otherwise would not. A wizard...

??? 3.x had builds and sample characters in the class descriptions too, it never stopped me or anyone else from ignoring them and making their own character. In fact if there is one thing that 3e and 4e has in common it's that trusting in the default build is usually a really bad idea.....

The TWF feat is actually decent for a rogue too, it's not like he has a ton to do with that other hand.

I didn't realize about the burst thing, so that doesn't help. But still even if Orcus can't usually make his checks to find the ranger, he can still see where the arrows he shoots come from. That will give him a pretty good idea of where to start wandering around. On average I think he could...

Given his insane perception score, Orcus can probably pretty easily figure out about what square the arrow attacks originated from, give or take. All he has to do is move around until he bumps into somebody and then smack them. It may take him a few rounds, but given his speed and size he can...