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The first part I can agree with, but not the second part. An Opportunity Attack allows you to make a Melee Basic Attack which is a power and has the melee keyword. To say otherwise is like saying that a Standard Action isn't a power and doesn't have a melee or ranged keyword, and therefore an...

To be fair, the regional background thing is from Forgotten Realms only, and seems really cheap to me. The Melee Training feat is a little different because it only affects your Melee Basic Attack, not ALL powers. Hit points are something that are dealt with in every round of combat, and where...

True, but when you take Sweeping Blow as your reserve power, then retrain Rain of Blows to Sweeping Blow and then use Reserve Training to swap Come and Get It for Sweeping you have two instances of the same power, which is against the rules. So while, you could use some shenanigans to end up...

This is a common misunderstanding of what a "mark" is. Look up the conditions table in the PHB and you'll see that there's a "marked" condition that grants a -2 to hit against anyone other than the person that marked the target. This is the "generic" rule that you were looking for. All...

Well, isn't this feat only for Clerics? In that case, if a Bard was the only Leader you had, then they would be depending on things like his healing buff for short rests. Secondly, just because someone can cast a heal spell during a short rest doesn't mean they have to. I play a Dragonborn...

Actually, they have some powers that prevent or punish an enemy when they try to get away from you...OA's don't really to be that necessary for them to operate.

Rather than jumping to say why your PC's Barb should keep Hide, I think it's better to ask why he wants Plate? Or better yet, why he's playing a Barb if he wants Plate? He could be a Greatweapon Fighter in Plate for the cost of one feat, and still do a lot of damage with a Barb multiclass and...

Huh? I think you're reading something into it that's not there. If you take this power at level 11, then it means that you pick a power of your level or lower. So you could say, take a level 7 power as part of the feat, and then swap it with the level 7 power you currently have during a short...

I think either of the two above methods would work. The only power source that seems to me to be likely illiterate would be the Primal classes. For others, it's more difficult though. While yes, you could easily have an illiterate Ranger or Rogue, the Fighters and Warlords would likely be...

Yeah, I thought that was understood by people. The point of this to make your MBA stat = primary attack stat (Except in the weird corner case of the 16 STR / 18 CON Dwarf above...but that's another issue). This way, you can give your Wizard (who pumps INT) the ability to make OA's using his...

I don't even think you need an answer B, as answer A says it all. You're retroactively applying a feat and a power to the trigger. OA's grant you a melee basic attack, and that's it...unless it's something specifically allows you to substitute something else for an OA. This feat allows you to...

Yeah, this is one of the reasons why I love my Dragonborn Fighter...Dragon Breath is great mutimarking/minion killing power. I usually try to fire it off in the first round or two of an encounter when enemies are clumped up. And the OA advice is pretty good too. Remember, ANY attack no matter...

When I see "power that lets it move and then attack", I think more of something like Nimble Strike, that has a clear move component and then an attack component. Charging is combining a move and attack into a single action, I don't think that they can be separated that way.

Personally, I'm a big Shielded Sides fan. It's great for use with burst powers because you're now surrounded by a bunch of pissed off, marked enemies that are effectively at a -2 to hit you and can't get CA from flanking. Awesome. Pass Forward is okay, but it seems to get most of it's utility...

There was an interview that some guy did with a couple of the designers and posted a link here on EnWorld. In it, they talked about the Gnome and why it was in the PHB 2. Basically, they said that they weren't quite sure what to do with the race to make them different (subtext: different form...

Exactly. In other words, the only way to end the mark is to kill the Fighter...which is the point of the power. :D Edit: Actually, I think it technically drops off when the Fighter gets knocked unconscious...but saying you have to kill him is so much cooler sounding!

Actually, if it has "Spirit" (p220) in the range, like Protecting Strike, then LoS is determined using your Spirit as the origin square. In other words, your Spirit can attack someone behind a pillar that you can't see (perhaps you saw him duck back there, and know he's behind the pillar).

I assume you mean Spirit Call. It doesn't say Spirit Companions, it's talking about conjurations and zones, which are different. Ancient Warlord's Inspiration (Level 9 Daily, p125) is a conjuration in case you need an example. Since you could conceivably have multiple conjurations or zones...

That seems to be the case. Basically, it's usually easiest to have one really good NAD, and one that's just a couple points behind, and then the third will be kinda low. For example, with my STR/CON Fighter he'll have high FORT, decent REF (thanks to a shield) and a crappy WILL defense. At...

So you're implying that the Wizard is not realistically simulated when using magic? Who says that they have to do large amounts of damage? Some of the iconic Wizards of fantasy never cast anything remotely resembling a Fireball spell (Gandalf, Merlin, Morgan La Fey). As for "narrative...