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Whoops! My bad, you're right. You can only get two 18's and a 13, which is a minor difference. The point still stands though that no matter what your starting stats at least one will lag behind unless you're spreading your stats around pretty thing...which makes life difficult at higher...

Oh, I wasn't implying a video of it. For one, we can't even be sure it's actually you in the video or that it's even real armor and not just something made out of tin foil. There's a certain amount of implicit trust involved anyway, so I would just take you at your word that you had tried...

That's irrelevant for anything past the first couple of levels. To remain at a competitive level over the course of the campaign it's usually best to just pick two stats and raise those at every one of the "+1 to two stats" levels. If you're doing that, then you'll always have a third stat...

As a player, I would have to say that this is spot on. I currently play a Fighter, and I've always liked that style of play. I love the new marking mechanic that they created, and the things like Combat Superiority and different powers that get bonuses based on what weapon you're using and...

Regardless of that, most of that stuff won't be on you while sleeping. So yeah, it might be a drain during the day when you're lugging it around, but you're not sleeping with your pack on your back. In fact, I imagine that most adventurer's would probably sleep with their pack and various...

Who says it has to be a class ability? I don't recall the PHB saying that roles were defined by class abilities, just that certain classes filled certain rolls. To better illustrate the point, look at the Multiclass feats. What do they give you? Cleric and Warlord MC feats give you a once a...

Well, since you bring up the Fighter, I thought I would comment on that since I play one. The Fighter has three secondary stats. There's the a STR/CON build, STR/DEX build and a STR/WIS build. It's basically impossible to juggle 4 different stats, so you're always going to be limited in some...

I don't really agree with that. The Fighter exercises "control" only in a limited definition of it. You can just as easily call this "stickiness" or "defending". As a Fighter, I can't make a guy squares away from me move towards me (as in "forced movement", not just getting his attention)...

I don't understand where you're getting this from. The Ruthless Ruffian class feature reads "If you use a club or a mace to deliver an attack that has the rattling keyword, add your Strength modifier to the damage roll." So unless you're actually using a club or a mace in the attack, you don't...

I guess I'm just really not seeing the problem here...well, except for maybe with the Paladin, he's a bit odd (although Divine Challenge is largely to blame for that...) Ranger: How is the Ranger weakened by being dual stat? You're not supposed to play hybrid Rangers, as evidenced by the fact...

That last part there is key. Sure, in the above example of the 2 Hobgoblins and the Orc, you couldn't get all three in the burst. However, the players can try and work together to set things up. See below: (1,2,3 are enemies, F is Fighter, W is Wizard, x is unoccupied) x12x3x xxxxFx xxWxxx...

I think the problem is that you're looking at racial options and seeing "Hey, cool power", whereas the Humans don't have one. While that's true, I think there's some things you're overlooking, like feats. There's a ton of Human only feats that are pretty powerful, and only they get access to...

Yeah, but again, you're punishing the players that don't have any points in DEX. The high-DEX characters or the Wizard in Cloth only need to keep up one set of armor, and that's it. They can either sleep without and rely on their DEX to see them through the fight, or wear it (if it's cloth)...

Yeah, I've always thought that Humans could do okay as a Melee Cleric. If you focus on STR and WIS, you can pick up Lance of Faith as your 3rd At-Will and have a ranged attack for enemies beyond your reach, or for when you're banged up. Plus, it gives you two different ways to grant someone...

Yeah, I think most of what you said is the right way to look at it. With such a small space, the PC's will be at a large disadvantage as well. There's a ton of striker powers that allow you to do things like shift twice your speed in order to get out of trouble...in a 5x5 square, such things...

Actually, that's actually a really good mechanic, and the best I've seen so far. Except for Plate, most armors would only cost an hour or two extra, which isn't bad at all. It also doesn't unduly punish a certain segment of the group, it just adds some more time onto the extended rests. (You...

Fine, so you have your party of 5 PC's. I assume you want all of them in the sphere? Let's say you have a Fighter, Paladin, Rogue, Wizard and Cleric (easier for my chart below). Let's say it looks like this: xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxFPx xRWC That's a pretty good defensive setup with the...

Well, isn't that part of the point that you've been arguing about? If the Wizard is just trapping himself with a bunch of Minions then what's the point? He could've used that Standard to drop an AoE on them and finished them off properly without using the Orb. I thought the whole point was to...

Yeah, don't get caught up in the names of classes. Some of the concepts in older editions are embodied in new classes now, and sometimes concepts that you had to multiclass or dual class for are now embodied in a single class. You need to look at what the classes are actually capable of...

Well, AFAIK it wasn't. Most of your troops were wearing lighter armor anyway. Stuff like leather or chain, not plate. Therefore, it would be easier for them to quickly pull on some armor in the even of a night raid. Even still though, my point was that in the D&D world you have these small...