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Except, they don't. Stealing is only a small part of what the class is really about - backstabbing, scouting, and trap-disarming are all arguably more important aspects. And only in D&D is "barbarian" synonymous with "berserker".

It would be nice! I just don't think it's possible. There's just no way to control a battlefield without magic, extensive pre-fight preparation... or outright silliness, like, for one example, archers who have the precision to pin someone to the wall by their shirt but are strangely...

And you don't see this as a bad thing?

Because flexibility in a class is a good thing? I mean, you could just as well say "Why in the world do fighters have exclusive access to Weapon Specialization if they expected anybody to not take it?" And yet, fighters have the choice of taking Weapon Specialization or a different feat, and...

Weapon Aptitude. One of the often-overlooked little details that makes warblades so much cooler than fighters even apart from the maneuvers thing. I don't think it'll show up in 4e, though. They're really pursuing the idea that fighters using different weapons fight differently. Your talents...

I don't think that's quite fair. A warrior-mage who uses defensive spells in place of armor is not at all unreasonable, conceptwise, or we wouldn't have the Abjurant Champion. It's not comparable to fighters casting heal spells - mage armor is something that it would actually make sense for...

I don't think they meant "swords will be better than other weapons". It sounded like swords will be the most adaptable weapon, good in all circumstances, and other weapons will be more lopsided, better than swords at one thing but not as good at other things. Hopefully they'll get the balance...

Why would there be an attack roll? The spell text doesn't mention anything like that. You deal damage, they can make a Reflex save to halve it. That's it.

Suggestions are not the same thing as orders. They're... not even close, actually.

Most of the people crying MMO influence have never actually played a MMO, not to mention never played 4e, and basically have no idea what they're talking about. One popular complaint from these people is that that the defender/striker/leader/controller thing is just like the tank/DPS/healbot...

Evocation is about evoking energies and forces. That's why it has spells like wall of force as well as spells like fireball. It would only make sense for weapon enhancement if the enhancement worked by wrapping the weapon in a field of force that guides the blow or something. And if that were...

I do this too. I've recently come to understand that some people think of classes as archetypes and that characters should fit those archetypes, but it stills seems bizarre to me.

Swordsage with Improved Unarmed Strike. You even get to use an actual sword instead of some wonky Okinawan weapon improvised from a farming tool.

Yeah, evocation makes... no sense whatsoever. It should be transmutation.

I almost used one as a d20 in a fight last game. It is definitely a problem. I'd say they should be a different color or something, but the regular d20s don't come in standardized colors. I guess the best method is to pick the colors of dice you buy carefully.

How often do you really need probabilities of less than 5%? A d20 can do the job perfectly well.

Well, so much for this thread. This is why we can't have nice things.

Where in the name of all that's holy did people get this crazy idea that warlords will have any ability to control other PCs' actions?

Even Strength is a conflation of fast-twitch and slow-twitch muscle, plus a certain amount of endurance and even just mass. (Men and women having different average strengths is no problem for D&D, though - just give your female NPCs lower Str stats. PCs are supposed to be exceptional, not...

Plus, duskblade lets you play a warrior-mage right from the start, instead of having to endure several levels of waiting to play the character you wanted. And between channeling spells and free quickenings, you can actually play a magical warrior instead of a warrior who can cast spells when he...