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But you can swap out all the powers with a level for similar powers with a level from the larger class grouping.

There are already encounter stances. They came out in Dragon a few months ago.

From a core rules perspective, not much has changed at all. From the player's perspective, some skill usages have changed (especially Stealth), aid another has changed, and the way some conditions are defined have been changed (they still work the same, but they've been clarified or have had...

I would rule that a hard DC Intelligence, Diplomacy, or Bluff check may do the trick, but I'd also rule that they could only communicate in the most rudimentary fashion.

The free action change is 1/turn not 1/round; rampage only triggers off barbarian attack powers, so unless your player was crit'ing often on off-turn barbarian powers as a free action granted by another PC, it shouldn't make much difference.

BTW, here are some interesting quotes from Mike Mearls over from the WotC boards:

One of my player's got a copy of Bloodsand Arena and ran it as a one-shot for us last week. It was awesome, especially the arena fight; I loved the challenge of not doing any damage to our opponents (we faced the gith), even if my battlemind (and our party) got stuck in a sticky situation and...

All the content in the Dragon Annual is from the DDI magazines and the compilation does include some of the best articles from the first year of 4e. In terms of power level, the DDI content is no better or worse than content published in the actual books, especially after its compiled at the...

The Q1 RPG releases look good to me, though I wish there was a book release in January in addition to the tiles. I plan on getting all the Gamma World stuff for one-shots and maybe adding a little sci-fi to my 4e fantasy, I wish I had the Nentir Vale book today since that's where my campaign is...

Another example of this type of "metaplot" in core 4e is that the ending of Paizo's Savage Tide AP was written into Demogorgon's background according to last Monday's Demonomicon excerpt.

It makes sense to flush out the Nentir Vale a bit more if that's the setting being presented in the Essentials series. Its not likely that the new players its targeted to will have any sort of attachment to the Realms, Eberron, or Dark Sun.

I killed a PC in the second session of my campaign; a pair of post-errata needlefang drake swarms (as well as a bunch of halfling thugs) did in our 1st level tiefling bard (most of the party was also below 0 hit points by the end of that one, it was brutal). In our first 4e campaign, the DM...

At this point, I think DDI will become the primary vehicle for existing class support instead of additional power books, especially after the Essentials line is released. I also think there's a good chance that the 3rd build for the runepriest and seeker will come through DDI, similar to what...

There's only one crunch element that is specifically geared towards bards and that's the heroic tier feat Stirring Song of Baator; it provides temporary hit points to an ally when you hit an enemy with a bard attack power that has the fire or fear keyword. However, there are some other things...

Its a nice little article and it should give a boost to attendance at D&D Encounters. I need to free up some time on a Wednesday so I can finally participate.

I don't think so, here's a list of monsters from 1e AD&D monster books that I think can still be converted (I'm intentionally leaving out the named creatures and some I've heard are coming out): MM1 Aerial Servant Aquatic Elf Blink Dog Brownie Dragon Turtle Eye of the Deep Fungus, Shrieker...

MM3 is readily available in the US at WotC premier game stores since today is 10 days before the official release date. I looked at it two hours ago and it looks awesome (I almost bought it right there, but my wife wouldn't like me spending more money if I could get it from; I had to content...

I don't have it, but I checked it out at the LGS the other day. It contains five adventures, but I can only definitely remember four of them: Storm Tower Winter of the Witch Menace of the Icy Spire Throne of the Stone-Skinned King

Yeah, if anything, the Pathfinder RPG rulebook is a loss leader for the modules, APs, and campaign setting materials. Here's a thing to consider. The statement attributed to WotC that "modules don't sell" is what, almost a decade old at this point, and just because it described WotC publishing...

So what was the warlock doing while the rest of the party took a short rest?