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Note that the Eagle Shaman from Primal Power is Dex-secondary. However, main point still stands.

Maybe! That's the fun thing about ambiguous wording. Since it uses the word "target", my DM decided it would apply only to the target of a primal healing power--which meant it'd help only the surge-spender of Healing Spirit for me. Not terrible (I took the basically identical heroic feat...

The Compendium is the most valuable part of the whole thing to me--when I was DMing, it made creating impromptu encounters unbelievably easy. Likewise, assigning treasure was a snap and a half. I would just look up all the items of a particular level and category ("so, this level, they get a 6...

I don't believe there is an official rule. In my game, when confronted by people that wanted to kidnap and brainwash them, I just had PC dying work normally, but said that if they failed 3 saves/dropped below -bloodied, they'd just be out of the fight for good, not actually dead.

I like it, but the Standard action requirement makes it pretty hard to choose over Protective Roots. Why was it made like that, when Wizards can move stuff around as a minor?

It's apparently a new Shaman type: the Animist. The Spirit Boon gives adjacent allies +2 to saving throws, and the OA does a d6 and causes the enemy to grant CA. Seems pretty cool! The daily is pretty neat as well: a Stinking Cloud-esque sustainable zone. It does require you to unsummon your...

I like the look of pen, but then I realized that stuff might get changed multiple times. Pencil works great, though.

I'd go with Fire Hawk instead of Storm Spike, but that's just cause Fire Hawk is totally awesome--nothing wrong with SS on its own merits. Other than that, go nuts.

Right. I'm saying, there's no reason to further nerf unsafe teleportation, unless you're concerned about the damage (which might be fair). Eliminating the possibility makes it worse than regular forced movement. DarkLord, you're playing correctly. Didn't mean to confuse anyone!

Lava pits are treated the same with teleportation now as regular forced movement off the edge, though--a save cancels. And it's not like long forced movement distances to put them out of reach of the edge are rare (thunderwave, for one).

Not to mention that both hybrid marks require an immediate action to punish--if he's going to be an effective defender, he won't want to use WLMR much.

The fact that there's a better than even chance for potentially damaging teleportation to be resisted is a pretty good deterrent, though. That right there makes the odds of the power going off completely ~25%--not great. And while the plural of anecdote isn't data, our group has played with...

I like the Mouse Guard system, although it's not devoid of problems. The Instructor skill, for example, can be used to essentially double player checks, by attempting to teach other PCs skills. Similarly, since using skills improves them (an idea I like a lot, incidentally, both in Elder Scrolls...

...Eraser? Or if it's in pen, print out a new one.

By RAW, you can just hit your eagle--the ritual doesn't give them feelings to be hurt. RAI certainly seems to be that they can drop you off and pick you up later. By mid-to-late Paragon, enemies are generally expected to be able to deal with flight, either by flying themselves, or by having...

I like Myth-Weavers for their online sheet, and Orokos.com has a cool feature where you can input the Char Builder summaries and it'll fill in the sheet for you. Even has a nifty dice roller built in.

I'll ignore the points that are just listing class features, especially since some of them are pretty unremarkable (Warden's Grasp is easily the least useful defender punishment, for example). Likewise, two other defenders have THP-granting at-wills, and anyone can take weapon focus and iron...

Honestly, I can't see any reason to houserule the feat. It's fairly impossible to unbalance the game with knowledge checks and rituals, and Skill Focus is not exactly a best-of-breed feat to begin with--I don't see anything wrong with printing slightly conditionally better ones. If a player...

Um. No? They're much less sticky than a Fighter (though Sudden Roots helps), can't punish a shift+charge nearly as well as any other defender, and in the Earthstrength's case, have two medium to terrible NADs. They are tough defenders, certainly, but that really just encourages enemies to ignore...

Eagle encounter powers are based on dex, some pretty heavily. Don't tank it if you go that way. Don't really have any experience with a Stalker Shaman, but I've played a Wizard, which has roughly equivalent AC. Staying back, as mentioned, will be important. Antipathy Gloves can help, and maybe...