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I've been using a couple of NPCs to supplement a small party. So far they've worked fine except this same healing surge issue. Here's what I suggest you do: Either make it one surge per tier per milestone (instead of per day) or make it one surge per tier per actual combat encounter. You...

Martial: Every class has Strength as a primary or secondary stat. Divine: Both classes have both Charisma and Wisdom as primary or secondary stats, (thus far leading to poor Reflex scores). Arcane: All use Intelligence as a primary or secondary stat.

If you don't want to use kobolds, goblins or undead, I'd suggest looking at the PC race writeups of monsters in the back of the MM. Then you take those over to the NPC creation rules in the DMG (~page 185, not the NPC class templates a few pages earlier). And make some NPCs for the PCs to...

Or just make it a single die roll, if they want it to be random for some reason. But otherwise, this is a good point.

The rules repeatedly state that having a weapon in your off hand does not by itself grant any additional attacks. See the section on Off-Hand weapons, the section on Two weapon Fighting and somewhere in the combat section. You need a specific power that grants attacks with both weapons, like a...

The "Temporary hit points from different sources don't stack" is modifying the general stacking rule, which is "typed bonuses of the same type don't stack, but untyped bonuses from different sources do". Untyped bonuses (such as temp HP) from the same source don't stack. You won't find a rule...

Lay on Hands is a melee power. Melee powers never provoke. There are four (five if you count personal) power types: Melee, Close, Area and Ranged. Melee and Close never provoke, whereas Ranged and Area do.

This would be fine, though you'd need a rule saying that you have to wait about five levels between taking the same power boost again. Otherwise you could just increase your bonus to hit to +6 at 6th level and hit everything all the time (but be a glass cannon, as your defenses would still be...

Orc Raider, Berserker and Bloodrager all have specific crit damage listings, bu none add more than one d12. Which makes sense: they're wielding a High Crit weapon (a Greataxe) which adds 1(W) are Heroic Tier. The static part of their crits is in each case equal to maximum on their normal...

Because it doesn't deal 30 damage on a crit. It deals 10 damage plus 2d10 additional damage (for an average damage of 21). I don't believe the example cited in the first post is real or accurate. The examples I can think of are all like this: 1d10+5 (2d10+15 on a crit). Which makes it clear...

Lots. Each new campaign setting will have some (Forgotten Realms just came out and has Drow and Genasi), and we have Dragon articles expanding Gnoll and Warforged to full PHB style writeups. And when the PHBII comes out we'll have another half-dozen or so races (which are all but officially...

It's probably a typo. Some earlier version of the monster had an ability called "Coordinated Fire" that was either removed or renamed (or had its name removed). I seem to recall hobgoblins in an early preview having such a name, probably for the ability Galeman mentions. But that might be...

Using the Sword of Kings ability on a Reliable power would basically turn an encounter power into an at-will. If you hit anyone, Sword of Kings makes sure it is unexpended. If you miss, Reliable keeps it unexpended. I wonder if this is how it is supposed to be. I wonder if it will get...

It's already been shown definitively that the goblin tactics won't get you what you want. But that doesn't mean you cannot accelerate two goblins to near light speeds and then collide them. The revised proposal for the Goblin Supercollider looks like this: you have a couple mile long row of...

It has been my experience over a lot of D&D play that fun always improves when you give the players the map. Giving the players a map of the dungeon means that they can plan ahead, that they can make meaningful decisions about where they're going and moves one more thing from the "DM hassle"...

Somewhere it was pointed out that the 4th ed weapon size rules actually help the Halfling, not hinder him. As mentioned above, a small sized Greatsword is mechanically identical to a longsword, so the rules treat them the same rather than use 3.X style complicated rules. You can find most...

If you already took the multiclass into Wizard and took the Utility power as something else, you would need to swap that Utility power back to a Fighter power and swap the appropriate level Fighter power for Stoneskin. You do both swaps when you next level. Or wait until Epic for Eternal...

I believe that Customer Service's answer was that you have to miss all targets for a Reliable power to remain unexpended.

If you told me that, I'd assume that the claw makes me immobilized and that the bite causes Helplessness/weakened/Dazed/something similar. Which is pretty good. What I'd do as GM is say something more or less like what you say, and then clarify in rules terms if the players asked "Does that...

The Sleep spell is more than just mundane sleep, so even creatures that don't need to sleep (like Eladrin and constructs) can be effected by it.