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It's 1/100 turns to doublecrit on Twin Strike if you crit on 19-20 and have nothing else focused on crits. Increase your ability to crit to 18-20 or add in more attacks per turn via Cascade of Blades or minor/free/immediate action attacks and a ranger could score two or more crits on the same...

See also how most dwarf and elf subraces have been eliminated, or turned into feat trees. Heritage feats and the like could handle a lot of these. Like say: Xeph Heritage (Heritage feat) As long as you have at least one power point remaining, your speed increases by one. Maenad Heritage...

Even in 3rd ed it seemed like the Kalashtar were the Elan 2.0. They were another psionic race that was made by a human fusing with a creepy psionic aberration thingy. eberron could have made the Elan into a core race for the setting, but instead chose to make a new, nearly identical race. So...

The part you're wrong about isn't the "requires special language" part, it's the "unlike previous editions". Every edition has had a large amount of idiosyncratic use of the English language, and each edition has overhauled the game's rules such that relying on previous edition knowledge would...

I don't see any reason it wouldn't work.

It was, and it's gone now. The current system rewards two handed weapons in a variety of other ways, so this mechanic went by the wayside.

I'd interpret it as restoring a single use of the power, just like how it would affect any other divine encounter power.

Well, we already saw a feat or two that gave you specific benefits if you had a certain weapon as your implement. (Using a spear gives you some sliding added to your powers.) So it might be more along those lines. Then again, WotC has surprised everyone in the past.

A lot of those powers were Weapon attacks initially and got changed. I wouldn't expect any powers with the Weapon keyword. Melee basic attacks, including Opportunity Attacks. Monks should thematically be able to punch someone effectively, and be a viable threat in melee if you try to move...

The additional damage from two handed weapons is included in their damage die, so there is no additional bonus. (In the case of Bastard Sword vs. Greatsword, one is a Superior weapon and one is a military weapon. So you spent a feat to get that +1 damage. The two handed guy could be wielding a...

When I established the deadline, it became the player's job to schedule additional sessions of the game and to find time to play. So we had the last session right around the proper end time (I don't remember where the date exactly fell relative to 4e's release).

I ran a game in 3rd ed which had the real world time limit of "This game ends when 4e comes out". The PCs were working to fight off an interplanar invasion/giant planar conjunction by gathering the Rod of Seven Parts. When the main PC gathered the last bit, she ascended into godhood, fought...

Does the Battlemind's mark only give the standard -2 to hit? Does the mark just stick around until you mark someone else, or does it go away after some time (end of your next turn, perhaps). Does the Battlemind follow the psion and Ardent method, where it gets a few at-wills and some Power...

This was actually true of banshrae in 3rd edition as well. (They were in one of the later MMs, though I couldn't say which one.)

My 8 str wizard is wielding a non magic dagger. A monster decides that my melee basic attacks suck (he's right), so freely runs past me, provoking an OA. I take it, roll really well and actually hit. Then I roll damage and get a 1 on a d4. That plus my Str modifier (-1) gives a result of 0...

Cull the Herd is just a Ranged 5 power. It only targets one creature (because the target line says so). Are you thinking of something different? For other powers that are actually area bursts (like Twisting Vines), you target whatever it says. Twisting Vines targets every creature in the...

Could we keep irrelevant 4e bashing and edition flamewars in other threads, where they belong, please?

The 4e MM is more focused on giving the stats for monsters that PCs are actually likely to fight. Therefore, Good and unaligned monsters are less common in there than they once were, and aquatic creatures are far less common (since in previous editions aquatic creatures took up large amounts of...

indeed, if you're only going to have one (and neither has a cool enchantment), you probably want the +2 Ki focus. You can use it to make an unenchanted fullblade into a +2 fullblade, but it's easier to hide and could be used for other weapons you wield as well, from a simple dagger to whatever...

"Fortitude is the highest defense" is true of MM1 monsters, but not monsters in the MM2 or later publications. In more recent books, the NADs have been closer to balanced, whereas in the MM1 Fort was on average only slightly below AC, and sometimes above it. Depending on what monster books...