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I'd echo what others said and just add: Relax. +12 to-hit with a weapon attack at level 5 isn't even that big of a deal. Munchkin optimizers can easily achieve that with perfectly by-the-book magic item handouts. So you're not really breaking anything. They might be a bit "ahead" by having...

No, I don't think it works out that way in practice. PCs dish out far more damage than they take, and Wizards especially tend to make many more attack rolls than monsters make against them. Many monsters can't return fire if they're immobile or dazed, let alone stunned or removed from play...

It's not entirely standard. Ghost beholders and shadows don't have that condition, but they do have reduced hit points instead. The main point in those cases is to reduce the grindiness from half damage due to the insubstantial trait. I think with the dimensional horror it's not just about...

It's nasty, but I think the only thing I'd add is a way for PCs to end the Shift Dimensions ability. I'd probably just add that it ends if the Horror takes force damage (maybe specifically from a non-discorporated source?). I mean, sure, when bloodied it can easily chew through one...

I use 4e versions of these: http://esix.pbworks.com/f/RaisingtheStakes.pdf . For the "death flag" rule I use a lesser version; dead is still "dead" but guaranteed to not be permanent unless the "death flag" was raised, and raising it simply grants one "use anytime" action point. I also use the...

Enforcing the rules of the game is not being a dick (even if your players complain). You can't cover an entire town with a single casting of Undead Ward, period. Sure, take a month and blanket it with 30 castings... costing more like 1000 gp in components. This is available to level 6...

This was pretty directly addressed in an early Dragon article. "[...] the star pact, which connects its followers to what many believe are simple stars, though others describe them as horrific monsters." Basically some (or, more terrifyingly, all) stars serve as windows into Far Realm entities...

Your ability scores are just weird. You obviously didn't start out with the regular point buy, but despite having over-all good scores your primary (Str) is still only 16. So that's not helping you out. You need to get any help you can on attack bonus. Valiant Strike might be okay, but...

It's hard to say much without specifics, but I'd mostly level up everything as normal, and then add something special to 1 or 2 monsters, to make them pseudo-elites. I rarely double HP (too grindy), but I'll do some of the other "elite-making" stuff like adding a high-damage encounter power...

The +2 is there to make the thrall's attack worth using at all. Even with your implement bonus and the weapon proficiency bonus, Int vs AC for 1[W]+Int damage and no riders is pretty lame for a paragon-level controller, since every one of your at-wills is going to be more interesting. With the...

In the PH3, there's the Abduction Ki Focus which has a property where you can slide whoever you hit with an MBA one square. Have a martial Essentials character take the theme and you're golden. The daily power's usable by any class too.

There's no reason to compare the elementalist at-wills to any AEDU subclass's at-wills. They don't have a level, nobody else can take them, the elementalist gets no other attack powers, etc... it's apples and oranges, really. But slow in an area burst at-will is too good? Really? Is that why...

Sorry, I just looked back at all the update PDFs I have since Nov 2009, and although it's possible I'm missing one, none of them have the errata you describe. As far as I can tell, Radiant One has always been open to all classes.

Well, the abusability is that it's extra damage "any time you deal damage with CA". Not just added to damage rolls, not just once a turn, but every time. However, this is generally abused by dedicated warlock builds or weird battlemind/morninglords who are exploiting radiant vulnerability...

Imix appeared in a Monster Manual, not a delve book or adventure module. It might have been nice to have a little more guidance on what kind of sidekicks/generals he could have. But really, he's lord of all fire creatures, and even with the paucity of epic monsters there are numerous epic...

Looks cool, but I don't really understand the level 20 power or the "Creatures as Weapons" sidebar. Why is Hurler's Rage a ranged weapon power? Why Str +4? Is the secondary supposed to allow you to use your grabbed target (the sidebar seems to prohibit this)? Why can grabbed creatures only...

Here's something I use, a "random point buy". Roll a d12, and take the corresponding array: 1: 18, 14, 11, 10, 10, 8 2: 18, 13, 13, 10, 10, 8 3: 18, 12, 12, 12, 10, 8 4: 17, 16, 11, 10, 10, 8 5: 17, 15, 13, 10, 10, 8 6: 17, 14, 14, 10, 10, 8 7: 17, 13, 13, 13, 10, 9 8: 16, 16, 13, 11, 10, 8 9...

Comparing my old and new maps, I'm not actually seeing any new islands at all. There have always been lots of relatively small ones scattered around, most unnamed. There are mechanical changes with minor fluff implications, like the aforementioned warforged healing issue, and the way...

I'd say just stick with Knight. The aura affects any adjacent enemy, and she can use the Cleaving Assault stance a lot. She won't explicitly be "attacking" a whole group in a single turn, but she'll be keeping a whole bunch of enemies busy one way or another. If the DM is generous with...

4e doesn't have much to say about Rajaat and the early history of all the champions, so it can be up to the DM. I personally didn't care much for all the detailed Rajaat/pyreen/halfling shenanigans, but YMMV. But in the novels, Sacha and Wyan were beheaded by Borys (now the Dragon) for...