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Uh, doesn't the werewolf curse only take the character out of the player's control on nights with a full moon? It seems the character is otherwise still perfectly normal; the stage 4 effects replace the previous stages so you don't even have the "attack allies when hit" issue. There isn't even...

Didn't we already have this? Not to start edition-warring, but having a lot of optional at-will modifiers hasn't turned out to be a great way of maintaining balance. People figure out the best combo, optimize for it, and spam it. In 4e terms, what you describe is sorta like what high-level...

Whatever you want to call it, I've always thought that there's room for a divine ranged weapon class (likely a striker). I've refluffed Seekers, but the problem there is that Seekers are pretty meh. Ranger/Cleric hybrids, refluffing the ranged implement powers to be "bow" powers works OK, but...

Brawler Fighter. Even if that's not the best class, Brawler Pixies are pretty hilarious mechanically. A tiny little winged princess that can smack dragons in the face and drag them around the battlefield? And the dragon can hardly even break free? Pure awesomesauce.

Absolutely yes, cover has nothing to do with line of sight. Would you allow a huge invisible wall of force to block arrows? Of course you would. Anything that partially blocks line of effect grants cover. It doesn't matter if anyone can see it or not.

I like to use inherent bonuses a lot. When I do, I usually just remove most item enhancement bonuses (but keep the other properties). Occasionally I'll give an item a +1 or +2 that does stack with the inherent bonus. Going much beyond that would seem to put players rather far ahead of the...

Well, this power is from the same article that gave us Sacrifice to Caiphon, Twofold Pact, and Student of Caiphon. It's actually one of my favorite articles; nice fluff/mechanics combination, lots of ideas, and starlocks needed the support. But it also clearly had some abusable stuff where not...

Really? I haven't played a Conlock, but AoA only hits enemies, and it hits them on the start of their turn... I'd think this'd be pretty hard for monsters to avoid. Usually the complaint I hear about it is that it doesn't have the implement keyword and scales like crap. I guess experience...

Well, maybe I'm reading it differently. I figured you don't get the minor action attacks if you miss with the initial hit. And in that case, even if you get to sustain for four rounds, because of the lack of miss damage it doesn't really outdamage Flames of Phlegethos, Armor of Agathys is...

Most of the bizarre "sustain minor, but sustain what exactly?" powers received errata with the recent Warlock update. But Crown of Stars was in Dragon and may have been missed. The power sucks as written, if I were you I'd feel free to fix it up a bit. I'd make the extra stars part of a save...

"Dual Strike" is a fighter at-will, I presume you mean "Twin Strike", in which case, yeah, for ranged attacks with that power use DEX, for melee attacks with that power use STR. Just as the power says. As for "Throw and Stab", it requires you to "wield both a melee weapon and a thrown weapon"...

And smoothed out the armor bonus increase for heavy armor, so it's not just a sudden +3/+6 at level 16 and 26 anymore.

I'd probably take Master at Arms instead of TWF, and Duelist's Assault or Battle Wrath instead of Unfettered Fury. This guy is using a crappy weapon, you don't want to gimp his attack bonus. I'd at least think about buying a nat 18 in Dex as well (and dump Str to 8). If you're going to go the...

I haven't played many E-classes, but I think the most fun so far for me has been the Blackguard. Defender durability + striker damage, and rewards some tactics with more damage without being super fiddly.

The question is: does the demon know he's getting attacked by fire after the wizard launches the fireball but before it strikes? My interpretation is no, nobody can act in the middle of somebody else's action unless such a thing is specifically triggered. The rules aren't quite explicit on...

It sounds like there are multiple levels of "broken" or "problematic" under discussion. There are a number of possible questions. 1: Are multi-attacks breaking the game overall? It seems that for many people the answer is "not really, they're in fact somewhat necessary given new monster...

This, and it can be useful even without a good MBA. Eyebite can allow you to plant yourself in front of artillery such that it has an effective -5 to attack you (because of the invis) and an effective -2 to attack any of your allies (because you're blocking the monster's LoE and granting cover...

The endless canteen makes 600 pints in an hour (the water is said to disappear if not consumed by then). That's 75 gallons every hour (about 2.4 US beer barrels, according to Google). It's enough to keep a small army (a few hundred soldiers) alive in an otherwise lethal desert environment...

Actually, I think the real confusion arises because the new style of writing summoning powers seems to be to spell out all the details in the creature entry as if no general summoning rules existed. If you read things that way then everything seems to work as intended. But from an absolute...

Shadow skeleton doesn't look especially weak compared to other summons (actually the OA is pretty good), but I think part of the issue is that several of the buffs to improve summons are feats/features specific to the Tome of Binding Arcanist Wizard. It might be tricky to make a really great...