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It says you lose the action if your target becomes invalid. You lose the action, not the power; if you don't have a standard action any more, you can't have spent a power that requires a standard action. Rule of thumb: If you didn't make the attack roll, you didn't expend the power. If you...

Well, what we were trying to explain is that the +1 will is only bringing this guy up to on-level with other races, not increasing him above it. Most races get two stat bonuses that apply to different defenses. Con and Str both feed into Fortitude, though, so where a half-elf is essentially...

You can use any attack power once you're sustaining a grab; sustaining is only a minor action, so you can do it while also using standard action powers. As far as powers that specifically use grabbing: Garotte Grip - Rogue 15; standard action attack that initiates a grab, or you can use it as...

I'm not saying it isn't based on that, but there's a lot of non-lovecraft examples of "dark speech" causing actual physical effects, including mental damage. Do you recall Lord of the Rings when Gandalf quotes the inscription on the Ring in the original Mordor? The sun seems to fade and a pall...

Crossbow is a totally different thing from what we're talking about. A crossbow doesn't require the arm and chest flexibility that a true bow does, and thus is not inhibited by armor.* It's not archery -- it's a gun. I can't absolutely swear to this, but my understanding is "...but not at the...

Of course, being at range makes AC a lot less important than for a melee fighter... Nnnno, it's still +1 worse, because if you have 26 dex, you can still only apply +6 of it to your AC due to the max dex ceiling that you hit back at Dex 22. You'd need padded armor to do that. Full plate is +1...

Quintuple super duper infinity plus one fail. ::eyeroll:: Fine, but that doesn't indicate in any way that this is a "heavily armored archer" rather than a "heavily armed melee guy" who happens to be using a bow at the moment. If he weren't wearing a sword and shield I could be convinced that...

That's not obvious at all. It's just Occam's Razor -- the simplest explanation is probably correct, assuming all the options explain the phenomenon. Which is more likely? That you're seeing a character who has gone through the contortions necessary to build an armored archer despite the fact...

Forsaken? No. He's just too tired and wounded for that little dribble of divine healing to do him any good. You'll need to use something more substantial, like Cure Light Wounds (2nd level daily utility -- target heals HP equal to his Healing Surge amount without spending a surge).

Sorry, fail. He's clearly wearing a shield on his back and a sword on his hip -- he's a heavily armored sword-and-board fighter who happens to be making an attack with a ranged weapon, not a heavily armored archer.

I preordered mine at the FLGS. I got a discount somewhat smaller than Amazon's, but I'm supporting the shop and I'll get them on release day.

That's true. Women with a big chest almost always have a big booty too. Those that don't are usually fake. (One of my friends says that he's used that method to determine who has implants, and it's like 90% accurate.) Of course fantasy art has never held to that particular truism...

Lizard, you are awesome.

You're misapplying it. Diminishing utility only works when the increasing abundance is not matched by increasing needs. In other words: You would be right that a +1's utility fades as you level up ONLY IF your enemies' defenses remained static. This was somewhat the case in 3rd edition; HP...

Pardon my bookless ignorance, but according to everything I've heard, minions never take damage unless they're hit by an attack roll, no matter the source. Abilities that deal damage on a miss or automatically don't affect minions, as far as I know... but I could be wrong.

Umm... can't you just use a ranger or similar and take armor proficiency feats? Anyway I'm not sure why you'd want to do something like that, since heavy armor and dexterity don't really get along, and never have...

Right, and from a flavor perspective it's just that this material is either inherently magical or it can't exist without powerful magic binding it together. I mean, most of this stuff is like "it's make out of astral matter" or "woven of starlight" or something. It's not just armor made out of...

Yes, and both are FAR more powerful than they used to be. In 3.x they handed out LLV like it was candy. Now only very few creatures have LLV, and Darkvision is nearly unknown except in the most extreme cases. In your race comparison you didn't highlight that, but Drow have the very rare...

Not at all. It doesn't say "If you use this, you're an idiot." It says, "You can use this method if you want, but understand exactly what you're getting into..." It's just fair warning combined wtih the reasoning of why they decided to make and array the standard method. Oh, and fifth (or...

Just draw a star and activate your Healing Touch.