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There's a very delicate balance between letting the characters that ought to be able to do cool stuff do it, and keeping everything balanced. IME this is far more significant in supers games, and they require a lot of, um, "correct play" for lack of anything approaching good terminology... The...

I understand why the Kobold will likely never get a true "official" PC-adaptation, but I'm still kind of disappointed. The MM writeup feels like a tease... I think one of the problems with Shifty is that it's pretty situational. Compared to the best of the racial Encounter powers, I don't...

I love Leaders, the idea of the 4e Leader role is just awesome to me. But I hate that Leaders got stuck with healing...

In a way, yes: Rune of Mending (the Runepriest 2x / Encounter spend-a-surge power) also hands out a buff, at the cost of +1d6 healing compared to the Cleric. I'm playing a Bard right now, I can slide the target of my Majestic Word power. There's tons of times when sliding an ally with a minor...

It should work, by my understanding of RAW.

My personal experience is that it's entirely possible to have a good party without a Controller, but not so much for any of the other roles. If you're missing a Leader, Defender, or Striker, you feel it immediately, you can work around it but you have to pretty deliberately do so, and it's much...

I think the real problem is that Versatile Master (and Dilettante in general) ranges from nearly useless to very powerful. Obviously many players are going to try to hit the powerful end of that spectrum, but in many cases that's just not possible. Dilettante is a neat idea, but unfortunately it...

Seriously optimized charge builds try and have a way to repeat the process. But I think that one of the reasons there are so many good bonuses available for charging is that it's supposed to be situational. I haven't seen what I would consider a CharOp-level charging build, but I've seen several...

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A number of classes already gain powers as part of their class features. The question, I think, would be: does this count as one of your normal at-wills (like the Warlock pact at-will) or not? Marauder's Rush, now that Throw & Stab has been nerfed, got me thinking about the spear-based ranger...

Ah, thanx. It's what I get for going to the compendium instead of my books, I was only looking at the at-wills.

Why not? I can totally argue that Twin Strike is not OP. It's the best DPR at-will, which puts it above every other Ranger at-will. But it's definitely not better than other classes' at-wills, IMO. All it does is put out damage. There's tons of other stuff out there that Rangers just don't get...

Throw & Stab + Marauder's Rush was way too obvious of a combo, because they where specifically supposed to compliment one-another. That was to be the basis of the Marauder build, now you have Throw & Stab and something else, and the power named after the build no longer even has a real place in...

Actually, you need the 24th level feature "Godlike Stature". I don't think there is any way to use a larger weapon before 24th level (other than play a Bugbear, of course).

One-Two Punch has Rattling and the Rogue has a bunch of ways to get CA... So if you move between two targets (or they move adjacent to you) it gives you a way to smack both. I agree that getting Sneak damage on both targets can be a bit tricky, but the power has a lot of little, potentially...

S2 White Plume Mountain I know it's a classic, but my (several) experiences with this module where simply absurdly bad. The group I played with simply was not interested in doing the whole "fetch us a shrubbery magic item" thing, especially if it meant trekking way out into the wilderness. If...

While there is a Hybrid playtest article in the same issue of dragon as the White Lotus article that includes the Academy Master, I don't see any connection. Academy Master is open to any arcane class, so your Warlock can take it, Hybrid or not.

The way I look at it, when CharOp says that, the full context is "Expanded Spellbook will not help to optimize your character (in a vacuum, in a hypothetical "typical" 4e game, and for specific result X)." I find CharOp very useful in that if I want to accomplish X with my character, I can find...

This. The Monk can use her weapon (any weapon she is proficient in, for any reason) for MBAs, and as an implement with Monk powers. Implement powers don't get [W], they do fixed damage, and they don't get a proficiency bonus. What's annoying (or at least a bit odd) is that there are no Superior...

Owlbears!