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Good to see you haven't really messed around with Hybrids yet. As much as folks are saying there are no 'broken' classes in 4e, it is much, much easier to gimp yourself if you make a hybrid. My mistake was thinking that I *needed* it to make the concept, when really I didn't. Good hybrids...

It's not the Rogues and Religion that mix, it is the Daggermaster PP and Avenger Oath that mix. For the record, even in 3.5 I *loved* the idea of a church sanctioned rogue, and one guy in our group played a Rich Berlew created Rogue variant-thing (on the OOTS website at the time, maybe still)...

Maybe jumping on this guy for excessive cheese is unwarranted. After all, WotC has published a handful of crit range increasing PP's and this is just the tip of the iceberg as far as cheese goes. My Urgosh wielding Fighter got a pretty hard nerf, and I didn't feel he was overpowered at all...

A better question would be: Why *wouldn't* this be legal? Things like this happen pretty rarely, even 1/100 is probably once a level, depending on the things you fight. Just last session our Archer Ranger rolled 2 20's on Twin Strike. I posted a photo (taken with a cruddy cell phone) on my...

lol, 2009 called, and it wants it's thread back. Or, your magic hammer detonates and shards pierce the enemies in a burst. Or, time slows, and you throw in a blur, and an outsider would *swear* he saw two or three hammers at once. Or the enemy you hit first slips and pokes the guy next to...

Elan seem like they could work like the Revenant worked, where you could have the base class and options for whatever your past life was. Adding my voice to the chorus of those who liked the flavor of the Elan is like a drop in the bucket now, but I'll still add it. Sure you can make Elan with...

I prefer rolling combat in the open, since players are gonna figure out approximate AC's and to hits eventually anyways, but skill checks and other non-combat interactions can be much more tense if checks are hidden, or if the DM rolls them for you. Jay

I like the build. As Destil said, you aren't going to win a damage done competition, but you will be a superb Defender nonetheless. Going with Double Sword will net you the +1 Defensive bonus and allow you to focus on only one enchantment, but double weapons are wonky when it comes to...

After playing the one-on-one adventure from DDI with my daughter again, I am considering going at one on my own. I would probably dumb down a lot of things, and try and run it more like Chatty DM's RP sessions with his son, Nico. I know my daughter had already memorized part of the encounter...

Not true, really. Avengers Censure has a way of convincing enemies to do something other than the optimal. Just like the Assault Swordmage in my group's mark gives enemies a lose/lose choice. Defenders all have a little Controller in them, in that they really have an impact on the flow of the...

You didn't think he was? Isn't saying 4e is a minis game or not D&D usually treated as such? If I'm the only one that saw it, I apologize. I don't mean to overreact. Jay

Yeah. . .this is some awesome advice folks, I appreciate it, and future googlers appreciate it (hopefully). I am hoping to remain edition neutral right now, so that does kind of put me in a bind with the issue of Gods. I do want to try having a strong central religion, possibly having even the...

What does this have to do with the topic. . .and why does it contain all the Edition Warring buzzwords? We aren't even talking about 3e or 4e or any 'e'. I guess you could be saying that you don't think the playtest (and thus an open beta) worked or would work, but you said it in a pretty...

Tempest Fighters rock, they can mark two guys at once, at will (with Dual Strike). I took that idea and ran with it, making a fighter that took as many multi-attack powers as he could, marking as many guys as he could, and punishing the crap out of them for violating it. So the Tempest...

Divine Metamagic is really great for buffing. I'll second that. I played Human just so I could take that Extra Turning one more time. Very useful. Jay

eXpanded Psionic Handbook (I think) from 3.5, and I probably meant PHB4 when I was typing PHB3. Probably. Jay

Wow, well. . .Fighter is probably one of the favored classes of 4e so far. Your opinions are *yours* though, and nobody should try and tell you they are wrong. Some of us may have differing ones, but . . .well, let me just give you mine, based on play experience: Warden: Good defender in a...

Hey, I liked Elan. Too bad the precedent has been to not release races in Power books, they would fit well in a Psionic Power book. PHB3 will probably focus more on the new power source? Maybe? PHB2 had some pretty all purpose races, PHB3 seems to have a real Psionic bent to it, race wise...

Riiiight, its the half elf+other stuff that is broken. Half Elf Avenger+Dilettente Twin Strike+Versatile Master+Daggers+Daggermaster=Broken to hell Daggervenger. The half elf and maybe the daggers are the least broken things in that equation. The others are borderline. I see no reason why...

I went through this waiting for the Article about the Traveller to be converted to DDI content. There was a thread about it at the time, luckily, where someone explained the whole 2 month/1 month thing that Piratecat pointed out. Knowing that still didn't make February come any sooner. Jay