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I've implemented a somewhat simpler houserule with the same goal. I've done away with xp, and characters gain a new level after a certain number of milestones, say 7. Milestones are gained after every encounter except the first one after an extended rest. Players seem to push on of their own will.

Also, staggering weapons. Bunch 'em up and slow 'em.

Multi-target control is where it's at. You can burn encounters, dailies, APs and consumables to do single target damage. Plus, teammates. Let them shine too.

I've been wanting to put up a poll to see which rituals most posters consider the best ones for each level. I started putting together one of those google docs spreadsheet forms for it, since this is beyond Enworld forum polls. I got lazy and it's still half done. I'll see if I can get it...

The main benefit of stacking advantage is the increased odds of rolling a crit. Each extra d20 raises the average by substantially less and less, but the odds of rolling a 20 increase by almost 5% with each extra die. This is a fantastic design element. Every advantage grants a benefit, but...

The fluff too, but sliding the target one square is a small amount of control that can be very useful for avengers, since they rely a lot on position. You may want to RP the weapon as his special elven sword even without the proficiency, and then play off the proficiency investment as the...

Looks fine. You probably should look into taking improved defenses and an expertise feat before hitting paragon, but no hurry. It's pretty difficult to break 4e characters, unless you go hybrid. One other suggestion: retrain your multiclass to monk instead of rogue at some point, when some...

Divine Spheres of influence. For example, I think the Raven Queen has dominion over the sphere of Death. Renaming the sphere of Destruction, for example, to Expediency makes it much less "evil" and more of a reasonable thing.

Can't xp either of you. Dammit.

I don't really know. There's too much Forgotten Realms stuff for me to really follow it closely, so when my DM said she had died I thought it would be perfect to make her the deva's former boss. So maybe she's not dead in the official history, although my DM didn't preface the fact with "in my...

I, for one, agree that it is a loophole but do not consider its exploitation game-breaking or bad. My philosophy is that if you stand by the rules, you fall by the rules. Otherwise, you better be prepared to houserule a large chunk of the game to make all the "bad" choices in the game good...

Two such EDs. First, I had a deva shaman who was the former angel of the dead Sune, in Forgotten Realms. Her main motivation was to gather up allies and resources to avenge her mistress' death. The Dead God Avatar has the perfect fluff. But the crunch fell short in a few ways. Mainly, the main...

This. End hunger and disease. Build a benevolent and tyrannical city-state. Watch the arts and civilized races fluorish, and the dawn of a new golden age, shortly before the dying sun swallows it all.

Yes, we agree on that. The post of mine that you quoted was addressing the objective of that rule (or at least trying to), and one possible simplification in that game design area.

Wine and wenches? (looks awkwardly at the ascetic thri-keen monk...)

My houserule has been:

There's a simpler fix for some of these issues. I'm told the designers forbid immediate and opportunity actions on the character's own turn to avoid characters triggering them during their own turns. As things are, the only way I see that to actually happen is via dominating powers, which...

Some of this issue might be well solved by some kind of nifty condition tracking method. Currently, I track effects on the initiative board by adding either an (s) or the initiative count at the end of which they end (so beginning of a turn would have the initiative count immediately before it)...

I've thought of this, and personally come down on the side that it's more accounting than it's worth. But it is a good idea.

Save ends makes imposed effects less reliable. For example If an enemy can't make OAs, I will probably only get that advantage until that enemy's turn. In other words, I can't move my PC, daze the enemy (or other effect), and then count on moving my PC past him safely on my next turn. I do...