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It provides cover against ranged attacks and people behind arrowslits with bows or crossbows can shoot up people coming towards them with alchemical items and probably stop them from getting into a position to throw them through. So it makes your archers much harder to take out than they would...

Really that's something that should be done in all programming. It's been a long time architecture idea that you have 3 layers presentation business objects raw data interface so that you isolate where things need to change you limit the areas where they need to change and you can have multiple...

a) That's aerodynamics rather than logic b) from wikipedia "It is believed that the calculations which purported to show that bumblebees cannot fly are based upon a simplified linear treatment of oscillating aerofoils. The method assumes small amplitude oscillations without flow separation. This...

I believe that's a reflection of the new rarity rules for magic items in the essentials books. I see how obtaining magic items work as being hugely campaign dependent. It certainly can cause a huge imbalance in power between a power gamer and a casual gamer which can be avoided by the GM...

The reasoning is that the RPGA stuff is not put through the normal developement process and they think it's likely that it will have some broken stuff in it at times (I think there have been a few pointed out previously) What would make sense to me would be to have it available as an option and...

IMO the changes they made in the last release (choosing a Human's racial feature for example) suggests that they aren't going to be going to a web-only model. Having a web option as well would be nice but I like having my character on my computer.

Hybrids were introduced in PHB3. Basically they're a different approach from 4th ed multiclassing to let you pick up abilities from two classes. A hybrid character starts by picking 2 classes and they get some of the abilities of each of the two classes (and can pick up one or some of the class...

You appear to be misunderstanding a few things a) Pressing attack means that you move 4 squares before you attack normally, as a wildblood it's 4 squares + your wisdom modifier squares. If you have +3 wisdom modifier (as you write above) that's 7 squares you move, not 9. b) as a Warden you do...

by the book immobilized only means that it can't move to another square using normal movement. It can hit you fine.

If the dragon uses its breath weapon when you have it marked and does not include you in the attack you can use Warden's Fury on it however a) you have to be in the range of your melee weapon to hit it, if you aren't in range of the dragon's attack it probably isn't in your range b) the attack...

Essentials and core are compatable, it's just that chosing some combinations of things might not be a good idea.

You're going to have some problems if you want to switch weapons commonly. a) you'll need 2 melee weapons and a bow or crossbow at a minimum and if you want to switch to other weapons you'll need even more. That's a lot of magic weapons to be carrying. b) you need a lot of feats to keep all the...

Generally +3 to hit is better than the extra damage but it varies a bit depending on the situation. Long term for a character the static bonuses to damage are a bigger factor than the damage dice so the extra to hit works out better. Saying that either weapon is quite playable and both have...

Crossbows use dex to hit, javelins use str to hit. Crossbows have 15/30 range, javelins 10/20 range. A warden will probably start with +6 to hit with a javelin and +2 with a crossbow and the gap will grow. Also a crossbow needs 2 hands to fire, a javelin 1 to throw so it's much more convenient...

Mounted Combat can be great given the right mount. Get on a Nightmare with a Nightmare's Saddle and you've got at will teleport 10... Most of my party goes mounted and it's convenient. (2 nightmares, 1 wyvern, 1 celestial charger iirc)

The Dark Sun information will be in the Compendium so people can check new races etc. It'd get painful if people wanted to use a new class build but generally you should be able to get pretty close in the character build and modify things by hand on the sheet. (Build the stats as they would end...

A polearm fighter can make it so that to attack anyone but you they need to move, take an attack of opportunity and commonly end up prone...

Nah, you throw the gnome into the room to see if there's anything lurking.

You really might want to run the numbers. Unarmored Agility gives you the same AC in cloth as you'd get in leather, hafted defence is the same effect as a light shield. Unarmored Agility is basically a way of letting cloth wearers stay in cloth instead of upgrading to leather and does no more...

A wizard does pretty reasonably for AC. Int modifies AC so you'll normally have +4 or +5 straight up and most wizards will eventually take either leather armour proficiency or the feat mentioned above (+2 to AC with no armour) Also staff wizards have a few options.