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No matter what you do you will NEVER be all three roles at once. If you are not a striker then strikers will do more damage than you. If you are not a defender (or a heavy armor wearer that spends lots of feats) you won't have the highest AC. If you aren't a Leader you can't heal. The best...

Here is an option using a full Cleric build, but it doesn't get to full power until about Paragon (level 11) You have two choices about what is more important to you along the build path. If you want to be more like a defender then stick with the feats I picked below (Light/Heavy shield). At...

Alignment is like a crutch. When you don't know what your character would do in a certain circumstance you fall back to "What's my alignment?" The fact of the matter is that any given person is more complicated than that. We all have beliefs, agendas, priorities, friends, morals and many...

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Guess the question to the OP is does he want to make a Rogue or a Ranger. Effective Halfling Rangers can be built now with a Short Bow: ====== Created Using Wizards of the Coast D&D Character Builder ====== level 1 Halfling, Ranger Fighting Style: Archer Fighting Style Ranger: Running Attack...

I wouldn't allow this to happen in my game because I wouldn't allow the weapon switching. You missed with the shuriken proccing whatever. That attack must now be taken with whatever is already in your hands. Oh...you're holding that bow 1-handed to use the shuriken?...then you can't use it to...

Find anyone who dislikes 4e and I'll bet they say that Gary's comments were one edition too soon.

This. I had a several hour long conversation with a friend a few months ago (and he doesn't care for 4e much). He commented that he didn't like level based systems at all (or D&D in general because it's level based) and it made me realize something. If characters of equal level are not...

A corner case to be sure, but I'm going to go with no. Since at first level you only have one encounter and one daily and that doesn't break Hybrids I'd say the same applies here. I think the limitation is you can't take a second ability from the other class until you have one of each. Since...

Can you share how it's done?

As long as I'm suggesting to change the base number we may as well go for the whole thing and do 13 + stats. Why? It would open up new design space by having NAD's high enough that implements could have proficiency bonuses and all attacks/defenses would be right around the same numbers. AC...

I think they could have done away with class bonuses to defenses as the stat array gives a pretty good variance by itself. If they had done 11 + stat it would help to shave the rough edge off the large variation. For example I made a 1st level Halfling Rogue that wound up with these final...

This seems more like an unintended bug than a feature.

Yes. The limitation is specifically that you can only have one MAGIC item in the slot so: Magic gloves and Non-magic shield OR Non-magic gloves and Magic shield

All I'm really trying to get at is that a 35% swing is huge in a d20 game. I would be perfectly fine with a 7 point range at first level IF their NAD defense scaling was perfect such that a 10 defense at level 1 is a 39 defense at level 30 (+1/level). You start at the bottom of a 7 point range...

There are only so many results you can get on a single d20. If you view them as a baseline plus or minus some value like x +/- 10 then you see that you really only get half of the d20 as a max possible variance range. In my game I am starting to look at character defenses and to hit and if I...

Another option might be: Eladrin Fey Step (at-will) Teleport 3 squares. It doesn't have to be an attack type power, but just something to give races just a little more difference and flavor. If you are sacrificing a class at-will to get it, then it should be an attack of some kind.

This is very true. A change like this to an existing game element can suddenly break a lot of things. I was more trying to focus on the concept and picked something that seemed like it fit well for an example.

Note the differences between all these examples. I'm not so sure on this. Seems like you did this from memory so I'd want a specific example. See my other examples below. In the case of Magic Missile I would say yes. It IS a ranged basic attack and would get the benefits of Bracers of the...

Is there some sort of rumor about this? Link?