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Yep. Strength-din is more striker-like. Having L1 & L5 dailies which do 4W damages, and having a striker At-Will (Holy Strike), it is often even much striker than some strikers such as barbarian. And Str/Wis build work very well with either Avenger or Fighter multiclass feats. For defender...

No, I definitely say updating 3.0e into 3.5e was never easier. A lot of things and rules were completely different and there was no equivalents in two editions. And monster design in those two versions were far much different, comparing to the differences between 4e MM1 monsters and newer...

Do you really know how different monsters such as demons and devils in 3.0e and 3.5e were? They are completely different. Comparing to those differences, the changes made in monster vault is MINIMAL. No, replacing monsters in 3.0e into the 3.5e equivalent didn't work well in many cases. First...

3.0e/3.5e change were far much serious. Spaces of creatures changed. While 3.0e combat rule was not using squares by default (though many were using grids), 3.5e combat rule was based on squares. There are many spells, feats, classes and such which were eliminated and dramatically changed when...

# Compatibility If you consider PHB2/3 or Power books to be compatible with PHB, then, Essentials are at least equally compatible with PHB. I say two Heroes books are compatible with previous books, more so than PHB2/3 were compatible to older books when they were released. In fact, those two...

Just for curiosity, is that rule actually shown already?

Do you want to play in the world of L5R or do you want to run an oriental-tasted campaign (or introduce some oriental-tasted materials) with D&D 4e? If the former, I guess the suggestions from the others will be right. Play a game which is tailored for L5R. If the latter, ignore L5R and just...

Two feats, Primal Sharpshooter +Primal Eye for adding Dex damage one more time to your damage will be definitely strong I guess. In regard to take Versatile Master + Biting Swarm, I say it can be interesting but not that strong. If you are to use the above combo, you should better simply...

Nothing prevent Essentials PCs from taking feats for gaining rituals. On the other hand, even before Essentials, not all the pre-essentials parties have Enchant Magic Item ritual available. So this is not a new issue. As a DM, you can always let appear some NPC who can use that. As a player, if...

1) No. When you makes a charge attack, the target is not yet granting combat advantage to you. It may grant combat advantage as a result of the charge attack. 2) As the answer for 1) is no, it is irrelevant.

Thank you guys for clarifying the rule. I will take the power for the next game.

Warlord Attack Power 4, in Martial Power 2. Yep. Not just this power, but Warlord + Essentials Striker Ally = Very Powerful.

This power's effect says, Say, when this effect is working, my warlord hit a target with Paint the Bulls-Eye power. Shall an ally makes a melee basic attack before the damage and benefit of Paint the Bulls-Eye is applied? Or can an ally make a basic attack after Paint the Bulls-Eye's hit line...

IIRC many designers and writers in WotC (or working for WotC) have indeed recommended to roll attack roll and damage roll simultaneously, to make the game faster. But that is irrelevant to this issue. Normal damage dice (either [W]s or XdXs defined by powers) are maximized anyway. So, after...

As a conclusion, I have decided to run the Encounter as it is and let one player play a companion character. It seems that when using Dungeon Delve, it seems to be the easiest option. Thank you all for giving me suggestions.

From official PHB FAQ, emphasis added by me, Sneak attack dice and other extra damage dice are which "you would normally roll to calculate damage", not something caused to roll when scoring a critical hit.

That's it! Thanks! Hmm. I have to spread more XP first before giving you.

The "Effect" of the "Opportunity Attack" power is "You make a melee basic attack against the target."

The answer is "No". There are many opportunity actions. Opportunity Attack is just one of them, though the most popular one. Also, if you have Heroes of the Fallen Lands, read P.27 of that book. Now Opportunity Attack itself is defined as an attack power itself, which has specific trigger...

Can magic weapon such as Distance, which says "Weapon: Any ranged", be applied to a light/heavy thrown weapons which is classified as a melee weapon? I am afraid not. But not sure. Are there any clear official clarification for it?