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A few things pulled from Rich Bakers answers on the FR gleemax thread :1: Answering a question about whether some PP's will be open to more than one class (here) : :2: Here he suggests Swordmage's primary stats will be INT and STR (not surprising). :3: Here he talks about deity-specific...

On his WotC blog Mike Mearls is describing his campaign, and has a few instances of skill challenges. :1: Used a (unannounced) skill challenge to model the readiness of guards at a tower. More failures lead to the guards sending out patrols. :2: Another (unannounced) skill challenge for...

Incorrect. We know that there is a "deeper" form of multiclassing in lieu of picking a paragon path. We don't know many details, but it seems highly likely that whenever you would have gotten a PP feature, you'll pick up another feature from your MC class. Also, there was a designer blog post...

a) We've seen a tiny fraction of the powers, the feats, the combat rules, etc. We can may some extrapolations from that, but to state definitely that X can't be done in 4E, or that only Y can do something seems a bit premature. I think its quite likely that basic maneuvers like grappling and...

I agree that there are some underlying design principles that WotC must be using - though whether its exactly a point system like this I'm not sure. But, it might be a decent approximation. One thing you might consider is whether the point cost ought to be the same between classes. In another...

So in Rodney Thompson's new blog post he talks about his wizard who multiclassed into fighter (apparently using some things from the martial power sourcebook). So (a) it seems that MCing from wizard into fighter could be useful, and (b) this seems to suggest that future sourcebooks might...

If the main goal of the fighter-ness is to use a greatsword with sneak attack - given that we expect you'll get that through feats you may not need to spend feats MCing into fighter. Since attack bonus is common across classes a straight brutal scoundrel rogue is going to fight well and hit...

My guess is the easiest way to separate product lines is by the Proprietary Content that the OGL (and presumably the GSL) lets you carve out. If two products share the same PI, then perhaps they'll be considered part of the "same" product line. E.g. Ptolus is PI, so if two products both use...

If you are an arcane controller you will have lots of powers that are AoE damage (often with an extra penalty to the targets) that attacks Ref/Will/Fort. If you go into a martial striker, you'll be picking up powers that are focused damage, and may come with something like imposing penalties or...

OK, so I went through the PrRC and counted up how many powers each class had that attacked a particular defense. This is a rough estimate since we have more powers for some classes then others. Class [Power / Role] - AC / Reflex / Will / Fort Wizard [Arcane / Controller] - 0 / 9 / 5 / 3...

I like to cook, but its not my main profession. I don't have the breadth of skills of a professional chef. If you wanted me to make a 10 course dinner for 300, I'll be no where near as good as a trained chef. But I've got a few recipes that I make a lot, that I've practiced at, and that are...

Well, you can do both. In the megathread I made some assumptions about how paragon MCing would parallel the structure of Paragon Paths. If you both heroic feat MC and paragon MC, then from 1-10 you're typically 66/33, and then from 11-20 you're typically 55/45. This counts only E/D/U powers...

I'm actually not so sure that bonus-stacking (e.g. Tenser's Transformation) will be the main kinds of effects you'll trade powers for. From what we know, 4E has changed how buffs work. Powers are only going to provide 1-round bonuses it seems, and every class seems to have a similar smattering...

gazebos? :)

Since you can replace powers, I'm guessing "Ability Y" will be a class feature, rather than a power. If it required a power, then you'd be stuck having to either keep a below-level power or you would stop being eligible for the PP.

Agreed. The only ones who (might) need to be that multi-talented would be villains, and they can be created as widely powered as you want with npc/monster creation rules.

I wouldn't be surprised if there were a mix of PP's :1: PP's only appropriate for the required class taken as the base class :2: PP's that work well for the required class as base, or another class that multi-classes into the required class :3: PP's that are open to two (or more) classes -...

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I don't want to argue that trading away any power, or even most powers, would make sense. What I want to argue is that (a) some powers/effects are situational in their usefulness, and (b) since classes fit a role, classes tend to give you multiple powers that generate similar effects...

OK, "strictly" might be too strong, but "very often" might be accurate. I think the other reason why getting one use of a situational effect is more important in 4E than 3E is because you can get a highest-level use of the effect relatively easily. In 3E having a bunch of 10th level characters...