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Involuntary push/pull/slides do break physical immobilization, including grab. They move the person in spite of mental immobilization, but the immobilized condition remains. A push/pull/slide flavored as a charm is interesting, though, especially since you could use it to command an...

No. The power that lets you hit a shifting enemy involves an immediate interrupt, not an opportunity attack. Someone who tries to move and gets smacked with your OA can't keep moving (if he's your marked target), but someone who shifts away and takes the Combat Challenge attack is not so...

Saric, great job! I notice, though, that your bard offers multiple powers that inflict the "restrained" condition. Now, I prefer "restrained" to "immobilized" in most cases myself, but there aren't many other powers that inflict it. Even grappling/grabbing doesn't any more. Just thought that...

Currently, the Rogue and Ranger especially have some Utility powers that are aimed more at making them expert skill-users than at combat functionality. The Paladin also has a couple Utility prayers (Astral Speech, especially, and the telepathy one to a degree) that allow for fitting, flavorful...

Either way should work, as long as you don't accidentally combine the two. The initial example of the rogue who sneak attacks as an OA before his turn, then does it again on his own turn, works if "round" is defined as starting with one's own turn -- but only if the rogue did not use sneak...

4e does provide human statblocks (and an entire human PC-creation system) as well as the werewolf hybrid statblock. I believe the wolf may be one of the few normal animals with a statblock, too; if not, it's not unreasonable to use dire wolf or worg stats for a wolf-form werewolf. Of course...

Resist and Vulnerability, specifically, do not stack but overlap (you use the highest value). The same is true of temporary hit points (which are kind of like an ablative Resist All). Deadstop

There may well also be a "minion template," or at least a procedure for turning a non-minion statblock into a minion one, even if it's not classed as a template. We know of such a procedure for turning a non-elite monster elite, for example. That aside, though ... okay, you could take the...

Ah, forgive me then. I took your earlier post as suggesting that all the merchants were supposed to be was magic item speculators, who had no reason to be risking themselves for profit unless there happened to be loot-heavy adventurers at their destination. As for PoL, I like it myself and I...

This is one of the first things about 4e I've found largely disappointing, though as often happens the complaints so far in the thread have been extreme enough to lead me to develop some sympathy for WotC's system. As others have mentioned, the treasure parcel system (while it is no doubt...

Arguments about the unbelievability of the minion rules seem to rest on the notion that various particular individuals in the game world "are minions," and noticeably so. But that's not what minion status is for. An individual character (PC or NPC) considered as an individual is never a minion...

That actually keeps you knocked prone longer than without the "Save ends," though. You don't roll a saving throw until the end of your next turn, when you could just stand up as a move action on your turn. Deadstop

The feat could even give the same bonus as a trained skill (+5), only in an area of endeavor not covered by a standard "adventuring skill." That would keep the math for such rolls on par with standard skill rolls. Further reflection might reveal something terribly wrong with that notion, but...

Yeah, that surprised (and kinda disappointed) me too. The level curve seems a lot shallower in 4e; both monsters and spells are spread out a lot more, and stuff that used to be relatively low level is pushed higher up on the food chain. Still, with the two weakest orc types being minions, it...

The "duke doesn't take well to intimidation" example seems to be part of the new way they're "statting out" NPCs for use in social challenges like this one. Look back at the "vampire caravanserai" Role vs. Roll article. All the NPCs are described in terms of which social skills work best on...

Power swapping seems to me to make it even easier to create a character who starts at a higher level. Just give him the appropriate feats and choose some powers from the second class in place of powers from the primary class. You don't have to worry about when he theoretically would have taken...

It seems likely that the "origin" types correspond to parts of the 4e cosmology: Aberrant = hailing from the Far Realm Elemental = hailing from the Elemental Chaos (including the Abyss) Fey = hailing from the Feywild Immortal = hailing from a Dominion of the Astral Sea Natural = hailing from...

Aberrant is an origin, though. Ooze is being suggested as a "shape," like humanoid or beast. You could have natural oozes (gray ooze and the like), elemental oozes (the classic "moving lump of stuff" elementals), and even immortal oozes (Juiblex?) in addition to aberrant oozes. Deadstop

According to someone who has played the actual game, in this very thread, NPCs get those too. This one's true. A first-level fighter has the "martial power source" backing him up, whereas a typical first-level guard does not. It's like the 3e "fighter" vs. "warrior," only probably even more...

Where are you getting this? Has anyone but you ever said these things? Yes, in the "default D&D demographics," they are cutting down on the number of people running around with PC classes or the equivalent. That doesn't mean "4e does not allow NPCs to achieve the same things as PCs." What...