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While Initiative is important to everyone, in many circumstances is less important to the Warlord. Often you will need to have your allies get adjacent to you are the enemy to use a power, or want to wait and see how the positioning plays out. Since a tactical warlord already has reflex and AC...

If time management is your biggest imediment to learning the rules, I think that for core concepts that have obvious, black and white answers, you would have faster results first consulting the index of the Player's Handbook. It isn't all that well indexed so the Table of Contents would be the...

I would say you cannot retrain it. Page 28 of the PH says “You can’t replace a power that’s a class feature.” Under the Warlock entry: Eldtrich Pact: At-Will Spells it says. “Your pact determines one of the at will spells you know.” Therefore, your at-will is a consequence of Eldtrich Pact and...

Agreed. And since there is no facing, there really isn't any such things as backwards or forwards either. If we are looking for a specific rule, the section in the PH on movement says that you can move a number of squares equal to your speed as a move action. There is no provision for...

Just to be clear, he does not get an extra attack because he uses the axe whether or not he has the feat. Certain classes may have specific powers that, when using those powers only, allow them an extra attack. If he is using a barbarian power* or a basic attack he does not get an extra attack...

On the other hand, it steps on the player's ability to play tactically. Bullrushing and otherwise force-moving goblins into diifficult terrain to stop the shiftiness it part of the fun of fighting them.

It is the same physical building as the occult book store but has its own door and space on the western part of the building, just off the SW corner of Broadway and Bryn Mawr. There isn't a sign yet. I read on their website they are still dealing with permits for the sign. (No one told them in...

This may a bit late but a new store just opened. I noticed it walking from the train and saw your thread while searching for its name. (It is a couple blocks from my house so I am excited.) It looks like they are stilling building their inventory. I just stepped in for a minute so I can't speak...

You make an important point. Due either to the vindictivness or cleverness of my DM I have found over-optimized characters to always be sub-optimal because enemy tactics and environmental limitations always interfere with a delicate set-up. In fact, probably my favorite 3e character was the 2e...

As a medic, when we would stop for a rest I would regulary inspect feet, put moleskin on blisters, remove ticks and apply bandages. My Warlord inspects his comrades after every fight. He gives them a pep talk and offers advice and enouragement. This is simulated the additional 1d6 HP everyone...

I haven't seen a rogue in action in 4e yet. Since you are allowed to carry a weapon in each hand and use either, and you can't use a shield anyway, couldn't you just carry a dagger in one hand and a shuriken in the other? And since you have combat advantage against anyone who hasn't acted yet...

Maybe we are a bunch of liberals, but during a short rest I role a single die for my warlord. Whoever wants to applies this to whatever surges they use. Then it is back into the mix.

This is an important point. If the character wants to be a mounted warrior their build (physical and character) should reflect this. If we are to believe civil war sources, that an ideal cavalryman "stood no more than five foot, seven inches, and weighed 125 to 140 pounds" than the player should...

I don't have the Swordsage info handy (where is it anyway?) but remember that a power that targets "allies" does not target you necessarily. For example, the Warlord's Inspiring Word ("you or one ally in a burst") does help you but Inspiring War Cry ("one ally who can hear you") cannot be used...

Can the Arcane Tinker ability be used to heal a Warforged? If so this would capture the synergy of the 3.5 Artificer-Warforged relationship nicely. If not it is arguably a dubious ability. So you suppose that in the final version the Tinker powers will work like cantrips?

The class abilites cannot be ignored. For example, the warlord and cleric at-wills can be useful or not depending on situation. If the defender rolls a 19 your +3 from Furious Smash didn't help; if the enemy hit AC 26 the +1 to AC from Priest's shield was a waste. But you will be healing people...

Do you really want a weightless piece of force with 3' of surface area to be subject to wind effects? It would be useless.

I think you are in a great situation. The PH1 is striker heavy and controller light so it is not unlikely that a DM would face a group of players wanting to play a party heavy in rogues, rangers and warlocks but with no synergy. I would contact the ranger privately and see if he wants to play a...

I would like to see a +3 superior reach weapon that isn't the spiked chain. (My fellow palyers and I have never liked that weapon). Thanks. Now I just have to convince the DM that a Guisarme-Voulge-Glaive-Lochaber Axe-Lucern Hammer (+3 1-10 reach) exists.

The target of Lay on Hands is "one creature." Presumably the Paladin himself is "one creature." I don't see the need for errata. Some Warlord abilities affect one or more "allies." The seems to expressly leave out the Warlord as a beneficiary of the effect.