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    How do Good Infernal Pact Warlocks work?

    Ever seen ghostrider? There's always the deal with the devil you make for all the best reasons ... The fiddle of gold, where you trick or win your powers from the devil, without being bound to serve him. Also see many russian and slavic folktales where the devil can be outsmarted. There's...
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    D&D 4E Is it just me, or do damaging effects suck in 4E?

    Or, if you want damage ... Two Closing Spells. 16d10+2int. Burst 5. Kaboom.
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    How do wandering merchants survive?

    I think it's worth noting that not alot of items will likely be /bought/ from merchants. Sold to? Absolutely. But given the treasure tables, and the way cash seems to be doled out, I'd expect /buying/ magic items to be fairly infrequent. Remember, there's no XP cost to make magic items...
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    D&D 4E Firearms for the 4E Game (Contributions Welcome)

    How reliable/quick etc do you want them to be, in your games? I'm going for a three musketeers/phoenix guards/PotC feel for mine, so they'll just be encounter power 'magic items'. I like the initial exchange of fire, but for things to be decided by swords. YMMV, of course.
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    GameSpy Reviews D&D Insider

    Alternatively, Summoner/NEcromancer/etc might be a distinct role. I'm not sure how either of those would fit into one of the current role boxes.
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    The new multiclassing: comboclassing

    You've also neglected paragon path multiclassing (though to be fair, there isn't info on it, yet). It's a bit early to be declaring that multiclassing is dead, though. Especially before you have any idea what the rest of the paragon paths, rules, avaliable powers, and so forth entail.
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    Excerpt: Multiclassing (merged)

    Mmm. I suppose we're all just whistling in the dark, here. In 3.X, I don't think you'd get any arguments that this ability would be worth a feat. Just look at all the CO builds that used the 'extra power known' feat from the XPH or the number of people who picked domains entirely for a single...
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    Excerpt: Multiclassing (merged)

    It is if it's shapechange. :D The ability to maintain a high end level appropriate ability from outside of your normal class and role is worth a feat, IMO. We've seen it stated before, that classes are balanced against classes. If powers were all the same, we'd not have as many classes as...
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    Excerpt: Multiclassing (merged)

    I'll concur with that.
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    Excerpt: Multiclassing (merged)

    Not at all. Because losing three levels in your primary spellcasting class was horrid. Losing one power really doesn't compare to how /bad/ that was. This is more like the anima mage, really. No spellcasting levels lost, feat buy in for extra abilities. (I think it was the anima mage. The...
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    Excerpt: Multiclassing (merged)

    The breaks are in the wrong place on that list. Those levels are the /pre-reqs/. The text states that as you go up in level, the power can change. This means you can, with your encounter feat, eventually have a wizard 30 encounter power (if there is one). I'd say that's worth a feat.
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    Multiclassing.

    So what's the problem if my rogue with cleric multiclass feats gains a level and switches out some cleric 'spellcasting' for turn undead? You've had 3 and a half editions of justifying 'my god has given me different miracles today than yesterday'. Or did I completely misunderstand the post...
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    Excerpt: Multiclassing (merged)

    You're trading power for /flexibility/ IMO. Rogues don't get Aoe damage, normally. it's not their deal. They're single target DPS, to use MMO terminology. Spending a feat or two to get the ability to lay down level equivalent wizard-Aoe goodness is what you're buying. You're paying for the...
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    Multiclassing.

    I just don't really see this as a huge deal. But rhen, I don't see why turn undead doesn't work for you as a spell. "I used to pray to Pelor for blessings in battle. But after the wight ate my grandma, I've realized the error of my ways. My prayers now scourge the undead, and I hunt them...
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    Multiclassing.

    I'm going to assume that you worked with a group that allowed monk or paladin multiclassing, since otherwise your statement doesn't make sense. But even if we leave that out of the 3.5's 'worthwhile' multiclassing, there are still quite a few things that 3.5 made difficult to do with...
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    Multiclassing.

    Well. 3.X isn't much better. You can't really multiclass well (not the sense of anything that has to do with spellcasting, at the very least) without a PrC. Not many of those avaliable before 6th level. The system as it stands doesn't work well at low levels. UA's 'multiclassing at first...
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    Multiclassing.

    Simple. Take the ranger feat and then go into the ranger paragon path we've seen previewed. Instant TWF mojo. Or replace your paragon path with access to ranger abilities, like we already knew was possible. Or use the feats to pick up an at will TWF ranger attack. Or, or, or. You can do...
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    Tier-crossing quests

    One of my buddies is actually running with this as a plot point, similar to the old ELH and their various suggestions for how to 'break' the epic barrier. In his world, when the disaster came, all the paragon and epic heroes and villains both, subsided, most killed, but a few slumbering...
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    The Origin of a PoL setting

    I've goven a slight bit of thought to Dragonborn as Clansmen, evacuated from the known world by the last of the dragons, a dying breed, who was an ancient silver also known, in human form as Kerensky. And now coming back ... Whaaaaat? In all seriousness, though, call them whatever you...
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    The Origin of a PoL setting

    If dragons in your world are social, then they make a great example. The local dragon might care if a little kingdom is expanding, but that's probably it. Once you start throwing around the kind of power some of the fallen empires have, then the parliment/council/whatever of dragons gets...
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