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If a feat is required to fix a class/race weakness then one of two things are true: 1. the class/race is broken and needs to be fixed at the class/race level, not with a feat, or 2. the weakness is there for game balance, flavor, or both and you are a power gamer who wants all the good aspects...

"As I said, I agree that the character sheet is always the first go-to for my players when it comes to looking for resources to deploy ... What I would like, though, is for the ranger with Acrobatics to pay more attention to the vines than he currently does!" The two statements above were...

Improvements have toned down the power - good job. I don't have time to review past level 1 but I will spend at least 1 more post critiquing level 1. Pressure Volt Aura The way this is written, a 1st level GK can mark ALL opponents in burst. Not good. Refer to Warden for how to mark an...

I'm sorry but the power creep in this class is horrendous. I'm not even going to review past level 1 since a level 1 Gatekeeper is bad-ass x3. Pressure Volt Aura: A permanently on slow-type effect with aura 5? At first level, a minor action burst 5 slow that only lasts until the end of next...

Both of my D&D groups allow you to move 1 square at a time (mini-moves). In most cases, the character moves from origin to destination without interruption, so the action appears to occur as a single event. New information based on moving into a specific square is delivered as an immediate...

I like the idea of overlapping but not stacking conditions. Someone suggested adding addition save rolls to remove the condition. A simplification of this plan is: every time a specific effect is overlapped, the condition gains "duration: +1 round". Example: Larry slows Foe (save ends). Moe...

Neither I nor the rest of my D&D group (I surveyed them) would pay 1 surge worth of HP for a base 45% chance to fail the save and do nothing. We WOULD pay that amount to remove the stun permanently. My group agreed that simple is best. Dazed + weakened or dazed + blinded were their favorites.

First off, I'd like to say that I own an expensive set of knives and they are SOOOO worth the cost over cheap knives. ;) Moving on. Don't think of the cost of magic items as actual "gold". Think of it as the gold equivalent in residuum to create that item. Magic items aren't mass produced by...

Crazy Jerome, Your above solution does include all possibilities. Instead of standing up or being dazed, I end up 1 square away because an interrupt causes me or the target to shift 1 after the move but before the attack. One of my characters had this very thing as a utility power. Granted, I...

I agree with FireLance. Fleche, as defined above, is less effective than either a standard attack while adjacent or a charge when at least 2 squares away. This is not power creep, this is closing a loophole. And why do you say that it's okay for the monsters to get the advantage? Monsters can...

D'oh, you are correct. Who WOULDN'T pay the hit points to unstun for a turn. To remove stun completely with a surge worth of HP would also be a no-brainer unless you were lacking in HP, surges, and heals. Similar, just more expensive. If it became so expensive that you couldn't do it over half...

While I lay in bed, another concern came to me with regards to that abjurer ward. I'm picturing a wiz with the ward on himself (invincible ward), the party is adjacent (so they are all protected by the ward), and the ward is neutralizing (almost for free) the enemy aura that should be having an...

I think it might break things or be unfair to completely remove a condition by spending hit points rather than using the proper saving throws. Defenders have a great advantage while controllers suffer. It seems better to allow characters to spend hit points to decrease the effect to a daze. 1...

Thank you for sharing the defender wizard. It looks like you put some work into creating it. Have you tried it in actual play? If so, how did it do? Was it balanced? Did it protect the people who needed protecting e.g. did you prevent foes from dealing significant damage to undesirable targets...

Yes, we started with "can't attack" but then moved to "can't attack good enough." That is because our defenders (for the most part, but other melee, too) were being punished for being an arbitrary 1 square away from a foe. If I can do an at-will attack from adjacent and a charge from 2 squares...

I want to comment on the suggestion that if the combats are not dangerous enough for the players then keep upping the monster levels. I vote that idea out. Yes, you can go Level+3 more often than stated in the book, but Level+5? I suggest not. Higher level monsters have higher level defenses...

Encounters are more fun when they are preplanned. The monsters are hand selected; the terrain is designed to match monster tactics and new challenges for the players; treasure is pre-placed, etc. Forcing the DM to continually develop ad-hoc attacks on over-rested parties leads creates the...

Picture a fighter, paladin, warden, etc. with melee 1 weapon and shield (a common occurrence). Most effective options for one-handed weapons for weapon and shield PCs (sword, spear, mace, etc.) cannot be effectively thrown. To throw a dagger, the PC would have to free action drop the melee 1...

The original suggestion that a daze move the PC down in initiative order is not balanced. At worst, it means that a PC goes after the monsters instead of before and becomes equivalent to missing one's turn (a stun until start of turn). At the least, the PC goes after some of his companions...

Changing the power level of stun changes all the PC powers and monster powers that use stun. It is much better to retain the power level of stun so that those many, many powers that use it don't have to be altered. Additionally, I see no reason why stun has to be linked to daze. Many monsters...