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<blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 4278399" data-attributes="member: 42582">Well, sometimes when a rules lawyer is not available a plain old lawyer has to step in and do the job!Anyway, while there may be some oversights or errors in the books I find it a bit annoying when people are diagnosing problems that aren't even there.Like the Careful Strike/Sure Strike thing: we know from the pre-release info that these powers were revised and rebalanced several times as a result of playtesting. Rather than assume that WoTC can't do basic probability calculations, we should be trying to identify those effects that make it so important that a particular attack be the one to hit.For Sure Strike vs Reaping Strike, it would be any power from a magic item that allows a condition to be placed as a result of a hit (ie damage is not the main aim of the attack). The same will hold true for Careful Strike vs Twin Strike with two melee weapons. I haven't worked it out yet for Careful Strike vs Twin Strike with ranged attacks, but I'm still working on the theory that WoTC had something definite in mind when they wrote those powers.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pemerton, post: 4278399, member: 42582"] Well, sometimes when a rules lawyer is not available a plain old lawyer has to step in and do the job! Anyway, while there may be some oversights or errors in the books I find it a bit annoying when people are diagnosing problems that aren't even there. Like the Careful Strike/Sure Strike thing: we know from the pre-release info that these powers were revised and rebalanced several times as a result of playtesting. Rather than assume that WoTC can't do basic probability calculations, we should be trying to identify those effects that make it so important that a particular attack be the one to hit. For Sure Strike vs Reaping Strike, it would be any power from a magic item that allows a condition to be placed as a result of a hit (ie damage is not the main aim of the attack). The same will hold true for Careful Strike vs Twin Strike with two melee weapons. I haven't worked it out yet for Careful Strike vs Twin Strike with ranged attacks, but I'm still working on the theory that WoTC had something definite in mind when they wrote those powers. [/QUOTE]

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