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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Alex319" data-source="post: 4962599" data-attributes="member: 45678">Overall, this seems like a very solid base. There are probably a few balance tweaks that would be useful to make although I can't see any styles that are obviously overpowered. The only possible exception is the Clincher that lets you make melee basic attacks against grabbed targets as a minor action - 3 attacks per round every round is pretty darn powerful at high levels, especially when most of your damage is going to be coming from those static damage modifiers.I also noticed you used terms that you didn't define anywhere, like "Short range" and "light, medium, and heavy weapons".I'll just make a few comments about the Afflicting and the conditions.- It seems a little too easy to do. You do get a -5 on the roll, but it's against Fort, which is usually 2-3 points lower than AC, so it's really more like -2 or -3. Also this makes Fort much more important than the other NADs (Non-AC Defenses). You might want to have different conditions key off of different NADs - e.g. Dominated keys off of Will, Disarmed keys off of Reflex, etc.- It's probably overpowered against Solos and possibly Elites too. This is a problem in the regular 4e game as will but it's going to be more serious in this version because everyone can (try to) inflict conditions at-will. Even with the -5 penalty, with everyone whaling on the solo they can easily inflict a couple conditions per round, and it really only takes about 3-5 steps worth of conditions to basically take someone out of the fight.- Some conditions are far more powerful than others. Dazed, for example, is very good because 3 steps worth is enough to stun him (save ends), and 4 steps worth is just as good as killing them.- Assuming you have a minor action to spare, it doesn't cost anything to try to inflict a condition, so it's easy to spam conditions without any loss in damage output.Possible suggestions:- Give elites and solos their save bonus as a bonus to their defense against Afflict. So a player would effectively be at -10 to Afflict an unbloodied solo.- Make it so that in order to Afflict you have to give something up - say halve the damage on the attack.- Have a different track for penalties to Afflict. For example something like:3/4 or more hp = -10 penalty1/2 to 3/4 = -5 penalty1/4 to 1/2 = no penalty, but still only get one step of the condition0 to 1/4 = no penalty, and get two steps of the conditionProbably you don't need to do both this and the half damage thing - one is enough and both would make conditions underpowered.---(By the way, I'm imagining someone with Brute and Two-Weapon Fighting wielding two mauls with several more on his person and using his battle surge to throw them at enemies... by the way, if a Brute is dual-wielding heavy weapons and expends his focus to do something else, what happens?)</blockquote>

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