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<blockquote data-quote="CapnZapp" data-source="post: 4777328" data-attributes="member: 12731">I'm looking for summaries of your specific powers; text that allows you to get an inkling of what kind of stunts your character of a specific class might pull off. Without actually having to read through all those powers, that is. Stuff like a rogue getting to attack everyone with a blinding attack; stuff like fighters getting to spend healing surges on a successful attack...Abilities that aren't &quot;expected&quot;. No need to say these guys do 2W and 3W damage in a hundred different variations.I would like to understand the tendencies - what different classes get good at doing. The itemized nature of 4E makes it very difficult to &quot;grok&quot; a class without actually playing it, and as the DM I would like to have at least a basic understanding of what each class does (does well) at each tier...I'm sure each class can be described using eight or twelve &quot;tendencies&quot; (on a layer lower than the superficial stuff the class intros give you) - at the very least, WotC must have internal documents like this, or they'll end up with all classes doing everything.If you have played a class throughout an entire tier, I'm hoping you have pretty much the same knowledge... so please share! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="CapnZapp, post: 4777328, member: 12731"] I'm looking for summaries of your specific powers; text that allows you to get an inkling of what kind of stunts your character of a specific class might pull off. Without actually having to read through all those powers, that is. Stuff like a rogue getting to attack everyone with a blinding attack; stuff like fighters getting to spend healing surges on a successful attack... Abilities that aren't "expected". No need to say these guys do 2W and 3W damage in a hundred different variations. I would like to understand the tendencies - what different classes get good at doing. The itemized nature of 4E makes it very difficult to "grok" a class without actually playing it, and as the DM I would like to have at least a basic understanding of what each class does (does well) at each tier... I'm sure each class can be described using eight or twelve "tendencies" (on a layer lower than the superficial stuff the class intros give you) - at the very least, WotC must have internal documents like this, or they'll end up with all classes doing everything. If you have played a class throughout an entire tier, I'm hoping you have pretty much the same knowledge... so please share! :) [/QUOTE]

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