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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Riastlin" data-source="post: 5536140" data-attributes="member: 94022">I agree, the article is fantastic AND its in front of the pay wall.  I wonder if this will be an ongoing theme with the tutorials or if they are using this as a means to try to entice more subscribers (i.e. give people a taste and then later push them behind the wall).  In any event, still a great article and particularly great to see it coming from a "new" DDi author.  Obviously Mike has written tons on 4ed but as far as I can recall this is his first foray into DDi.As to the powers, yeah they seem powerful, but then my group is also only level 11 at the moment.  Even at 11 though I've seen them pull out an amazing amount of healing and damage in short order and that's before you consider the increased healing amounts, extra healing words, and death recoveries the PCs will get by level 26, so I can certainly see this as being necessary.  Plus, consider that a well prepared party will likely have a decent amount of acid resistance spread amongst them if they are going off to fight a black dragon.I think the best part of the tutorial was the almost standard "know your party" bit.  Sure, it seems obvious, but its also something that's easy to forget when you are in a hurry to create an encounter and just want to plug and play.  If your party doesn't have a way to resist acid for some reason, then you likely would need to make some tweaks.At any rate, I really liked both tutorials a lot and am hoping for more in the future.</blockquote>

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