Official Ruling? Ranger throwing and Words

[invokethehojo]

A friend of mine is about to start a game at the local nerd store and I finally get to play (rock!) but there will probably be a lot of new players (as in new to table top RPG's) and he wants to make sure we do everything by the book. So...

Does anyone know if there have been official rulings for the following situations

1. Healing/Inspiring/Majestic Word: if you get one of these through a multiclass feat do you get to use it twice during one encounter each day or just one individual use per day?

2. If you make a ranger that uses melee weapons that are also heavy thrown weapons (like the handaxe) do you use your str modifier or dex when throwing them using at will powers like twin strike?

Thanks

 

[donkey1101]

1.Ask Wizards: 09/15/2008
2.dex

 

[invokethehojo]

Thanks dude.
Where did you hear about the ranger part?

 

[invokethehojo]

Nevermind, a friend of mine just downloaded the character builder and confirmed it

 

[Khime]

Thanks dude.
Where did you hear about the ranger part?

Heavy Thrown Weapons only have a special interaction with the Ranged Basic Attack power. With every other power, you use the modifier specified in the power. That's why twin strike uses Dex even with heavy thrown weapons.

 

[Mr. Teapot]

Compare Ranger with heavy thrown weapons to a Rogue wielding a Rapier: with their basic attacks, they use Strength, but when using class granted attack powers they use Dex. Or Paladins wielding swords based off of Charisma, Avengers wielding axes via Wisdom and similar things.


For all attacks, you use the attribute specified in the attack's description. For basic attacks, you look at page 287 of the PHB and see that they are a power just like any other: melee basic attacks are based on Strength and ranged basic attacks on Dex because pg 287 says so. Other powers use the attribute specified, which is often different from the stat used in a basic attack. The Heavy Thrown property on page 216 overrides the normal ranged basic attack description, but the description specifies that the property only affects basic attacks.

 

[Dan'L]

Compare Ranger with heavy thrown weapons to a Rogue wielding a Rapier: with their basic attacks, they use Strength, but when using class granted attack powers they use Dex. Or Paladins wielding swords based off of Charisma, Avengers wielding axes via Wisdom and similar things.

...Which is what makes the Melee Training feat from PHBII such a nice, useful addition

-Dan'L