Avalanche Hammer + Badge of the Berserker

With the avalanche hammer you do 1 [W] extra damage when you charge, and with the badge of the berserker you don’t provoke oppertunity attacks while charging.

So you can just charge enemies every turn and do 2 [W] damage.

What do you think?

As far as I know, equipment “sets” were introduced by Blizzard in Diablo II, not WoW. That’s all I meant in my comment.

Obviously any and all video RPGs owe their existence to D&D. To the extent that 4e borrows concepts from CRPGs or MtG, I couldn’t care less so long as WotC sticks to borrowing the good parts that mesh well with tabletop play.

Most of the slams on 4e are just silly — I love it. The only bad part, IMO, is the burden of status tracking (marks, curses, quarries, stunned, weakened, immobilized, ongoing damage, zones, global warming, ozone depletion, tectonic shifts, etc.) If they can figure out how to streamline that bit, I’d have not complaints at all.

1st was Chainmail in the 70′s (probably earlier, but I’m born in the 80′s so I don’t go back further ) which was not unlike Warhammer. Gygax introduced the “D20″ system of one character per player against smaller groups of enemies (rather than entire armies pitted against one another) and a different set of dice to play. Fast forward to the computer era and all your “rpg” games (WoW, Baldur’s Gate, Everquest, etc etc) are based on D20: you roll a die, add modifiers from stats, and get your result in combat and skills.

Infact, the reason I stopped playing WoW and got back into D&D once 4th came out was because it’s just more fun. My group is hilariously imaginative (first level, natural 20 on a bluff, they score a town based on the history of a pocket watch worth 30 gold from treasure in their first adventure. I didn’t have the heart to deny them). You just can’t do that shit on WoW.

So yeah, I’m sure there are nods to many RPG games in 4.0, but know your history: D&D came first.

http://forum.candlekeep.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=893&whichpage=41

It was called the “Arm of Valor”…

I got tired of defending against the “4e is WoW” argument. I just run 2 4e games a week, and both have 6 players each, so I don’t worry anymore who does, and does not like it. My friends who don’t like it, or see it for the growing, dynamic edition which the designers keep feeding ideas into, can go play PF… my tables are full!
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Hand and Eye of Vecna.
Rod of Seven Parts.

Really, there isn’t much that’s new. And that which is new, was borrowed from somewhere anyways.

Dice_Girl: The fluff in AV2 might make it worth buying for a player, but I think if your DM has a copy that should be good enough unless you’re really gung-ho about your items!

@JS Dougan & Tim: I didn’t see anything about superior implements, so I imagine you’re right that they were put off to PHB3, but I’ll double check just to be sure they’re not mentioned or anything!

@Nicholas: Seriously, I think the item sets go a long way towards relieving some of that disappointment but a book of new artifacts or at least containing several new ones would be quite nice. I imagine they are trying to keep artifacts in the realm of the DM so they probably felt best to keep them out of the AV books, possibly the DMG2 will have more?

I have never been to interested in these books because I wasn’t the DM (and thus didn’t get to choose what items where found). However I did thumb through it once or twice and I agree it was confusing. Sounds like a step in the right direction, thanks for the details!