The following is a level 16 build centered upon the theme of never performing attack rolls, never making damage rolls, and never directly inflicting damage. The original foundation of the build was a hybrid shaman|warlord/invoker, but the attack powers in recent releases such as Martial Power 2 and the Class Acts: The Commando Warlord article of Dragon Magazine #384 render such a character feasible as a pure Tactical Presence warlord. From a mechanical standpoint, I would say that this build is moderately less efficient, effective, and practical as a generic Tactical Presence warlord due to an inferior power selection, but playing such a character should offer you a refreshing and unique experience possible with few to no other builds available. Additionally, not having to select the Eladrin Soldier and Weapon Expertise feats and the utter superfluousness of a magic weapon for you are two of the more notable benefits of this build. Level 16 was chosen for the level of the character for three reasons: (1) it allows the multitudinous key feats of the character to be showcased, (2) there exists no level 1 warlord daily attack power that involves neither an attack roll nor a damage roll, and (3) the level 16 feature of the Battle Captain is exceedingly potent.

Apart from the gimmick of doing battle vicariously with the help of your allies' basic attacks, this build functions like any other level 16 eladrin Tactical Presence warlord/Battle Captain, only as a glaive-wielder rather than a greatspear-user. Polearm Gamble and Heavy Blade Opportunity allow Commander's Strike to be used on opportunity attacks. Combat Commander raises the initiative modifier of every party member by your Charisma or Intelligence modifier (+6), and the Cry Havoc level 11 feature augments your allies with a +2 bonus to attack rolls during the surprise round and the first round of combat. Not only do your allies gain a +3 bonus to attack rolls for any attack made through an action point due to your Tactical Presence class feature, but Tactical Assault bolsters the attack's damage rolls by +6 as well. Fight On and the lofty level of 16 grant you four uses of Inspiring Word each encounter. The Mark of Healing, Tactical Inspirationthe Tactician's Word feats, the Battle Inspiration feature, and a Mantle of the Golden General +4 make it such that the power heals for an additional 6 hit points and grants the target a +3 bonus to her next attack roll made before the start of your next turn. If the target is one of your allies, she also makes a saving throw with a +2 bonus andreceives a +6 power bonus to attack rolls and speed until the end of your next turn.

As a Tactical Presence warlord, you are truly a leader to be envied by other classes of your role. (In fact, I believe with confidence that due to the sheer amount of support it has recently received, the warlord is, by a small margin, the most powerful amongst the leader classes, at least until other power source supplements are published.) Pacifistically refusing to attack an enemy using your own force of arms shall not change this state of affairs.

No thanks.

Level: 16
Race: Eladrin, Player's Handbook, pages 38-39
Class: Warlord, Player's Handbook, pages 143-145
Commanding Presence: Tactical Presence, Player's Handbook, page 144
Paragon Path: Battle Captain, Player's Handbook, pages 153-154

Ability Scores:
Level 1: Strength 14, Constitution 11, Dexterity 12+2, Intelligence 16+2, Wisdom 14, Charisma 8
Level 4: Strength 14, Constitution 11, Dexterity 12+2, Intelligence 17+2, Wisdom 15, Charisma 8
Level 8: Strength 14, Constitution 11, Dexterity 12+2, Intelligence 18+2, Wisdom 16, Charisma 8
Level 11: Strength 15, Constitution 12, Dexterity 13+2, Intelligence 19+2, Wisdom 17, Charisma 9
Level 14: Strength 15, Constitution 12, Dexterity 13+2, Intelligence 20+2, Wisdom 18, Charisma 9

Feats:
Level 1: Tactical Assault, Player's Handbook, page 201
Level 2: Tactical Inspiration, Martial Power, page 139
Level 4: Mark of Healing, Eberron Player's Guide, page 91
Level 6: Divine Secretkeeper, Divine Power, page 144
Level 8: Toughness, Player's Handbook, page 201
Level 10: Durable, Player's Handbook, page 194
Level 11: Heavy Blade Opportunity, Player's Handbook, page 203
Level 11 (replaces Durable): Polearm Gamble, Player's Handbook, page 204
Level 12: Combat Commander, Player's Handbook, page 202
Level 12 (replaces Toughness): Tactician's Word, Dragon Magazine #381, page 31
Level 14: Fight On, Martial Power 2, page 142
Level 16: Reserve Maneuver, Player's Handbook 2, page 191

At-Will Attack Powers:
Level 1: Commander's Strike, Player's Handbook, page 145
Level 1: Direct the Strike, Martial Power 2, page 83

Remember: Touhoufag stops posting when he can't spam touhou. Let's stuff the image slots.

ALL HAIL THE HYPNOTOAD!

Encounter Attack Powers:
Level 1: Overwhelming Force Trap, Dragon Magazine #384, Class Acts: The Commando Warlord
Level 3: Powerful Warning, Martial Power 2, page 84
Level 7: Friendly Fire, Dragon Magazine #384, Class Acts: The Commando Warlord
Level 11: Force Retreat, Player's Handbook, page 153
Level 13 (replaces Powerful Warning): Blade Burst Trap, Dragon Magazine #384, Class Acts: The Commando Warlord
Level 16 (replaces Force Retreat): Powerful Warning, Martial Power 2, page 84

Daily Attack Powers:
Level 1: Lamb to the Slaughter, Dragon Magazine #381, page 32
Level 5: Scent of Victory, Martial Power, page 106
Level 9: Warlord's Recovery, Martial Power, page 109
Level 15 (replaces Lamb to the Slaughter): Call to Action, Dragon Magazine #384, Class Acts: The Commando Warlord

Utility Powers:
Level 2: Adaptive Stratagem, Martial Power, page 104
Level 6: Reorient the Axis, Martial Power 2, page 88
Level 10: Tactical Orders, Martial Power 2, page 90
Level 12: Bolt of Genius, Player's Handbook, page 154
Level 16: Help or Hinder, Martial Power 2, page 91

Equipment:
Main Hand: Glaive (Level 0, Free)
Armor: Summoned Darkhide +4 (Level 16, Free), Adventurer's Vault, page 53
Neck: Mantle of the Golden General +4 (Level 17, Free), Adventurer's Vault, page 123
Head: Golden Crown of Battle Command (Level 14, Free), Adventurer's Vault, page 123
Arms: Heroic-Tier Bracers of Escape (Level 7, 2,600 gp), Dragon Magazine #365, page 58
Feet: Heroic-Tier Boots of Quickness (Level 8, 3,400 gp), Adventurer's Vault, page 126
Waist: Heroic-Tier Belt of Vim (Level 8, 3,400 gp), Adventurer's Vault, page 164
Hands: Antipathy Gloves (Level 10, 5,000 gp), Adventurer's Vault, page 132
Wondrous: Heroic-Tier Eager Hero's Tatoo (Level 10, 5,000 gp), Adventurer's Vault 2, page 86
Wondrous: Map of Unseen Lands (Level 7, 2,600 gp), Adventurer's Vault, page 77
Grandmaster Training: Davros Elden's Defensive Step (Level 9, 2,600 gp), Dungeon Master's Guide 2, page 145
Gear: Backpack (Level 0, Free)
Gear: Bedroll (Level 0, Free)
Gear: Everburning Torch (Level 0, Free)
Gear: Fine Clothing (Level 0, Free)
Gear: Flint and Steel (Level 0, Free)
Gear: Journeybread, 10 days (Level 0, Free)
Gear: Pouch, Belt (Level 0, Free)
Gear: Rope, Silk, 50 feet (Level 0, Free)
Gear: Spellshard (Level 0, Free)
Gear: Waterskin (Level 0, Free)
Loose Change: 75 gp

Rituals (Spellshard):
Level 1 (Free): Brew Potion, Player's Handbook, page 301
Level 1 (50 gp): Comprehend Language, Player's Handbook, page 302
Level 1 (50 gp): Make Whole, Player's Handbook, page 309
Level 1 (50 gp): Tenser's Floating Disk, Player's Handbook, page 312
Level 4 (175) gp): Enchant Magic Item, Player's Handbook, page 304
Level 4 (Free): Hand of Fate, Player's Handbook, page 306

Miscellany:
Initiative: +16 (8 half level + 2 Dexterity modifier + 6 Intelligence modifier [Combat Leader, Combat Commander])
Size: Medium
Speed: 6 squares
Vision: Low-light
Passive Insight: 22 (10 base + 8 half level + 4 Wisdom modifier)
Passive Perception: 22 (10 base + 8 half level + 4 Wisdom modifier)
Trained Skills: Arcana (+2 racial), Endurance, Heal, History (+2 racial), Religion
Languages: Common, Elven
Special (Trance): Rather than sleep, eladrin enter a meditative state known as trance. You need to spend 4 hours in this state to gain the same benefits other races gain from taking a 6-hour extended rest. While in a trance, you are fully aware of your surroundings and notice approaching enemies and other events as normal.

Hit Points:
Hit Points: 99 (87 warlord + 12 Constitution score)
Bloodied: 49
Healing Surge Value: 24
Healing Surges per Day: 8 (7 warlord + 1 Constitution modifier)
Special (Heroic-Tier Eager Hero's Tattoo): When you take a short rest, you gain temporary hit points equal to 5 + the number of healing surges you have spent since your last extended rest.

Defenses:
AC: 32 (10 base + 8 half level + 4 enhancement + 6 Intelligence modifier + 4 darkhide)
Fortitude: 26 (10 base + 8 half level + 4 enhancement + 2 Strength modifier + 1 class + 1 Belt of Vim)
Reflex: 29 (10 base + 8 half level + 4 enhancement + 6 Intelligence modifier + 1 Boots of Quickness)
Will: 29 (10 base + 8 half level + 4 enhancement + 4 Wisdom modifier + 1 racial + 2 Regalia of the Golden General)
Special (Davros Elden's Defensive Step): When you shift, you gain a +1 item bonus to AC until the end of your next turn.
Special (Eladrin Will): You gain a +5 racial bonus to saving throws against charm effects.

Opportunity Attacks:
Antipathy Gloves (Item): An enemy must spend 1 extra square of movement to enter a square adjacent to you. An enemy that is pushed, pulled, or slid moves through those squares as normal.
Polearm Gamble (Feat): When a nonadjacent enemy enters a square adjacent to you, you can make an opportunity attack with a polearm against that enemy, but you grant combat advantage to that enemy until the end of the enemy's turn.
Heavy Blade Opportunity (Feat): When you make an opportunity attack with a heavy blade, you can use an at-will attack that has the weapon keyword (Commander's Strike) instead of a basic attack.

Leaderness:
Combat Leader (Feature), Combat Commander (Feat): You and each ally within 10 squares of you who can see and hear you gain a power bonus to initiative equal to your Intelligence modifier (+6).
Cry Havoc (Feature): On the first round of combat (or both the first and the surprise round if your allies gain a surprise round), allies who start their turn within 10 squares of you gain a +2 bonus to attack rolls.
Battle Action (Feature): When you spend an action point to take an extra action, your allies gain a +1 bonus to attack rolls until the start of your next turn. Your allies need to be able to see and hear you to gain this bonus.
Tactical Presence (Feature), Tactical Assault (Feat): When an ally you can see spends an action point to make an extra attack, the ally gains a bonus to the attack roll equal to one-half your Intelligence modifier (+3) and the damage roll equal to your Intelligence modifier (+6).

Tactical Inspiration (Feat), Tactician's Word (Feat): The target of your Inspiring Word regains additional hit points equal to your Intelligence modifier (+6) and gains a bonus equal to one-half your Intelligence modifier (+3) to its next attack roll made before the start of your next turn.
Battle Inspiration (Feature), Mark of Healing (Feat), Mantle of the Golden General +4 (Item): When you use your Inspiring Word power, allies you heal can make a saving throw with a +2 bonus and gain a power bonus to attack rolls and speed equal to your Intelligence modifier (+6) until the end of your next turn.
Fight On (Feat): You can use your Inspiring Word one additional time per encounter.
Golden Crown of Battle Command (Item): When you use a warlord power to grant a melee basic attack to an ally within your line of sight, that ally gains a +2 bonus to the attack roll and the damage roll.

Pertinent Item Powers:
Summoned Elderhide +4 (At-Will): Minor Action. You banish this armor to a secure extradimensional location. At any point in the future, unless you are wearing armor, you can use another minor action to recall the armor. The armor appears on you as though you had donned it normally.
Davros Elden's Defensive Step (Encounter): Minor Action. Shift 2 squares. (You gain a +1 item bonus to AC until the end of your next turn.)
Bracers of Escape (Daily): Immediate Interrupt. You can use this power when you are the target of a melee attack. You teleport 2 squares.

That is all.

Interesting. I will keep this in mind touhou. If and when I play in a different 4e game I will likely use something similiar to this or the gnoll barbarian/rogue claw fighter I've been tinkering with.

>>8242260
>>8242274
>>8242281
So, Captain Tylor the Warlord? I need to try this.

My vision of this character is, as heavily implied in the opening post, an erudite "warlord" who is utterly aware of her effectively luck-altering presence, leading to cries of, say, "Why does that always happen?" when an enemy's attack is swerved towards another adversary due to Friendly Fire. What follows is a trio of addenda that should be kept in mind:

• With regards to powers, Wisdom is irrelevant. Without the Insightful Presence, the rider effect of Powerful Warning does not involve Wisdom at all. You can raise either Strength to improve your Fortitude, Constitution to increase your hit points and healing surges (and eventually, Fortitude as well), or Wisdom to upgrade your Will.

• The shaman multiclass feat duad of Spirit Talker and Mending Spirit would be helpful for this type of character, though the starting point of its viability lies only near the end of the paragon tier. However, I feel that a spirit companion would compromise the core flavor of this build that sets it apart from a Watcher Spirit shaman.

• A focus on Intelligence and Constitution would be a viable alternative to arranging your ability scores for the sake of gaining Polearm Gamble and Heavy Blade Opportunity, especially for a character who shall enter play at the heroic tier, when such feats are inaccessible. This said, I believe that, at the paragon tier, the sheer defensive barricade that Polearm Gamble and Heavy Blade Opportunity provide is a great boon to the build, more so than a slightly higher AC, higher hit points and healing surges, and two liberated feat slots. Most would prefer to have enemies fear their opportunity attacks, rather than to be incapable of performing opportunity attacks with efficacy. Besides, having your melee allies take up the mantle of noble protector whilst you are adjacent to them is a lovely novelty.

>>8242331

Please replace the Daily Attack Powers block with the following:

Daily Attack Powers:
Level 1: Destructive Surprise, Dragon Magazine #384, Class Acts: Warlord
Level 5: Scent of Victory, Martial Power, page 106
Level 9: Warlord's Recovery, Martial Power, page 109
Level 15 (replaces Destructive Surprise): Call to Action, Dragon Magazine #384, Class Acts: The Commando Warlord

Destructive Surprise, unlike Lamb to the Slaughter, does not mandate an attack roll from you.

This is a.... strange build.

if you wanted to ruin touhou threads, then wikispam it

that seems to work on /a/

Heavy blade op attacks need the weapon keyword do they not?

>>8246474

Fortunately, the Commander's Strike at-will power bears the Weapon keyword.

I feel like the only one to look forward to Touhoufag's threads.

>>8246518
You're not the only one, bro.

Hey what are we using Reserve Maneuver for?

Woah, woah, woah.

Why does /tg/ hate Touhoufag now? I thought we were tolerant of him. Besides, he's answered all my DnD questions about how to do certain things (create life, maximize usefullness of a pure fighter, make an extremely accurate bow weilder, etc.) in a polite and timely fashion.

All I've every had to do was ask the question while posting a touhou picture.

I like this

>>8246681

Because it's not 40k or porn so there will be people who shit all over it.

>>8246681
Some faggot can't stand the pictures.

>>8246681

I agree! We should be uniting against that disgusting camwhore Golden Neckbeard, damnit.

>>8246518

I don't play 4e, but I find his threads interesting. Especially because he doesn't build "destroy the game" optimized builds, but "suit a purpose" optimized builds. Like this one; optimized for boosting allies and not rolling your own attacks.

>"destroy the game" optimized builds,

I recall a WoD build that allowed you to basically 'roll all the ten-siders on the fucking table'.

The imagespammer has stopped posting, guys. Calm down and enjoy the build.

>>8246773
But someone literally ASKED for it.

>>8246681

/tg/ doesn't hate Touhoufag. A single vocal spammer does.

Anyway, while I would probably get rather bored using it, this build amuses me.

>>8246745
And I like the threads because he brings me high-quality touhous, in the end, so long as you ignore what doesn't interest you, you'll have no problem

Except sagefag, but meh

TF, do you have archives of your posts zipped up somewhere?

Oh yes, this is why I loved warlords at first sight.

>Why does /tg/ hate Touhoufag now?

DURP DURP TG IS A HIVEMIND LOL

>>8246799
I myself get more bored when I have to roll attacks

Touhoufag, while you're here, what is your opinion on the 4e monk?

Interesting build too, may have to try that sometime.

>>8246910

You can play the type of general who leads from the front equally well though.

>>8246799

I think this character would be a lot of fun to play, actually. I find combat boring, and the idea of playing a pacifist in a combat-heavy game like D&D is hilarious.

I bet shou fucks like a tiger.

>>8246923

Monks are fucking awesome. They're better at battle than 3.5 Monks, but lost a lot of the resistances, immunities, and squirrel-talking.

>>8246821

Looking kinda Abdul al-Hazred there, Patchy.

>>8246920

Playing a character like this requires all the involvement of being in combat but gives you none of the dramatic bits.

>>8246518
Hey, I like 'em too. Frankly, they're the best thing going on here apart from BMJ's occasional AE tidbits.

>>8246821

FFF

D-do you have any more like that? I have such a hardon for Touhou art that isn't HURR GENERIC ANIMU style

Pic possibly related. If you have a desktop sized version of this, I will love you forever

>>8247227
Well this one is kinda Castlevania-themed. Like, before it went anime in the DS games.

>>8247227

Like this?

>>8247227

>>8247227

>>8247227
Like this?

>>8247291

Yeah, pretty much exactly like that, actually. I already had this pic, but thanks anyway ::3

Addendum: I should clarify that as long as said art isn't just SO KAWAII MOE EYES XXD, it's cool. Pic related

>>8247257

That's pretty neat. I was more hoping for desktop images, but wutevah works

I always found the idea of technical pacifists interesting for D&D. Hopefully Arcane/Divine/Primal Power 2 and Psionic Power allow this for other leaders.

... i didn't intend to upload that iku tenshi, but oh well

Last one, trolling sagefag is fun, but this is /tg/ after all (no problem since it's autosaged already)

>>8247628
DP had the pacifist cleric build and a feat to go along with it, and the pacifist cleric powers tend to be a lot better than the damage dealing shit.

>>8247596
>>8247605
>>8247616

Aw hell yea

>>8247638

Wait what, those are touhou characters? Looks like I need to brush up on my Knowledge: (Touhou)..

Those threads in short form

>>8247672
>autosage
You're off by like 150 posts.

>>8247701
What the hell is the original of that?

>>8247694
They aren't in their traditional outfits, but it's Meiling, Flandre and Remilia.

>>8247694
Looks like Meiling, Remilia, and Flandre to me.

But then again the characters are a bit difficult to discern with how they're drawn unless you look real closely. Blue haired girl has bat wings that sort of blend into the carriage, Blonde hair has those weird crystal wings, and well, Meiling's a redhead.

>>8247798

I fucking love this picture. Every time I see it I'm forced to imagine how awesome a straight-faced Gensokyo campaign could be.

"The court of the deposed princess is more spartan than you were told, just a large empty room with bamboo walls. A simple chair serves as her throne and a window cut in the shape of the sickle of the moon as the only decoration. Despite her obvious destitution, she maintains royal composure and her simple robes are spotless. She meets you with a hard, silent stare.

Behind her you see an older woman who must be an advisor of some sort, and what the fuck her bodyguard is wearing fake rabbit ears that shit is wack man it makes no sense what the fuck"

>>8247832
>that shit is wack man
that shit is off the fucking chain, mah nigga

>>8247832
I'm pretty sure people would start checking the system when told about the little girl

>>8247757

Not the guy you're talking to, but alas, I don't have the original of it. It's something like Marisa wants to call the girl on the left "potato girl," because her name is retardedly hard to spell I guess, and the girl on the left wants to call Marisa "da ze kid" in retaliation

>>8247808

OH JESUS YOU'RE RIGHT

THAT FUCKING PICTURE HAS BEEN IN MY MEDIEVAL ART FOLDER FOR FUCKING EVER

STEALTH-TOUHOUS, I NEVER THOUGHT I'D SEE THE DAY

For those of you who would like to play this build at the heroic tier without any intention of ever reaching the paragon tier and gaining Heavy Blade Opportunity and Polearm Gamble, two feats that push back the much-beneficial Combat Commmander and Tactician's Word from level 11 to level 12 anyway, it would be best to settle for a pre-racial ability score spread of Strength 8, Constitution 13, Dexterity 10, Intelligence 18, Wisdom 13, and Charisma 10. A mundane whip should be in your main hand, and you need not even be proficient with it to avail of its one-handed reach. Meanwhile, your off-hand can carry a mundane spiked shield (I do not believe in the chicanery of Rhythm Blade Spiked Shields) for a +1 shield bonus to AC and Reflex.

Level: 8
Race: Eladrin, Player's Handbook, pages 38-39
Class: Warlord, Player's Handbook, pages 143-145
Commanding Presence: Tactical Presence, Player's Handbook, page 144

Ability Scores:
Level 1: Strength 8, Constitution 13, Dexterity 10+2, Intelligence 18+2, Wisdom 13, Charisma 10
Level 4: Strength 8, Constitution 14, Dexterity 10+2, Intelligence 19+2, Wisdom 13, Charisma 10
Level 8: Strength 8, Constitution 14, Dexterity 10+2, Intelligence 20+2, Wisdom 14, Charisma 10

Feats:
Level 1: Tactical Assault, Player's Handbook, page 201
Level 2: Tactical Inspiration, Martial Power, page 139
Level 4: Mark of Healing, Eberron Player's Guide, page 91
Level 6: Divine Secretkeeper, Divine Power, page 144
Level 8: Improved Tactics, Martial Power, page 136

At-Will Attack Powers:
Level 1: Commander's Strike, Player's Handbook, page 145
Level 1: Direct the Strike, Martial Power 2, page 83

Encounter Attack Powers:
Level 1: Overwhelming Force Trap, Dragon Magazine #384, Class Acts: The Commando Warlord
Level 3: Powerful Warning, Martial Power 2, page 84
Level 7: Friendly Fire, Dragon Magazine #384, Class Acts: The Commando Warlord

Daily Attack Powers:
Level 1: Destructive Surprise, Dragon Magazine #384, Class Acts: Warlord
Level 5: Scent of Victory, Martial Power, page 106

Utility Powers:
Level 2: Adaptive Stratagem, Martial Power, page 104
Level 6: Reorient the Axis, Martial Power 2, page 88

Equipment:
Main Hand: Whip (Level 0, Free)
Off-Hand: Light Shield (Level 0, Free)
Armor: Elven Battle Hide +2 (Level 8, Free), Player's Handbook, page 230
Neck: Resplendent Cloak +2 (Level 8, Free), Adventurer's Vault 2, page 104
Arms: Phylactery of Action (Level 3, 680 gp), The Village of Hommlet, page 21
Feet: Acrobat Boots (Level 2, 520 gp), Player's Handbook, page 246
Head: Goggles of Aura Sight (Level 5, 1,000 gp), Adventurer's Vault, page 141
Grandmaster Training: Davros Elden's Defensive Step (Level 7, Free), Dungeon Master's Guide 2, page 145
Gear: Backpack (Level 0, Free)
Gear: Bedroll (Level 0, Free)
Gear: Everburning Torch (Level 0, Free)
Gear: Fine Clothing (Level 0, Free)
Gear: Flint and Steel (Level 0, Free)
Gear: Journeybread, 10 days (Level 0, Free)
Gear: Pouch, Belt (Level 0, Free)
Gear: Rope, Silk, 50 feet (Level 0, Free)
Gear: Spellshard (Level 0, Free)
Gear: Waterskin (Level 0, Free)
Loose Change: 75 gp

Rituals (Spellshard):
Level 1 (Free): Brew Potion, Player's Handbook, page 301
Level 1 (50 gp): Comprehend Language, Player's Handbook, page 302
Level 1 (50 gp): Make Whole, Player's Handbook, page 309
Level 1 (50 gp): Tenser's Floating Disk, Player's Handbook, page 312
Level 4 (175) gp): Enchant Magic Item, Player's Handbook, page 304
Level 4 (Free): Hand of Fate, Player's Handbook, page 306

>>8247896

What, there are no little girls in your games?

>>8247983

Interesting. Like some Josei-manga style.

Also-

>Tewi only a meter tall. On tiptoes.

wut

Miscellany:
Initiative: +7 (4 half level + 1 Dexterity modifier + 2 Combat Leader)
Size: Medium
Speed: 6 squares
Vision: Low-light
Passive Insight: (10 base + 4 half level + 2 Wisdom modifier)
Passive Perception: (10 base + 4 half level + 2 Wisdom modifier)
Trained Skills: Arcana (+2 racial), Endurance, Heal (+2 item), History (+2 racial), Religion
Languages: Common, Elven

Hit Points:
Hit Points: 61 (47 warlord + 14 Constitution score)
Bloodied: 30
Healing Surge Value: 15
Healing Surges per Day: 9 (7 warlord + 2 Constitution modifier)

Defenses:
AC: 26 (10 base + 4 half level + 2 enhancement + 6 Intelligence modifier + 3 hide + 1 light shield)
Fortitude: 19 (10 base + 4 half level + 2 enhancement + 2 Constitution modifier + 1 class)
Reflex: 23 (10 base + 4 half level + 2 enhancement + 6 Intelligence modifier + 1 light shield)
Will: 20 (10 base + 4 half level + 2 enhancement + 2 Wisdom modifier + 1 class + 1 racial)
Special (Resplendent Cloak +2): You and each ally within 10 squares of you gain a +2 bonus to Will against charm, fear, and illusion attacks.
Special (Davros Elden's Defensive Step): When you shift, you gain a +1 item bonus to AC and Reflex until the end of your next turn.
Special (Eladrin Will): You gain a +5 racial bonus to saving throws against charm effects.
Special (Elven Battle Hide +2): You gain a +5 item bonus to saving throws against being slowed or immobilized.

Leaderness:
Combat Leader (Feature), Combat Commander (Feat): You and each ally within 10 squares of you who can see and hear you gain a +2 power bonus to initiative.
Tactical Presence (Feature), Tactical Assault (Feat), Improved Tactics (Feat): When an ally you can see spends an action point to make an extra attack, the ally gains a bonus to the attack roll equal to 1 + one-half your Intelligence modifier (total of +4) and the damage roll equal to your Intelligence modifier (+6).
Tactical Inspiration (Feat): The target of your Inspiring Word regains additional hit points equal to your Intelligence modifier (+6).
Mark of Healing (Feat): When you use your Inspiring Word power, allies you heal can make a saving throw.

Item Powers:
Davros Elden's Defensive Step (Encounter): Minor Action. Shift 2 squares. (You gain a +1 item bonus to AC and Reflex until the end of your next turn.)
Elven Battle Hide +2 (Encounter): Minor Action. You gain a +2 power bonus to speed until the end of your next turn.
Goggles of Aura Sight (Encounter): Minor Action. Choose a target within 10 squares of you. Learn the target's current and maximum hit point values, any current disease or poison conditions on the target, and any disease or poison effect the target can deal.
Phylactery of Action (Encounter): No Action. Reroll a saving throw against any effect on you that applies one or more of these conditions: dazed, immobilized, petrified, restrained, or stunned. You must use the new result, even if it is lower.

That is all.

>>8247983
I fucking hate this height chart. They're all goddamn midgets.

>>8248077

That's because they're all Japanese, and female.

>>8248089
I don't care! I like my women to not be ridiculously short!

You should always put a thread title in place. Most people would like to filter out the spam.

On another note, thanks for the wikispam hint. I might do exactly that, next time I spot a toushit thread early.

>>8246662

Reserve Maneuver is used to swap out the level 11 encounter power of the Battle Captain paragon path, Forced Retreat, for a power that involves neither an attack roll nor a damage roll. Alas, there is sufficient berth for the feat only at level 11.

>>8246821

The archive has not yet been prepared for public display.

>>8246923

The monk is within the ranks of the five greater strikers, the other four being the barbarian, the ranger, the rogue, and the sorcerer. The lesser three strikers would be the assassin, the avenger, and the warlock. In any case, the monk wields a high set of defenses (especially with the Unarmored Agility heroic feat, which grants a +2 feat bonus to AC while in cloth armor or no armor), melee mobility matched by no other class, and multitarget attacks that Dragon Magic sorcerers should be envious of. It is, by all means, a high-quality striker class. It supports a wide variety of weapons as well, including unarmed strikes, quarterstaffs, daggers, and fullblades.

>>8248104
wellll eexxcuuuuuse me

>>8248077

I don't see it. The "adult" ones are all about 160-170 cm, normal for women. Kanako and the not-Suika are a statuesque 180. The rest are either teenagers/children or look like that.

>>8247227
>Touhou art that isn't HURR GENERIC ANIMU style

Ah, I might have a few of those, depending on how different from the usual you want them. Not many, but a few.

Martin Luther Hijiri seems to get a surprising amount of these, as does Ghost Kirby and Flower Psycho.

>>8248077

Well, yeah. Most of them aren't even full fledged adults yet. Most are teenagers, at best

>>8248160

Well, let's just say that anything up to and including shit like this is cool with me ::3

Touhoufag, have you done a review of the previewed feats for PHB3? Some, like Unarmored Agility, polearm flanking, and hafted defense look blue, if not sky blue, especially for cloth-only classes so they don't need to raise proficiency to Leather.

>>8248104
While not saying it's Asian based it's the "not white, not Hispanic, and not african" one. Considering most of the girls on the chart, are well girls, they are hitting around the average mark of 160 CM for adult 'Asian' women.

>>8248237

I see. Let me start bumping around my eleven thousand images at random...

To start, have a troll done on inks.

>>8248248

Unarmored Agility, a sky blue (5/5) feat for avengers and monks alike and a substitute for Armor Proficiency (Leather) for psions, sorcerers, wizards, and hybrids thereof, is the only feat whose full text is viewable. I have no right to pass judgment on the others.

>>8248298

Please cease.

>ghost kirby

>>8248089

Ah yes, animu heights are fun. Especially when you get characters (protagonists, usually) who are meant to be tall but seem totally average to westerners, or the occasional jarring "holy shit this guy is 5'3"" realization.

>>8242260
I love the flavor introduction here. From you, that's something.

I'm picturing a de facto warlord running around 'helplessly' and cowering as his allies find that they're suddenly badasses when he's around.

>>8248002
>>8248035
>>8248053
>>8248062
I don't know how well this would work out at level 3, but I'll be damn sure to try it for my next game.

>>8248350
>Please cease.
Who died and made you king?

>>8248737
He's asking politely. And from him, that's a 10/10.

>>8248737

Well, he did make the thread and seems to be using it as an optimization consultory, so he might not want to see the thread autodage quickly. That's why I indeed stopped when he asked, despite only being trying to help the image-wanting anon.

>>8248737

In fairness, he is perhaps rightly concerned that this thread is veering off into straight touhou territory, rather than discussion of 4e

It's a little hypocritical to be concerned about, given that he always posts with touhou images, but it's the content of his post that matters; other touhou desktop posters, such as myself, haven't really discussed anything related to the topic at hand

I don't even play 4e, but I figure postan desktop images is better than letting the thread die ;_;

>>8248776
>>8248805
Oh, I see what you mean, and by extension Touhoufag. I apologize if I came off as rude or untoward.

Battle Captain is getting errataed a week from now. Start of March. Calling it now.

oh wow, this is still up?

if you wanted to ruin touhou threads, then wikispam it

that seems to work on /a/

>>8250193 Battle Captain is getting errataed

For what? It's not like it's all that much better than the other Warlord paragon paths.

What would the best ally for this character be? I'm thinking some sort of hybrid warlock with a pimped out Eldritch Strike with Polearm Momentum.

>>8250598
Yeah but...

/a/ sucks ass.

have they changed anything about the monk since that first playtest was released?

>>8252699
Stop bumping.

>>8251865
Retribution Avenger perhaps

>>8252717
No, I have a question that pertains to D&D and have an open thread that pertains to D&D; I will ask my question in this thread rather than make a shit thread for one question.

Stop being a faggot.

>>8248160
>Ghost Kirby
... heh.

>>8253017
wtf

>>8253031
Yukkuris are fucking creepy, man.

>>8251865
Barbarian?

>>8248144
>monk
>fullblade
Wait, what? Why? They don't even have any [w] powers now.

>>8255726
fists are [w]eapons

>>8256111
But all monk powers are now Implement powers that have fixed dice of damage.

>>8255726
>>8256113
High crit?

Wait, am I missing something? I'm really out of the loop, but monks haven't been released yet, have they?

>>8257130
Just been a preview of the Dex/Wis Monk.

>>8245149
>Level 1: Destructive Surprise, Dragon Magazine #384, Class Acts: Warlord
>No Lead the Attack

Sorry kid, not interested in the build.

the fluff text makes the build seem hilarious, have all the buffing ability fluffed as "wierd luck and coincident that somehow happens when this guy's around"

bump

>>8260279
That had the only purpose of perpetuating this thread, which is objectively shitting up the board. Die in a fire.

>>8259581
I had read it more as sarcasm and being humble for the sake of showing off and humor.

>>8259214
He did say it was "moderately less efficient, effective, and practical as a generic Tactical Presence warlord due to an inferior power selection".

>>8262093
Thank the gods that unlike rollplayers, roleplayers don't play for maximum efficiency.