New Posts For Thread: Class builds, Essentials and Powers, help a Newbiehttp://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75882/29483445/Class_builds,_Essentials_and_Powers,_help_a_NewbieSo I'm new to 4.0 but not D&D. My brother and his friends want me to run a session or two for them to check out D&D (They're new)They have some of the "Essentials" books, and we created characters from them. I have the Players Handbook and DM Guide(Thanks everyone, I think I got it now. I think a lot of what was throwing me off was I didn't see the chart in the players handbook outlineing the advancement and how you pick your powers.Also the fact that the Paladin and Cleric powers were named "http://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75882/29483445/Class_builds,_Essentials_and_Powers,_help_a_Newbie?post_id=525905643#525905643Thanks everyone, I think I got it now. I think a lot of what was throwing me off was I didn't see the chart in the players handbook outlineing the advancement and how you pick your powers.Also the fact that the Paladin and Cleric powers were named "Thu, 08 Nov 2012 23:11:47 -0600When you have an option to pick something, you must do so. At character creation, you must choose which Pact your Warlock is going to take. As for the suggested builds, Deceptive Warlock and Scourging Warlock are largely meaningless. A "Deceptive Warhttp://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75882/29483445/Class_builds,_Essentials_and_Powers,_help_a_Newbie?post_id=525887251#525887251When you have an option to pick something, you must do so. At character creation, you must choose which Pact your Warlock is going to take. As for the suggested builds, Deceptive Warlock and Scourging Warlock are largely meaningless. A "Deceptive WarThu, 08 Nov 2012 11:13:31 -0600It's worth noting that whever you get a free choice of powers, you get to pick from all sources (i.e. when a Slayer picks his second level utility power, he can pick from all the books which have Fighter utils, not just the e-books. It's also worthhttp://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75882/29483445/Class_builds,_Essentials_and_Powers,_help_a_Newbie?post_id=525879657#525879657It's worth noting that whever you get a free choice of powers, you get to pick from all sources (i.e. when a Slayer picks his second level utility power, he can pick from all the books which have Fighter utils, not just the e-books. It's also worthThu, 08 Nov 2012 06:36:37 -06001. Class builds are useless, the people who wrote them do not understand how to make good characters.There are still Fighters, Wizards, Clerics, etc. and when they released Essentials, they created the Fighter (Slayer), Wizard (Mage), and Cleric (Warhttp://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75882/29483445/Class_builds,_Essentials_and_Powers,_help_a_Newbie?post_id=525875685#5258756851. Class builds are useless, the people who wrote them do not understand how to make good characters.There are still Fighters, Wizards, Clerics, etc. and when they released Essentials, they created the Fighter (Slayer), Wizard (Mage), and Cleric (WarThu, 08 Nov 2012 00:34:10 -0600So I'm new to 4.0 but not D&D. My brother and his friends want me to run a session or two for them to check out D&D (They're new)They have some of the "Essentials" books, and we created characters from them. I have the Players Handbook and DM Guide(http://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75882/29483445/Class_builds,_Essentials_and_Powers,_help_a_Newbie?post_id=525875287#525875287So I'm new to 4.0 but not D&D. My brother and his friends want me to run a session or two for them to check out D&D (They're new)They have some of the "Essentials" books, and we created characters from them. I have the Players Handbook and DM Guide(Wed, 07 Nov 2012 23:36:18 -0600