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First Post
Lots of tidbits from posts by Rich Baker on Gleemax added to the first post.
Significant info on the Swordmage here.
Illusionists will have better Invisibility options than a Wizard (source). They may use the Shadow power source (source).
Necromancers are mentioned here. They use the Shadow power source (Worlds & Monsters, and here).
Rich Baker gives his guesstimate of traction for ten races from Aarakocra to Catfolk here.
Goliaths will probably be in 4e Forgotten Realms, possibly with a spot in Faerun earmarked for them so you'll know where they're from when they're released (source).
Half-Giants may be too similar to Goliaths (source).
Rich Baker hopes to have Half-Orcs on DDi pretty soon after the Player's Handbook hits (source; note this is from January). He expects to see at least a couple of returning classes (Barbarian, Druid, Bard, Sorcerer) on DDi by this summer (source); later he guesses we might see Bard or Druid by late summer or early fall (source).
Half-Orcs "imply a very ugly backstory"; they may try to change that (source).
Gnomes, Half-Orcs, and Goliaths will be mentioned in the 4e Realms products, but not dwelled on because the rules for them will be a ways off (source).
Bards, Druids, Barbarians, and Sorcerers will be in print in 2009 (source).
Sorcerers will get flying a little faster than wizards do (source).
"Multiclassing into swordmage is pretty easy for a wizard (and vice versa)" (source). Swordmages like Int and Str (source).
Genasi ability adjustments "don’t really support warlock all that well"; they have elemental manifestations, which are "really righteous racial abilities"; Firesoul and Stormsoul are two of the options (source).
Significant info on the Swordmage here.
Illusionists will have better Invisibility options than a Wizard (source). They may use the Shadow power source (source).
Necromancers are mentioned here. They use the Shadow power source (Worlds & Monsters, and here).
Rich Baker gives his guesstimate of traction for ten races from Aarakocra to Catfolk here.
Goliaths will probably be in 4e Forgotten Realms, possibly with a spot in Faerun earmarked for them so you'll know where they're from when they're released (source).
Half-Giants may be too similar to Goliaths (source).
Rich Baker hopes to have Half-Orcs on DDi pretty soon after the Player's Handbook hits (source; note this is from January). He expects to see at least a couple of returning classes (Barbarian, Druid, Bard, Sorcerer) on DDi by this summer (source); later he guesses we might see Bard or Druid by late summer or early fall (source).
Half-Orcs "imply a very ugly backstory"; they may try to change that (source).
Gnomes, Half-Orcs, and Goliaths will be mentioned in the 4e Realms products, but not dwelled on because the rules for them will be a ways off (source).
Bards, Druids, Barbarians, and Sorcerers will be in print in 2009 (source).
Sorcerers will get flying a little faster than wizards do (source).
"Multiclassing into swordmage is pretty easy for a wizard (and vice versa)" (source). Swordmages like Int and Str (source).
Genasi ability adjustments "don’t really support warlock all that well"; they have elemental manifestations, which are "really righteous racial abilities"; Firesoul and Stormsoul are two of the options (source).
