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Eberron was explicitly created to have everything in it. That was the whole point of the setting search.

They should keep the core cosmology because that way it's far easier to convince people new to Dark Sun to buy into the setting. "Throw out everything you know about 4e and learn all this highly specific stuff that can't be used in other settings, and here's fifty pages of stuff that overwrites...

Even so, big bonuses aren't balanced by big flaws - not in the reckoning of the designers of 4e, anyways.

Wizards will never publish a Large PC race, because there's no way to balance the racial feature "Affects 150% more creatures with Close Bursts". Half-Giants should just use the Goliath stats.

Maybe Defiler will be a Multiclass like Spellscarred? If that's the case I don't see any reason to restrict it to Arcane Only, since having it without an Arcane class would just mean that all the arcane spells you know are defiling spells.

I'm pretty sure there will still be an Astral Sea, there just won't be any divine realms left standing. The ruined wastes of the gods' strongholds are too tempting an epic challenge to ignore.

Since the Divine Power Source is passed down from worshiper to worshiper in 4e, instead of directly granted every morning by the gods, they could describe Divine classes as rare in the setting and not have to completely rebuild them into what should be Elemental Power Source classes.

That's just a pervasive lie that malice has spread around so it can keep working unnoticed.;)

I hear that.

If the setting turns out to be Dragonlance, and if there is word one in the books about Kender, I will flat out ignore the existence of the setting. Kender are no fun in a group - their schtick is "steal from the other players and cause the absolute most trouble possible." Not a fun experince...

I disagree with your premise. Stalker Shaman - Int to AC. Protector Shaman - Spend one feat for chain. Boom. Done.

Maybe your bow straps across your back and fires by itself, like Amaterasu from Okami. It's probably a magic bow at that point anyways. I think it's cooler than shooting whiskers, at least.

I'm playing a shaman, and while the encounter attacks are okay - 2d8 or 2d10 - the real strength comes with giving all adjacent allies giant bonuses to damage and mobility. Now if only I weren't playing in a group with a warlock and two rogues (both melee, but one of them is terrified of...

Once, just once I would like someone to tell me why the old fluff was worthwhile beyond "it's the stuff I remember from my childhood".

It was broken. Your nostalgia just doesn't let you recognize that fact. You! You yourself are the candle in the darkness! That's the whole point! If there's an elder paragon of good next door, why in the hells would you go out and save the world yourself?

Allowing you to have twice the actions as any other player for the cost of a single feat is beyond ridiculous. And I doubt you'd be happy with a cohort that shared your actions.

Yes, it's different than the flavor of previous editions. Why is that such a bad thing?

You're deliberately misunderstanding. It's a book of stats for combat encounters. Stats don't exist in the game world. The Monster Manual isn't a book of "and this exists, and this exists, and this exists and it lives over there in that cave." It is not a coherent or complete list of...

I'm definitely using Firbolg and Spriggans in my upcoming paragon campaign. And the premade higher-level humanoids will definitely get used and reused.

What about Zapp Brannigan? "What makes a good man go neutral? Lust for gold? Power? Or were you just born with a heart full of neutrality?"