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Viva la revolution? I think that it easy to get the impression from the online 4E audience that core really denotes all resources authorized enough to be part of DDI, at least the character builder. The ease of use of this resource makes it much easier to accept new material, balanced or no, as...

There might be a bit more at work here in terms of format. When I collected 2E Dragon, there was a long stretch where articles brought new elements to the game that simply could not be had elsewhere. 3E, being print, continued this to some extent. 4E Dragon might be suffering because of the...

It does seem like there is less and less original content that won't be part of later books. Don't get me wrong: I love getting preview material, and I hope that Wizards uses the feedback to refine content. But Dragon magazine once had lots of original material in previous editions that it...

Yeah, yeah, I like 4E too. But what I'm talking about would go further than anything like a paragon path. In a 4E context, each class would only have 10 levels. A number of them, like fighter, sorcerer, wizard, cleric, rogue and such would have levels 1 to 10. Then, when you enter paragon tier...

This was a really sad thing about prestige classes. It seemed like such a good idea at the time. They were unbalanced, and as fixes for multiclasses or weak classes, they were cumbersome and irritatingly ironic. Of course, Paizo can't go the "flexible cores with customizability" route with...

I'm looking for advice from experienced DMs out there. I hope I've come to the right place. I'm about to begin a campaign for my group of players. A major difference this time is that I have a number of new players (new to the group, that is), and because of this and the change to a new system...

I agree that I don't need the numbers, and I certainly don't have a right to the numbers. They do matter, though. For all it matters to a company it's a success if a product sells out, but it means little to me without a good gauge of what it means in an objective sense. So I suppose the...

Reasons? Perhaps because it would make your report of a sold-out preorder seem like something more than a manufactured piece of marketing? It is hard to avoid this conclusion of course: "We thought we had printed enough to last us at least until the end of this year, but skyrocketing demand...

I agree. The increased number of viable options for every character, as well as the increased number of actions per turn, make 4e characters slightly more difficult to run than a comparable 3e character, excepting 3e spellcasters. How this plays out in my game (and I'm a player!) is the kind...

I have the same kind of problem. I like 4E. It is by far my favorite game to play right now. I loved 3.5E, and I particularly loved what Paizo did with it. For Pathfinder, I like the setting (even if it is a bit too much of a kitchen sink setting for my tastes) and there are so many ideas...

Even though Leeds implies this, your comment is an absurd straw man argument. WotC has a vested interest in having brick and mortar stores doing well with their products, surely. Moreover, Leeds only implies this. Would your cynicism apply equally to other game companies? Have you decried...

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Fault? I'd like to weigh in here because a lot of this is pretty infuriating. WotC is making a terrible decision here; worse, this will only unduly affect those who are already honest, paying customers and consumers of WotC products. That said, the level of fire in this thread seems out of...

Perhaps we could get Mike Mearles, Mike Mearls' Mexican non-union equivalent, to answer other questions.;)