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I whipped up a few premade characters for an event this weekend. Until I did, it hasn't sunk in how much PCs are being buffed. All the changes in the playtest packets have been relatively small, but they really add up. Races are stronger. Backgrounds are stronger. Classes are stronger...

My least favorite thing about D&D is waiting half an hour for my turn to come around in combat. So which flavor/branch of D&D has the quickest combat, in your experience? I assume it's some varierty of OSR, but please enlighten me.

Just picked up Heroes of the Fallen Lands and thought it would be fun to give the new powers a spin. So I made it to my local RPGA meeting last night and ran through AGLA 1-5 with a mage: a level 3 wizard built entirely with essentials powers. I choose a human so I could test an extra at-will...

...at least for the Essentials sub-build. Dungeons & Dragons Roleplaying Game Official Home Page - Article (Wizard Preview) Good call. Magic Missile is not worth an at-will slot -- in either its old version or the post-errata version -- but without it, wizards lack a ranged basic attack, and...

Magic Missile is autohit! What's old is new again. Dungeons & Dragons Roleplaying Game Official Home Page - Article (Official D&D Updates) More interesting changes: As suspected, the new damage/hit values from MM3 are here, in table form. Several cleric abilities (Bless, Shield of Faith, and...