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The fact that his twitter handle is @dewalt doesn't make it any easier. Yeah, I'm a big fan of David's, and I look forward to reading more of your coverage as DnD 5E/orwhateverweendupcallingit unfolds. Take care.

Dear Gaming Tonic, The journalist from Forbes who joined your early 5th ed game is David M. Ewalt. Notice the distinct lack of a D at the beginning of his last name. He writes the awesome Metagamer blog at forbes.com. Carry on.

It's very easy. Again, I would take a look at the forums I linked above, but so far, that I'm aware of, people have created "conversion" documents to play the game system in every setting from Mystara to Conan to Firefly. You need to whip up some backgrounds that fit the new world you're going...

Most of the monsters are indeed conversions of monsters that run the gamut of 3.5/pathfinder/4E. Not all have been statted in each system before. Also, a select few (mostly the Midgardian race types) are wholly new, and appearing here for the first time. And yes, it is the first collection...

Azgulor, I'm the author of the Midgard Bestiary that was reviewed on the front page. As a huge fan of the system, I'll try to offer some explanations, but I highly recommend you spend some time tooling about the Dragon Age page at Green Ronin. you'll especially want to read through the three...

Neuroglyph, Hi, and thanks for the great review. I'm glad you liked what you saw in the Bestiary. Putting it together was really a labor of love, and I think its release shows how committed the folks at Kobold Quarterly are to supporting the AGE system, which has become the game of choice for...

Mike Mearls ruined blogging!

Does 4E even use percentile dice anymore? I've not seen it anywhere. In fact, no percentile dice are displayed in the PHB1 page 8, or the HotFL page 14. Maybe they just don't want new players to open their new dice bag and ask "What the **** do I use this for? It's not even in the book!";)

When making comparisons between the Slayer and the Thief, also remember that the Slayer can start with much better armor (while still having high DEX, on average, because of the bonus damage with DEX) and also starts with more hitpoints and healing surges. Sure those things don't help it hit...

Having read through other people's experiences both here and on other threads, I think it's safe to say our DM went easy on us. I mean, only one character died on the last battle. I'm reading about a lot of TPKs.

I also played Ander the thief in the Game Day I just got back from. We had a blast. We also lost one of our players, the cleric, to the Dragon. He was tough! OnlineDM described the opening of that fight dead on, and it was scary! Yeah, I never found a use for the wall-climbing ability in that...

It is once a turn and it's awesome!

It does not directly. It sorta infers it by saying, "Two such domains -- storm and sun-- are summarized below." But it doesn't mention that there are others or that there will be others in upcoming books.

As has been mentioned before, Storm is more attacking powers and Sun more protective powers. Here's some good fluff from the Storm section: "Kord is the god of storms. A mighty warrior who revels in strong drink, he is moody and prone to anger, laughter and gloom in equal measure. He expects his...

This is correct. In the character creation section it presents three options for determining ability scores. "Balanced": 16, 14, 14, 11, 10, 10. "Specialist": 18, 14, 11, 10, 10, 8. And "Dual Specialist": 16, 16, 12, 11, 11, 8. However, it also says that there are "other options" presented in...

If you mean Holy Cleansing, the 4th level Cleric Class Feature, yes it is a cure disease/remove curse mechanic. It's a daily utility power. close burst 5. you or one ally. Target makes a saving throw with +5 power bonus on each effect a save can end. If diseased, target can spend a healing surge...

So I finally picked up a copy of this and the Rules Compendium this afternoon at my FLGS. First, these books are hefty. I hadn't heard anyone say that before. They feel like they weigh as much as a PHB hardback. Well built, the spines of my books betray none of the weaknesses that we saw in...

A Tiefling fighter. :p

Interestingly, someone has already made a fan version of the sheet in google docs with a place for the passive scores cribbed in above the Character Notes section. Here's a link to the WotC forum thread where it's mentioned. New sheet is linked in fourth post.

I really like the new sheet, too. My favorite part is that the skills are broken up under the appropriate attribute entries. I also am glad they added a little fluff underneath many of the categories to give new players a heads up what most of the terms/items mean for your character. I do have...