D&D 4E May 2008 - 4E PHB

[danir]

The magic book is actually an arcane book, I made a mistake in translation. (מאגיה)
I would hazard a guess and say that the martial art (or maybe just martial) will be a generic fighter book.
The magic item book might be along the lines of the weapons of legacy book

 

[danir]

wasn't it the Israeli Defense Forces who declared D&D players a security risk?

Allen

That was a non-story
I for one served in infantary, declared my D&D hobby, and we even had a couple of groups in my company - And had no problems whatsoever. So that's an urban myth.
(sorry for going off-topic)

 

[Aloïsius]

Magic Item Book: As well as MIC. But this means DMG will have less?

A few magic items will be in the PHB. The DMG will be very small (228 pages... compare to 3.5 320).

 

[Charwoman Gene]

Okay, it appears those initial books will include -
FR campaign setting
Dragon-related book
Magic item book
Magic book
Martial arts book.

My guess...

Those last three are a book on Arcane, Divine, and Martial Characters.

 

[Zaruthustran]

May??? "C'mon, May!" just doesn't sound right....

Haha! Now *that's* an obscure old-school reference.

 

[DarkWhite]

My guess...

Those last three are a book on Arcane, Divine, and Martial Characters.

Power Sources are an important concept in 4E. The PHB is subtitled "Arcane, Divine and Martial Characters", referring to the first three of these power sources to be detailed for PHB classes. It has been speculated that future PHBs will likely feature other power sources, such as ki or psionics. So I doubt these last three are new books, but simply refer to the PHB.

 

[Shades of Green]

Shalom Danir and Yair; it's great to see someone from around here on these forums

And it's very good news to hear that Silver Stars are going to publish 4E locally - that'll save me 4 or so weeks of overseas surface shipping plus the shipping and handling cost. Are they going to provide the English version of 4E as well or just the Hebrew translation?

Yours,
Omer Golan-Joel, Rehovot