Kobold Avenger
Legend
I think it's very likely that psionics will be in PHB3 as they mentioned they did develop some of those classes for PHB2, but decided to hold them off so they could get the rest of the Arcane, Divine and Primal classes in.
digital insider: Monk in PH3, playtest in May
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JoeGKushner
Adventurer
I'm going against the grain on a few things here.
Monk = Martial Striker.
Two, I'm getting... annoyed at the amount of preview/playtest material we're getting. It's not bad by any means but it's not why I subscribe. In Dragon, I want more magic items, more monsters, more rituals, more locations. I want more stuff like the Bane article. I want more adventures in Dungeon to update old classics. I want to see Dragon bring out some more monster articles like old school Creature Collection.
As opposed to having me playtest or preview some material I'm probably going to buy anyway.
I mean, has anyone playtested one of these classes and decided on that playtest that they WEREN'T going to buy?
Monk = Martial Striker.
Two, I'm getting... annoyed at the amount of preview/playtest material we're getting. It's not bad by any means but it's not why I subscribe. In Dragon, I want more magic items, more monsters, more rituals, more locations. I want more stuff like the Bane article. I want more adventures in Dungeon to update old classics. I want to see Dragon bring out some more monster articles like old school Creature Collection.
As opposed to having me playtest or preview some material I'm probably going to buy anyway.
I mean, has anyone playtested one of these classes and decided on that playtest that they WEREN'T going to buy?
davethegame
Explorer
That was my guess too, and I was told that I was at least 50% wrong.
It's almost gotta be Ki.I actually get the feeling the people who run Dragon/Dungeon want that too, but they're not getting the kinds of submissions they want (or don't have time to review the submissions) and thus are using preview material as filler, to an extent.
But when talking about Dragon mag at NYCC, they called out the Deities and Demigods series as one specifically that they'd love to have more submitted to them, and also the other stuff you're talking about.
Shroomy
Adventurer
That was my guess too, and I was told that I was at least 50% wrong.
I actually get the feeling the people who run Dragon/Dungeon want that too, but they're not getting the kinds of submissions they want (or don't have time to review the submissions) and thus are using preview material as filler, to an extent.
But when talking about Dragon mag at NYCC, they called out the Deities and Demigods series as one specifically that they'd love to have more submitted to them, and also the other stuff you're talking about.
The thing is that they only released extensive preview materials that seemed to shorten Dragon in December and January, which were months when multiple holidays fell on release days (it also coincided with the WotC winter break). Even then, Dragon was only "missing" one article and if I remember correctly, Dungeon had a bump in page count.
Though Chris Youngs promised it in one of his recent editorials, he really needs to get the submission guidelines updated. I mean, how can we submit articles for "Deities & Demigods" if we didn't know it was a series until this month?
Shroomy
Adventurer
BTW, an assassin meta-class and a monk playtest = the awesome. I guess I'm also looking forward to new familiars, but I have to wait until April to see how the system works anyways, so its hard to gather up much enthusiasm for a bunch of new critters (though it does seem to imply that they'll be somewhat differentiated, which is interesting).
chaotix42
First Post
Well, in Dragon we pretty much only get preview material in the Ampersand article. The other previews (sorcerer, invoker, etc.) weren't part of Dragon as far as I can tell, just nice freebies for subscribers. That would put the last full article devoted to preview material at 4 months old (barbarian in #368).
Makes sense to do psionics next spring if they plan to do Dark Sun in the summer / early fall. That would be my guess for the next campaign setting release and this schedule makes a lot of sense.
I'd like to see an Oriental Adventures setting. Not sure if WotC would see that as a whole setting, just one suplement book, or just simply not worth the effort. I would think their would be a big market for that. Would want to do it after the Ki stuff is out there though.
Bringing the monk back makes me extremely happy. Quite probably, happy enough to start playing 4e.
Hellzon
First Post
I'm not so sure. They had to have Martial, Divine and Arcane in PHB1 because the four classics (Fighting-Man, Thief, Priest and Magic-User) belong to those sources. Then the PHB2 gets the same layout because it has to fill out two half-sources.
There's no reason we won't get two sources with four classes each in future PHB:s.
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