PHB3 cover!

[EnglishScribe]

Power Placeholder

The power list is almost certainly a placeholder due to the ordering of the powers. PHB 1 & 2 have the power list in alphabetical order:

Arcane, Divine & Martial

Arcane, Divine & Primal

If the power list on PBH 3 was the final list it would read:

Divine, Primal & Psionic.

 

[Mephistopheles]

I still think it's cool, but I'm a weirdo and think the concept of a butt-kicking librarian slaying monsters with the power of the Dewey Decimal System is really rather amazing.

But I guess I'm strange, so I'm apparently the only one who cares that 4e wizards don't adequately represent that archetype....oh well.

Now that I think about it...my sister is a librarian, and the scale of her response to crimes against books or the defiling of the sanctity of the DDC can be impressive: nothing but dailies and nothing but crits. I may have to concede that the archivist is a viable class concept.

 

[WalterKovacs]

By the time that PH3 drops, there will be 6 arcane classes (counting artificer and swordmage), so they could go with more divine and primal.

Also, with the "death" of ki, they can move some things around. The ki power source likely would have been some kind of subdivision of the monk (like primal sort of sub divided the druid role). So, a divine and primal monklike concept could be possible. Maybe a cloistered cleric type more like a friar tuck type monk, or a sort of "Animal Man" type character that uses anmal themed combat styles, not so much a beast form like the druid, but a kind of animal themed monk.

 

[Ginnel]

Hmm aren't we fairly overly subscribed with hard strong races, I was gonna put tall but Dwarf needed to fit in this section too

Hard strong races: Dragonborn, Half Orc, Dwarf, Warforged, Shifter, Goliath, Minotaur?

Stealthy races: Elf, Shifter, Drow, Halfling, Gith?

Special magical races: Eladrin, Genasi, Gnome, Tiefling, Deva.

Peoplish races: Human. Half Elf

Would possibly put Drow in the magical races section but meh, the Minotaur has glowy eyes I really really really hope this is a class feature

Monks under the psionic power source anyone?



By the by nice spot on the alphabetical order of power sources in previous PHBs I'll quite happily believe that these aren't the confirmed power sources yet, just seems to be a bit weird with the nice symmetry they had going on.

 

[Charwoman Gene]

The minotaur is whatever (though hints strongly at a certain campaign setting...)

What campaign setting?

 

[fba827]

What campaign setting?

I believe minotaurs were featured as a key race in the Dragonlance setting (but I could be remembering wrong).

 

[Charwoman Gene]

I thought about that after I posted. That is probably what they meant, for all it makes no sense to me for them to ever do DL.

 

[Charwoman Gene]

New Setting: Far Realms Influenced?

The next setting is supposed to have a far realms influence. None of the obvious candidates have a clear Far-Realms thing going on. So what is it?

I think it is Dark Sun. Dark Sun rebooted. Dark sun where far realms invasions are behind it all and there is enough wilderness remaining that Primal characters have a lot to do.

 

[Silverblade The Ench]

That cover is awesome
Always liked the gith folk, but minoaturs are much more fun to me than drow and other "in-crowd" races, hehe!

Actually had custom minotaur race in my homebrew, sort of Viking-like folk who loved adventuring for the sheer sake of their lust for life, and they invented the settings main unarmed combat style, so monks actually learned thier skills from the minotaurs.
(Battle-clerics and monks are their "holy" folk, as it were)

Nothing says "Who's yer Daddy?" quite like an 8' tall minotaur grandmaster monk, eh?

now I can have them again in 4th ed, woot!


Dark Sun would be a likely candidate for new setting, I ADORE Dark Sun, along with Spelljammer (see my artwork), but so would Planescape, with PHB3.

However, Dark Sun, for the love of all that's polyhedral do Not DARE add in all the new 4th ed races etc etc, or they'd make it a joke.
Tough luck, githzerai/yanki, drow, dragoborn etc do NOT fit into Dark Sun, the beauty of Dark Sun is that it is *not like most D&D settings*.
Keep it that way or they'd ruin it.

Humans, mul, Athasian half-elves, halflings, elves and dwarves, half-giants and thri-kreen are thr proper PC races for Dark Sun. Live with it.

4th ed rangers (way they are now as a light-armoured striker) and warlords are a great addition to D&D that would fit in perfectly to Dark Sun. Clerics would need tweaking, new powers to reflect the elements.
Druids, hm...

Preserving/defiling could be easily shown by adding a defiling "feat". Defilers *are* more powerful than preservers, they won after all.
Just make defiling = unaligned or evil, add +1 hit/damage -1 saves, for spells, with more defiling feats making it even nastier, but, at the cost that defliers can only cast spells so often as they destroy the very "fuel" for their spells as they cast?

4th ed lends itself very well to the oddities of Dark Sun, IMHO

 

[Klaus]

Maybe Shugenja as a Primal class, Sohei as Divine and Monk (confirmed) as Psionic?

Maybe a ranged Divine striker?