Walter / UngeheuerLich / Aegeri - I agree with all three of you! It's a bit like I feel one way (that sub-classes are more elegant and should be done) but I'm also a bit disappointed in not seeing a brand new approach and treatment for new classes that would set things like Shadow and Elemental...
I'm actually a bit disappointed that the preview material is giving the impression there won't be a couple of new Shadow classes. At the moment the Assassin is the only class for the power source, and even the Blackguard is still just a Divine Striker.
Don't get me wrong, I'm fine with the...
As I wrote that post, and I have the catalog at hand, I can tell you that there's not much more information than what I posted. I will be talking about some of the other books from the catalog shortly (hopefully before they're posted on the WotC site).
I'm going to try and get previews of this...
Sorry that my Primal Power preview stuff was mostly done on Twitter, it just turned out to be the easiest way for me to go about it and the character limit certainly helped things not get crazy. I ended up going onto another forum and answering some questions and it QUICKLY got out of control...
Honestly, I ran half of the first floor of the Keep last night with 7 players WITHOUT much scaling up at all and each encounter still lasted a good amount of time. Granted they were 1st level characters going into 2nd level encounters, even the first one with the few goblins took them a little...