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There's a shipping option to pick it up at whatever location you want. So you could pre-order it, and when it's available for pickup at the location you pick, you'll get an email and can go get it at the cash registers rather than off the shelf.

It's also possible that WotC simply doesn't have control over release dates with this part of distribution. Chapters might have a list of publishers that they sell sufficient volumes that they actually will pay attention to release dates and if you're not big enough for them to care, if it...

Clark Ashton Smith's Zothique cycle plus D&Disms so all player options are covered. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zothique

I'm rethinking this whole issue. I'm going to have to go through the descriptions again and write down every instance of characters gaining awareness of something through a skill roll and figuring it all out. It looks like you could justify a variety of approaches using the rules and it'll be...

The more I think about it the more reskinning magic as not magic doesn't really work for me either. What will be interesting is how they handle multiclassing and how much the ranger has its wilderness class features front loaded onto level 1. If it ends up being that level 1 is where all the...

My solution to this whole issue is to concentrate on the core of game play. 1) DM describes situation 2) Players describe what their characters do. 3) DM describes results and the new situation So if there's a trap on the ground and they declare that they are just walking right up the...

Of the classes we have seen so far, are there enough class features front loaded at level 1 that anyone who wants a non-magic ranger can take it for a level or two and then switch to multiclassing rogue or fighter? Or have class features been too distributed across all levels? The main issue...

Have we seen a ranger preview? When do they start getting spells? How many spells?

Cool idea. I wouldn't do it, but I imagine there are people out there who see leveling up as integral to the D&D experience, even if they're playing at very high power levels. I figured another 10 levels gives those that want it the ability to level up through a series of levels above the...

The basic PDF mentioned that the ability scores have a hard limit of 30 even for god level beings. So I expect "epic" play will work fine within the existing framework. Another 10 levels for each class and more monsters and spells and things should be good with minimal work.

Each player plays a member of the ruling council of a minor noble house on the border of a great empire. They are on the edge of wild lands with small people groups that they can conquer or negotiate into being part of their lands. There will be monsters and all manner of normal D&D threats...

I'm glad you did. What a fantastic monster section that is. Really evocative. And this female dwarf is the best

Well when you combine it with the ability to choose to knock out when you reduce someone to zero, I can see the boisterous god of drinking taking a punch to the chin, smiling and clocking the guy on the head for 100+ damage and just knocking him out. It reminds me of the old 80s Hercules comics...

It's very interesting that a god like being will end up being an appropriate foe for a party of the highest level characters, while they are still within a bounded range from level 1 characters. I really like that. As long as we don't have a situation where skill DCs and monster stats pretty...