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"Your capacity for maternal disappointment has only just begun to reach it's maximum potential." I love this comic.

Obviously it's not everyone's cup of tea, and if your players prefer battles to end with one side or the other all dead where they fought, more power to them (so long as you also like running that kind of game). That said, it's my opinion that monsters running when the battle goes badly for...

This. It adds verisimilitude if sentient, free-willed bad guys try to bug out when it becomes clear to them that they're going to lose.

Three reasons: 1. Some players really like to play dabblers. Someone with an often very well written and detailed backstory that justifies them knowing a lot about one thing and a little about a few others. Half-elves are a good fit for these kinds of characters since they can borrow a power...

Rules that reflect flavor is a strength of a system, not a weakness. So yeah, I agree. I ran goblins against a 1st level party and had fun using their goblin tactics to flank the PCs as the PCs tried to hit them. 3e goblins were just cannon fodder. They ran at the PCs, hit them a few times...

What makes DnD DnD? Honest question. Most of my immediate gaming circle has pretty soundly rejected the new edition on the basis that "It's not DnD." They then name a few changes that make the game not DnD. Lack of Vancian magic, particular classes not in the core book, alignment changing...

I wholeheartedly agree. Much better to add crappy anime power names in rather than convince people to stop laughing at them long enough to rename everything.

It really depends on what other feats there are. I seem to remember reading on these boards that feats are supposed to enhance existing abilities, and that the feats that opened up new combat maneuvers are mostly class features in 4e. So these feats may stack up to be about even with the other...

Your Mileage May Vary. For what it's worth, the only group I know that still plays DnD of any kind uses minis, and has for as long as I've been gaming with them. It's a mishmash of fantasy minis. I doubt they'll buy anything for the new edition (I'm not sure if they plan to convert, honestly)...

I really, really hope that all the hype is right and that Fighters get to be awesome, and that sword and shield is a strong and viable combat style. What, I like sword and board. Two-handers are fun too, but I'll be thrilled if I can play a sword and shield fighter that's good at what he does...

That's why the idea of hybrids sacrificing effectiveness for versatility doesn't work out. The idea that a hybrid class can be, say, a defender or a striker, but in exchange is not as good at either job as a dedicated defender or striker, will lead to them not having a place in the party. If...

Personally I kinda like that it sounds like playing a character with low Con won't be quite as crippling. It's kinda clever of them when I think about it; low constitution characters will have less long-term staying power or encounter endurance. They'll run out of healing surges faster. But...

I wanna go through all three. I've never had the chance to be in a game where the party legitimately started from scratch and earned their status as great heroes; all the high level games I've played in started at at least 6th. Epic sounds weird. Probably not, say, Rifts weird, but I have a...

Looks fun to me, and not all that complicated. Thanks for posting this was a good read.

I'd been wondering about this myself: Midnight is one of my favorite settings. Ramble incoming, you were warned. As far as a 4e Midnight goes, for starters, I think restricting divine magic to servants of Izrador is an integral part of what makes Midnight Midnight. It's important as a flavor...