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From @GeeksDreamGirl twitter, tweeting the seminar happening now on DnDXP: "#ddxp Monte: A #dnd wizard MEANS something. It's diff than Gandalf, or a spellcaster in Skyrim. We are focusing on the feeling of the class." And then they explain how they want to find what make it each...

I believe there was a tweet saying that the seminars would not require a signed NDA.

There are a lot of characters that are called paladins, warlocks, druids, monks and others and they don´t act like they were D&D characters. Does that make D&D wrong? No. The problem is that LotR is not a D&D setting and it never worked as a D&D setting. Ok, you have hobbits (halflings), elfs...

Not really. What Gandalf does during LotR that only a D&D wizard would be able to do, really? He doesn´t use a grimoire. He doesn´t have a familiar. He uses a staff, ok, but a cleric could do that to (depending on his god). And all his spells are (by D&D standards) divine magic. He even uses a...

Actually... we could just call then Warden (or maybe Captain), then? It would satisfy 'My character knows his class and use it as a name' crowd.

Warlords lack a 'solid fantasy archetype'? Really? I can think of a lot of famous characters that look like warlords (medium capable warrior, strategy focused, man-at-arms).

Two cents, Let me remember you that Gandalf wasn´t: a) Human; b) Someone who studied magic at some point; c) Someone that used anything like 'arcane magic', by D&D standards. He was some kind of divine agent that was sent to Middle Earth to help others. He was much closer to some kind of...

It says "is EXPECTED to announce that a new edition is under development, " but as I said, probably is a new edition.

It doesn´t really say 'it´s a new edition', but...

I solved that problem by making small encounters, that I could use whenever the story needed them. And then throwing plots at the players and waiting to see which one they would follow. If they went for plot A, I´d use encounter A. Plot B, encounter B. Worked really well with Dark Sun...

Actually what I mean with 'everything before' is 'different from 3.x'. For people that read those books, the new rules were not a big surprise. For those that never read those, seemed like the design team decided to recreate the game. Trying to put it simple, for me is like this 3e + 4e are the...

And I agree with you on that. But I´m not saying 'you can do everything you did before'. I´m saying that 4e is mostly 3e + supplements with optional rules that many people never read. For them, 4e is really different from everything before. But if you read UA, most Completes, etc, you already...

I actually tried that while Gming 3.0. Never really worked. Magic, classes, rules, they are just too different. Even how the classes interact changed along the years. Pre-3e, it´s fighter = meat shield, spellcaster = glass canon. After 3e, it´s fighters = hireling/sidekick, spellcasters = solo...

I live in Brazil and people are always saying that around here. But most people here never read most 3.x books (they were never translated and most players can´t read in english), so they never read Book of Nine Swords (and had fighters that could do more than full attack all the time), or had a...

Mutants & Masterminds. Easy to learn, effect-based, easy to run. If you like DC, Green Ronin is publishing a new line with this rules and the DC Universe as campaign world. Smallville. Relationship focus, powers are tricks and not the focus, really well written. Marvel Heroic Roleplaying...

Or maybe they just care about their friends. Let´s say I´m a high level wizard. I can fly, teleport, open doors, become invisible, rewrite reality, all that. The guy by my side can open some doors, hide in the dark and some others mundane things, nothing that I couldn´t do by using spells. I...

Bug. There´s an episode of Dragon Ball Z Abridged where, while Goku and the others are fighting, they show all the other characters in Kame´s House. They are silent, waiting and doing nothing. Then someone says something like: 'Hey, remember those times when we travelled around the world with...

The enemy had do to a area dispel. That´s why we tried to never stay close to the cleric. And there are ways to protect yourself from dispel magic. Check Dandu´s link. Optimizers don´t really care about repetion. And the GM tried to counter the PC. And then the player would try to counter the...

About Dispel Magic, yes, the GM started using it a lot. Then the player asked (a) how could be possible that every enemy we found, was able to use Dispel Magic? (b) All the players had magic items, so we would all 'shine' if someone tried to use Detect Magic on us. So why the enemies would...

Yes. Story time: -FR Campaign, The PCs: One cleric, one fighter, one rogue, one barbarian. The campaign ended around 12-13 lvl. The cleric usually used his buffs (with divine metamagic to last for 24 hours), then fight the really tough monsters while we would fight the minions. Once the GM tried...