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I'm all over 4e like a hooker on a Russian oligarch. I think the guys at WotC are smart gamers who spend their days thinking about D&D and their nights thinking about D&D. I'm totally confident that it will be a better game than 3e, and have no problem forking over the dough (since I'm usually...

QFT. I ran a 3e FR game that included Elminster as a wizard 4 / expert 6 with a fantastic PR lady as a cohort. "Elminster! Chosen of Mystra! He's an Archmage!"

I tend to agree that new gamers could use at least a heads-up as to what is possible with role-playing (not that there is really a right or wrong way to RP), but after reading the thread and thinking it through, I'm not sure its proper place is the PHB. I agree that 3e didn't do enough, but I'm...

Lurking and waiting for its opportunity.

I like that. According to the initial design of the multiverse, only the Gods should have free will, and Devils see their job as putting things to rights. Big campaign reveal #2: The Gods don't shut the Devils down because most of them agree. Religion, therefore, is ultimately the kinder...

The only thing that doesn't feel right for me about the Devils desire to necromantize the whole Prime Material is while it feels crushingly Lawful, it doesn't quite feel Evil enoough. What if part of the horror of undeath is that while the free will is lost, the soul remains present? That...

To address the OP's question, the "Accident of Math" is the part of the game where the 3e rules produce the most satisfying chances for task resolution. It wasn't intended that certain levels would play the best, so it was "an accident." But when you look at *why* the game plays that well at...

^ That would be diabolical! I like the concept, Nfft. One of the great things about "the way things really work" in a D&D world is that it can become a campaign reveal. For me as a player, those glimpses behind the curtain are better than a +4 falchion of appended ability descriptors. The...

Omg, How Did U No?!? R You My Other Dm?

DRAKE DARKNITE IS 137th LEVEL AND ITS ALL LEGITEMATE BECAUSE PIRATECAT INITIALED MY D&D CARACTETR SHEET: DRAKE DE LA DARK IS MY OLDEST AND GREATEST CHARACTER. HE HAS DONE MANY THINGS. HE HAS HAD MANY ADVENTURES. HE HAS BONED MANY HOT D&D CHICKS. HE HAS DEFEATED (A PARTIL LIST): ORCUS...

Everything about them is the opposite! My character boned ALL NINE OF THE SEVEN SISTERS and YOU'RE CHARACTER BONED MORT THE MONEYLENDER TO GET MONEY FOR ALE!!1 MY CKARACHTEDR SENDS SHOCK AND AWE THROUGH THE ORCISH HOARDS WHILE UYOUR CHARACTRE MAKES ORCS SAY "AW, HOW CUTE!!!"!! A POKEM AN...

I have emailed them several times asking this exact question (and showing them my proposal to write a seven-book fantasy series detailing my Oldest And Greatest Character), but they haven't replied yet.

Unfortunately, I don't think 4e will accomodate Drake's character concept.

What about converting PCs? I want to run Drake De La Lanco Negro in Aquerra. And all of his levels are legit-- Piratecat initialed the "43rd" on his character sheet. I wrote Gary Gygax a letter in 1987, and he wrote me back giving me carte blanche to play Drake Darklance in other people's...

Do you not feel that 3e is an better-playing game? I thought it was a huge step forward.

And well you might. That's the way things work in reality. Labeling somethinga as the "4th pillar of D&D," and then having it look 85% likely to be mediocre makes . . . D&D look mediocre. The ideas and concepts behind the web initiative are all very good, but as usual in the electronic realm...

I am convinced you're creative enough to find work-arounds for the more glaring gamist inclusions, and you never know, you might like running a 4e game better. What intrigues me is that they've said they'll address the things in D&D that really try me.

You are as cagey as you are bold, sir. A true samurai.

Your DM lets you befriend unicorns at 14th level? What kind of crazy powergaming are you guys into?!?!?!?

My impression at the time was that it would take the playability fom levels 4-14 and stretch them over 1-30, but there was no mention made of power relative to the game world. My expectation would be that Epic still means what it always has meant in D&D: fighting demons, making deals with...