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I agree with you completely. Just because elves and humans can mate true, there is no reason to think any other race can. Human-elf pairings have been in fantasy for a long time, so they aren't going anywhere; they are too far ingrained in way too many stories (though, the could have just said...

Again I am disagreeing. Mathmatically, the Eladrin vs Dragonborn have a 4-point difference, just as the grey elf and the half-orc do. Half-orc is a worse mage than the dwarf, the human, and the halfling in 3E example. The dragonborn is on the same footing as the dwarf, the human, and the...

No, it's not. Before, you had three options: a race that made a good wizard (int bonus), a race that made a pretty good wizard (no int modifier), and a race that just did not do well with wizardry (int penalty). Wizard has made it so no PC race makes for a "not so good" anything. Your race...

I think that they are still making a lot of little changes (names, pluses, what levels things come at), but WotC also realized just how much stock people put into these things. If they gave us a statted out Warlock and then end up switching it before it comes out, even just swapping out some...

But this is exactly what made it easier: no one had an pre-concieved notion as to what Dragonborns should be, what their flavor was, or even what they should look like. The issue with adjusting a pre-existing race is that WotC needs to appease the gnome-lovers and win over the gnome-haters...

This does assume most, if not all, of the Fighter's abilities come from a specific weapon, which seems to go against the axe-specialized Tordeck picks up a polearm and is still able to be awesome, but maybe not quite as awesome example that was given a while ago. I also would not assume all...

If elves were given one niche over the other (magic vs nature), there would have been a lot of complaints about WotC "ruining my view of elves!" but there is enough distinction between the two types to make them very different (they don't want the moon/sun elf difference - races are meant to...

I think a lot of the problem here is that many of the Fighters-should-be-better-archers group are coming from the old description. It does not seem that fighters are the master of all weapons any more. They are the master of meele. Rangers will be the master of archery, and if you don't like...

Did you watch the movies? Did you not see Boromir standing in front of the hobbits hacking down every orc that tried to go past him to get to them? He protected Merry and Pippin by killing everyone! By not letting the orcs by him, by making himself the more deadly opponent, the one they needed...

I think the reason most modules tend to rail-road the adventure is because the writers have absolutely no connection to the PCs, or even the adventure up until the beginning of the module. Because the writer cannot in any way judge what the PCs are like, it's hard to come up with a valid reason...

Quite true! That does seem to be the general trend (it's so hard to let go sometimes when looking at the new rules! It seems natural to want to deny a whole stat like dex under certain circumstances!). It is a big mess to try to subtract out dex rather than apply a static -4. We don't know...

Why would we non-third-party publishers have any news of what might be being passed out by WotC? While an official SRD might not yet exist, the 3rd party pubs might have the same rule-set the playtester have...some might even be assisting with playtesting the rule set, thus allowing them to...

I think he meant attack roll. If your attack fails to hit a 10, didn't get the AoE in the right place at all, and therefore you do no damage. So, if you have +0 attack, you have a 50% chance of completely flubbing the AoE. If you have a +10 attack, you can't fail (thus removing that critical...

AoO on spell casting works for the party as much as it works against the party (since other spell casters don't pull AoO due to concentration/defensive casting). I would imagine, now that I think about it, casting should provoke AoO; it makes the controller's and defender's jobs more important...

But what happens when the dragon's breath burns through your shield? (No, I don't actually want rules on whether dragon's fire will burn through or melt a shield, no matter how much more realistic that makes the game. The last thing I need is my players complaining about all their wrecked...

Was pretty sure I heard somewhere they were taking away casting on the defense because it became so obsolete half-way through a caster's career...I thought they were saying wizards would no longer provoke AoOs from caster, when perhaps they meant that they were removing defensive casting as a...

You use Bilbo as an example...Bilbo left the Shire as the Everyman hobbit (though, Gandalf saw in him something that made him more than the typical hobbit); when he returned, he was much more than the Everyman hobbit. Same with Frodo, Sam, Pippin, and Merry as shown by the Scourging of the...

Thanks for that clarification - knowing nothing of the Star Wars mechanics, I found that an odd assumption to make, but now I see where he was coming from. And I agree, it does make sense that most area of effect spells don't need to hit in order to do some damage, but it also makes sense that...

Curious as to why you think that is the option. If a fireball rolls for an attack, why would a miss = half damage, a hit = full damage, and a crit = extra damage? Even if you are coming from 3e rule-set, there are 3 options: Evasion = no damage, ref save = half damage, failed save is full...

My immediate thought was that the shield gave a bonus to Ref. From what I understand of spells and effects, they attack PCs various defenses, so the dirt burst attacked each PC's Ref. It hit the wizard, rogue, and cleric, but missed the fighter. The rogue was prone, and as already stated...