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Unless the club has been transformed into a mighty weapon of DOOM(tm) in this edition, I cant think of any mechanical advantage it would have over a light blade. Nor a hammer or handaxe (longtime favorite of dwarven rogues everywhere).. It's mainly a fluff thing really, and it seems very...

I find it quite problematic too.. Imo another omen of the apparent lack of class flexibility, is the "rogue weapon talent" part.. +1 to hit with daggers and a die-increase on shuriken. Any non-dagger wielding rogue will apparently be mechanically inferior to one who uses a dagger.. Isnt that...

Really, really like it! Except for the (to me) silly and arbitrary weapon restrictions on the various powers (and sneak attack).

Yeah, dont think any of them are replicas of the Bo9S stuff.. But some of it is similar, like the "Crimson edge" ability, deals damage and gives you "combat advantage".. That's sorta like a maneuver from Bo9S (except from the ongoing damage thing).. A couple of those maneuvers would leave the...

Meh.. Blowing a feat (whether or not they're actually as precious in 4e as they are in 3e) on changing something as minor as the weapon used just seems silly to me (while further making the non-tradional archetype even more mechanically inferior). The main point I'm trying to make, is that to me...

Well, there's Fafhrd for one.. Others too imo, but really... It's not about the greatsword, it's about the (seemingly) very specific role (well, two I guess) offered as playable with the mechanics of the class. It could be a spear wielding guy, how about someone with a mace or club? I guess if...

Man, I really really like this stuff.. Looks like 4e is going to be awesome! Few things that annoy me though.. I really dislike the weapon specific requirements on the powers and class abilities.. "light blade". What if someone wants to play a slightly non-iconic rogue'ish guy? Like a hulking...

Well, if the skills work like thet do in SAGA, they're kinda different now (which I believe was hinted at somewhere).. That he has the skills on his write-up means alot in itself. For example, you can do a jump check for distance with acrobatics untrained (whether it's on your sheet or not), but...

I'm a fairly old-school (quasi old-school atleast, some 16 years of ongoing campaigns) and I really like this write-up. Imo, one of the more iconic traits of the realms is change - cataclysmic change.. While the ToT was a almost just a little ripple compared to a hundred yearlong cataclysm, the...

Me and my gaming group have been playing in the realms since about 1990 (we've played in alot of different campaign settings as well, but we've always had atleast one FR campaign around), and I'm really looking forward to the changes.. I remember disliking the times of troubles, killing off...

I think I'll try my hand at a hafling warlock :) Barge-owning (eventually anyway) gypsy, semi-legit merchant warlocky type person.. Not sure what I'll align him to, need to read the fluff first.. Probably not feywild though. Also, I'll probably try an eldadrin druid (if druids are in the book).

I really dont think the new fluff for haflings makes them into kender. The new hafling fluff seems much more serious to me, than kender were, also less cleptomanic, less fearless and so on. If they resemble kender, they resemble kender but without being seriously annoying, which was like the...

Nice fluff imo. I especially like the haflings gypsy'ish, river-barge wanderers thing.. Very nifty, and for some reason it just seems very fitting with how I think halfings should be. Dragonborn as a nomadic mercenary race sounds good too, I think they're a much better fit for that role than...

I wouldnt mind if wizard produced a anime themed setting, at all. That said, I loathe anime. I think almost all of it is poorly done (from an artistic point of view) I think most of them are unintentionally comical (some are probably intentionally comical, but then imo it stops being funny)...

I really like the idea of implements. Except the effing' wand... I loathe the wand. Yeah, I know it's a bit juvenile, but it's just too 'harry' for me. Fireballum mortum! *ZAAAAAP*, nix the wand, gief tome plz! I really hope warlock will be able to summon stuff, if it's gone from wizards.. Even...

Hm, first thing I've heard about 4e that has me somewhat worried. I considered it one of the coolest things about 3e, that feats made untraditional character options widely available. Cleric archer? Sure. Mobile, spring attacking, dual-wielding dex-based fighter? Yep. Melee oriented duird...

I like having rules and suggestions for story (and quest) exp in the DMG, also the quest card thing might be handy for some. Personally, I vastly prefer using in-game handouts.. Like a note or a piece of a journal, a wanted poster, and such, and let the players themselves figure out what the...

I've always despised wizards/tsr for caving to the soccer-mom and Christian right lobby, back when they changed devils/demons to the baatezu/tanari (and all the other stuff they changed in that respect). The 'evil' (demonic or similar) stuff, has always been part of the fantasy genre (from...

Yeah, seems like warforged are out.. I think it was Rich Baker who said that the all races in the phb, will also be part the forgotten realms setting (something about the core books, really being 'core' and everything from them would work in the various settings, I assume that means everything...