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I can burn $20 on a movie and $60 on a good meal; thus, $14 for a 4e preview book isn't a stretch. I haven't bought any 3.5e material since the announcement of 4e, anyway. I didn't like the 4e art in R&C. Most of the people and creatures looked stubby and elephantine. The crunch was...

I put my 3.5e stuff in the basement next to my OD&D, 1e, 2e, and 3e gear. I've lost interest in 3.5e.

I'd like to see the lurk and/or soulknife built as strikers. The psychic warrior and the egoist could work as defenders. Controllers could be the telepath, shaper, and nomad (or perhaps one class with those three devotions as Bo9s "traditions"). I imagine a psionic leader as a combination of the...

It's just a stopping point. Unbounded systems or rules are difficult to balance.

I think you're right, although it may be trivial to create a "pure caster" cleric by allowing a cleric access to one or more wizard traditions. I think I'll be able to brew up the class I really want by making ranged healing, ranged smite, or shadow traditions. I disagree. The current 4e cleric...

I'm betting a cleric's holy smybol will, effectively, be an implement, meaning a cleric will gain bonuses (or avoid penalties) when casting with a holy symbol. I like cloth-caster style clerics, such as the Guild Wars monk and WoW priest. I think the "holy warrior" role is better filled by the...

I'm hoping the 4e cleric class allows for "cloistered cleric" or "white mage" style characters. I'd like to be able to use the Cleric class to describe followers of a god of Peace, Love, Magic, or Healing, for example.

An ability that can be used once per encounter is roughly the same as an ability that can be used once every 5-10 minutes. In WoW, these are abilities with a "cooldown." Rather than bother tracking seconds and minutes, it's easier to say these abilities can be used once per encounter, since most...

We may end up with Guild Wars or WoW-style arcanists in 4e, such as the necromancer, mesmer, and elementist. I prefer this approach to the swiss-army-mage in 3.5e. I'm just hoping that each variant arcanist will have a sufficiently broad archetype or role, so that it can accomodate various...

I like everything I've heard about 4e. I like the changes to wizards. I was playing through NWN2 yesterday with a high-level wizard. Staff of the magi, staff of power, staff of defense, it's all junk--I already have enoughs pells per day. I want "wizard weapons" that offer bonuses such as +2 DR...

Why don't fighters buy bracers of armor in 3.5e? You can dump ASF if you make magical defenses, such as mage armor, attractive to arcanists but unattractive to martial characters. If mage armor is cheap in terms of opportunity cost to an arcanist, he'll use it. As long as it is expensive as a...

Nay. ASF is unneeded. You can encourage arcanists to avoid heavy armor by providing cheap magical defenses that compare favorably to armor (and shields), such as inertial armor or mage armor. An arcanist with mediocre strength isn't going to bother with the expense, weight, ACP, and speed...

Why don't you drop ASF entirely? It's unnecessary, especially if you already have twilight mithral chain shirts & bucklers in the game.

This thread needs more warrior women.

Here's a female warrior (well, a druid) that looks like she could actually kill someone. I like this kind of art the best.

So this wizard found a scroll of simulacrum worth 7,275 gp instead of a limted wish scroll for 3,775? I think you'd have more fun with a wizard that researched a modified clone spell. You could have multiple copies of the clone (some evil, insane, and/or deformed) running around causing...

Force screen: get a real shield instead. You should have a mithral shirt and a shield at your level. Psionic suggestion: why take this if you have charm and dominate already? Cloud mind: it's weak. If you meet a monster you want to avoid, charm or dominate him instead. Psionic tongues: you...

Wizards can already load up with mithral bucklers +5, twilight mithral chain shirts +5, and +6 dex items without suffering ASF. Psions, psychic rogues, warmages, bards, clerics, druids, warlocks, psychic warriors, and favoured souls, among others, can cast spells while wearning armor, in some...

Since the spell description for Fabricate is vague, I ruled that Fabricate simply takes the place of workers with the appropriate Craft skill and their customary tools. For example, if 10 experts with Craft (stonemasonry) could turn a stone block into a fortress wall, then Fabricate can do it...