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The longest campaign I've ever played in ran from 1st to 20th/ 21st level in four years. It was a tight campaign and very well run, one of the best gaming experiences I've ever had. The release of 4th edition should have no effect whatsoever on the other campaigns I've been involved with. Those...

I think the only real mistake WotC has made in this aspect of the playtesting is allowing Ari and some of the others to make any comments at all. That's clearly opened the door to madness and now that they've seen the results we can be sure that it won't happen again. They were letting people...

I'm of several opinions on this. First, I think that all the material a player needs should be available in the PHB. 3.x having all the magic items and prestige classes in the DMG was a big mistake, I think. Second, the monster manual may be available for everyone to refer to, especially when...

The primary hobbit characters in the books were extraordinary as it was. Very few hobbits, as Tolkien imagined it, were even willing to leave their homes, much less fight. I agree completely with your second point, but I was arguing why WotC don't use Tolkien hobbits. The majority of D&D groups...

Tolkien's hobbits/ halflings are generally uninteresting mechanically for D&D. For all that they're the defacto heroes of both The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, you have to remember that the traits that made them so heroic and successful are not traits that can mechanically be reproduced for...

I didn't make it through every page of the posts, but I thought I'd provide my own opinion for prosperity. While my first reaction is, "So much for waving goodbye to the christmas tree," I've seen some strong arguments posted about the primary slots not being so christmas treey after all. I...

I'd certainly fit in amongst that group. Excited at first, a lot less excited now. And the magic items post certainly didn't help things for me. Still, I'll withhold final judgement until I hold the shiny new book in my hands.

I like the idea of limiting magic item use to power levels of character. Limiting only one type of magic item (aka rings) to cl power level? That strikes me as rather arbitrary and a little silly. I understand and rather like the concept that rings are more powerful than other types of magic...

Given that everything we've heard about 4E states quite definitively that it'll be a at-will, encounter, daily intensive design, I'm thinking that you're not likely to enjoy 4E much at all then. I understand the general concern about the arbitrary nature of the rules and the loss of realism...

I've played FR in the past and though I enjoyed it, I got bored with the setting as it currently exists several years ago. So I'm interested in seeing how the changes play out and would enjoy playing in the setting once again.

I have two thoughts regarding the discussion at hand: Encounter Powers: They're called encounter powers for a reason. If you can just recharge them willy-nilly in the middle of the encounter then you're totally defeating the point. Realism in Recharge Reasoning: This is called fantasy for a...

I agree with those who have said that the new limitations to the SRD is designed to turn attention from something like the hypertext srd to the DI. It makes perfect business sense to do so, and that actually is the first good reason they've given me to consider paying for DI. But as someone...

That's probably the most rational comment regarding Gnomes I've seen thus far. I agree and I salute you, sir.

I think it'll be the Orc. The Orc has been one of the most popular called for Core race since the original mystery race was discussed for the PHB. Now that the Dragonborn has been revealed, they're going to want to go with something popular. FR would be the logical choice for it. It'd fit with...

That in itself doesn't bother me at all. As many others have pointed out, magic items is a part of D&D and fantasy roleplay. And it genuinely is fun to find that stuff. In theory that sounds fine. But is WotC actually going to remove the number of things that do that? For a while they were...

That's my primary concern as well. Coming out with a MIC just a few months after the release of the system really seems like a large step away from "less reliance on magic items." I don't care about the book itself, I don't have to buy it (and probably won't) but I really don't like what that...

My own thoughts based on what we've heard: NO MORE LEVEL DRAIN - Good. I don't mind bad things happening to characters, and I don't mind scary things, but this always struck me as too big a punishment. 3.5 made it less so, but still...it doesn't contribute to the fun of the game for me. NO...

I'm sure there will be magic items in one of the first released books (PHB or DMG). But I kind of wish they weren't going to be. I'm so sick of magic items that I think it'd be fun to actually play some D&D for a while without any. I'll definitely not be picking up the Magic Item Compendium for...

Naturally, it depends on the setting. Eberron does nothing for me so just churning out another setting like that wouldn't earn my dollars. The company doesn't matter, the results do. A PoL campaign setting that is well designed with some interesting non-Eberron or FR (or even Dark Sun really)...

While it's true that they make money, I don't think that this should be a limitation. Honestly, if I were in charge at Wizards and I decided that some big changes either had to be made to FR or it had to be let go, I'd probably have gone with letting it go. Now the first inherent capitalist...