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I can just imagine how you will walk into your local RPG shop on release date, pick up ten copies of all handbooks and then proceed to shout at them and smash them against each other. To each his own I guess. Wizards surely won't mind. If you wouldn't love to hate it, you wouldn't be so active...

Dex-Fighters are Rangers or Rogues in 4E. With that in mind, what other class would be typical for elves? Fighters and Paladins? Certainly not. Elves have never been tanks. Wizards and Warlocks? That's what Eladrin are for. Warlords? Elves as military leaders work somewhat, but aren't exactly...

That's something that has bothered me for a while. People throw the term "talent tree" around as if we knew they are in. At first, I strongly supported the idea. Every class would have three or four, and every race one or two sets of abilities, that would all require other abilities of that same...

Most of these minor boni were artifacts anyway. They don't appear in any other fantasy I'm aware of, and even in D&D fantasy they are usually too minor to ever matter. For my groups, they were usually stuff you would write on your character sheet and then forget about. It's hard to imagine that...

Works for me. They get old, are wise, very communal and spiritual. Since the wizardly elves are split off, I have no problem with elf clerics.

By itself it's not much of a problem, I agree. It starts to become a problem if you have a dozen similar auras. Given the insight the designers have shown so far in regards to BAB and ridiculos elven age (which will probably only be widely considered a problem once people see the game work...

Very nice. Glad to see that most of my wishes have come true, i.e. no 1000 year old elves, no easy attack boni (No one wanted to believe me that BAB is evil). Not so glad to see that aura in. By the way, for statements like "Reroll is about +3 or +2 to attack": No, it isn't. The math works very...

Is that supposed to be a counter-argument? Murder is pretty common among default D&D-Heroes, and paladins, the most virtuous among them all, gain bonus LETHAL damage on smite attacks to, yes, explicitly murder their enemies. What's the big difference between something that kills people, and...

You are spot on. And as 3E has TEN classes for evil characters, we can clearly see that 3E favors evil characters. Thankfully 4E will fix that. Well, Tyr tempts paladins to smite enemies with their hammers and swords, to murder them. Yet I don't tink Tyr or paladins are evil.

With 4E supposed emphasis on less, but more powerful attacks, it could actually work if you tie the DR to level. Of course it might be difficult to come up with the correct formula, and there would certainly be balance issues, but perhaps not as many as in 3E.

In terms of age, the aforementioned poll is pretty good proof. Not absolute of course, but you don't get much closer outside of mathematics. As for the "player as a avatar"-attitude: That's speculation, mostly. I thought I had put an "apparently" or "perhaps" before for it, but I was mistaken...

Yeah, I got that covered: Point is, it's rather hard to relate to the saint or the mad mass-murderer, and if a party consists exclusively of either of them, it's hard to have meaningful interaction. This is probably mostly caused by D&D's alignment system which strongly encourages extreme...

There is a reason why in large parts of fantasy, demons and devils are actively concerned with the world, whereas angels are either powerless, corrupted, or mysterious. Celestials are rarely antagonists in D&D, and they shouldn't steal the spotlight from the heroes, so they are usually relegated...

I agree that we probably won't see "good" devils, and certainly no "good" demons, but given that warlocks and tieflings are in (even somewhat too prominently displayed perhaps), it's certaintly seems possible to play a good fiendish-powered character consorting with devils and demons, making...

You gave me false hope - I thought the D4 was going to die. :\

A "darker" setting makes playing heroes more easy and rewarding in my experience. For example, you don't need to be a saintly paragon to be a hero in the Warhammer universe, but you still get a lot more of the underdog vibe than in the classical High Fantasy scenario, where you only need to...

Oh, I've experienced so called TPKs, or indeed character deaths only very, very rarely, and really only when someone or a whole group was getting bored with the characters. In fact, as a DM, I'm probably too lenient, never using Save_or_Die effects for instance. However, judging from the...

As much as I look forward to 4E and critize 3E grognards, in this area I'm apparently a 2E grognard. Social interaction rules always felt odd to me. In my groups we often forgot, after a while on purpose, to roll any dice in social interaction, because it just seems so odd to roll dice in the...

You either have a wise DM, who uses monsters playing to the strength of the group and fudges rolls when things go wrong, or you have a very weird campaign going on. How many challenging monsters can the whole party flee from, especially if you just realize mid-combat that the fight is not going...

Forget it, the Warlord has confirmed healing, so healing by improved morale is definitely in. And I believe it's a good thing, not only is healing more exciting than giving +1 on attack (the whole thrill of healing in time before the guy dies), it also can be done more often in combat. Plus, it...