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Thanks all for the feedback!! @Dias Ex Machina, I downloaded the OGL for Ultramodern and it looks pretty good, so I ordered the hardcover at RPGnow and will probably order Amethyst too. Can they be mixed or are they meant to be played separately?

Did somebody try them? What do you think?

Crunch-wise: 4th Fluff-wise: 2nd (best settings by far) But I'd always take 4th edition to play as I can easily use the fluff from 2e with it.

Pretty much what I would say. Can't XP you (must spread some love first).

Like a short rest? :p

I played 2e for many years using also a lot of rules expansion (Spells & Magic, Skill & Powers, High Level Campaign) and honestly transition to 3e was almost seamless. I can't really see big differences in playstyle, so if someone could point them out it will be very helpful for me.

The more I look at the debates here and on WotC's forum the more I think they should publish 2 different games, like a D&D Classic and a D&D 4.5. I don't really see a way to bridge the gap that works properly for both factions, except maybe that of making a core with classes that only have at...

You know, that's why I think monsters, settings and some NPCs are the only thing that keeps D&D together. By the way, I work and worked with Lamborghini and you nailed down what they are.

I'll go for mechanics. If you have sound mechanics then the rest will follow.

To me the D&D feeling stays mainly in monsters,settings and famous characters. Illithids, kobolds, goblins, orcs, drow, dragons, gelatinous cubes, demons and devils at war against each other,Forgotten Realms, Planescape, Greyhawk, Menzoberranzan, Khelben Blackstaff Arunsun, Bigby, Vecna...

Not really. Somebody being crippled was more or less the only reason to rest.

Actually I see the point and that's why I said "above a certain level". There's a sweet spot (different for each edition) where the game is balanced, wider for 4e and smaller for others. I don't understand you when you say that AD&D casters will not get to 6th level spells. I played AD&D (2nd...

I think you nailed it down. One of my favourite campaign styles is that of the City Guard. PCs are working either in ,or for, the city guard in a big town and have to deal with crimes in the city, going from murders or smuggling to demon summoning or transforming the whole population of the...

Ok. I didn't have the playtest docs at hand so I was not sure. Anyway it's a very limited nova ability compared to what a caster can do.

1, 2, 3, 4 and 7 from your list would be enough to me, but honestly today's L&L article pretty much killed my hopes for D&DN.

You know, I had a similar discussion with Emerikol on WotC's board, but on the DM side. He assumes that's there's an existing world where the PCs are sinked in. The story develops within the world. I am not interested in the world outside of the story. For me the story "creates" the world. For...

Isn't the fighter "nova" ability actually coming from its theme?

You know I think your sentences can help me in explaining why I do not agree in a fairly easy way. To me an ogre skirmisher and a kobold skirmisher will be different because they'll have different powers and will work differently during a combat. By the way I don't want to able to say "ah ha! an...

Why should I put in a lot of meaningless fights only to make up for the shortcomings of the system? I prefer to run less encounters, but meaningful ones (like 4e encounters are, even if longer, as there you can have tactics and so far in DD&N you only have meaningless slaughter).

I guess you don't see the heart of the problem for us (I'm not saying that you are "wrong", only that we perceive a problem that probably isn't there at all for you). The point is that as casters can nova and mundane cannot, all the important encounters will be dominated by casters and all the...