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If by "anime elements," you mean per encounter or per day abilities that actually make sword-swinging more interesting, then yes, I think D&D could use more of this. The classes in Bo9S actually make warriors in light or medium armor that move quickly about the battlefield viable characters, as...

Every edition changes core races and classes. 2E didn't have assassins, barbarians, or monks at the beginning, but it had bards as a base class. 3E put barbarians and monks back in and added sorcerers. 2E didn't have half-orcs, and non-human races could only advance so far in different...

Help for someone whose only known D&D since early 90's... What does BECMI mean?

It would be drastic if these ideas hadn't already been in use as options. As my DM accurately predicted -a while ago- many of the supplements released up to now were previews (or testing grounds) for 4E. I can't speak to ToM, but Bo9S has been very popular (many characters in D&D games on...

Are there too many changes? Fluff- yes (but there are other places to rant on this). Crunch- no. There are changes, but some will make things so much better than they are now. 3E claimed that it was going to bring more options for characters. And in a way it did, but many of those options...

While I don't have a problem with Torm replacing Tyr, per se, as I've always liked Torm more than Tyr (not that you couldn't guess that from my avatar :) ), it's another detail that has to be explained away. If they're trying to get rid of any and all "interloper deities," that would also get...

Thanks for everything so far. I don't know that I want to make up new maneuvers, but that doesn't really bother me since I wouldn't likely do "Epic Maneuver Initiating" or whatever it would be called anyway- I never liked the rules for Epic Spellcasting and this would have to be something like...

In a game I'm (hopefully) going to join soon, I'm looking to make a 30th level Swordsage with levels in Master of Nine from Tome of Battle. However, I'm not sure how to take the Swordsage epic since there are no set parameters. How would I increase abilities beyond level 20 (or really level...

Illumians maybe? This would give a human "option" along with your "standard" human. I also thought I saw something on their inclusion in 4E somewhere. I don't know that drow would count as a separate race from elves, and while I would like other elf options (such as wild, wood, and...

I agree with you. Unfortunately, with FR being novel-driven, we need to assume that stories of some sort will be used to explain the changes. I was just offering an alternative that could be used in place of the massively board-sweeping narrative that WotC is using.

OK. I will concede your literary analogies (the three I mentioned were the first few that came into my head, probably remembering the earlier comparison of the Moonshaes to Earthsea), if you will concede that, with maybe the exception of Lieber, the influences for the Realms are not quite the...

3rd Edition FR addressed all that, without needing to be redone "from the ground up." a) Not a problem. Ed (via Volo and Elminster) had always hinted that there were ways to make magic items in FR without sacking ability points. Quite possibly, that's what WotC used when they came up with...

I'm not quite sure why people think they are "Eberronising" FR. In terms of flavor, are they introducing steampunk or world-spanning houses marked by some ancestral power? In terms of mechanics, what does Eberron do besides action points (which can be used in any campaign thanks to Unearthed...

I'd imagine such is the case. And so if they didn't print game material, all rights would revert back to Ed? And this would be bad because... ;) If you look at the comments on FR's development of plot and direction, some of the first people they talked to were the novelists. My guess is...

I don't know that they wanted to retire the Realms- Eberron has a lot of things (like the quasi-steampunk elements) that are fringe in the Realms. I would guess they wanted a setting to go along with the Realms that had a very different feel. Eberron= modern fiction genres (pulp adventure...

I was thinking about this while looking at the various FR threads, and especially Rich Baker's comments yesterday. I understand his feelings about the criticism to FR, but if he thinks the issue is that fans don't want 4E rules imposed on the setting, he's not listening. No one (or, at least...

R.A. Salvatore's novels may have been best-sellers or come close, but have any other Realms novels done so? Also, I think they knew the problem with novel-driven settings, as well as small settings. Ansalon of Krynn just is not very big, and the novels pretty much covered every corner. Then...

Hm. I wonder then, assuming you're correct, if the novels were an afterthought? Again, potentially spurred by the success of Dragonlance? I remember the original cover text to "Darkwalker on Moonshae" touting this as being from the same company who brought us the New York Times Best-Selling...

I think there's another factor to consider with the Realms novels: how many non-gamers read Realms novels? When the Realms first came out, it was hot on the heals of Dragonlance, which was selling novels left and right(as the New York Times Best-Seller list attests, and since the PHB has...

1) Assuming that, of the 20, half of these are tied to Mystra (the Sisters, Elminster, Khelben, the Magister), there are threats that they aren't aloud to address because they deal with the evolution of magic. In fact, not only can they stop such threats, they may have to prevent others from...