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JohnSnow- I totally appreciate the fact that gaming groups breakdown all the time for real life reasons, it has happened to me over the years. I guess the crux of my point was that I'd far rather simply give up the hobby rather than play with infuriating people with a sense of entitlement that...

Yea, halflings are sad and dull and remind me of death.

I can't help but think from reading his posts that Aria's gaming group must likely consist of his enemies. Isn't the point of D&D that it's something you can play with your friends? If it ever came down to me having to go down to the local gaming store and having to pick up a few hobos off the...

Very exciting Thalmin, I'd definitely show up if I didn't live in CA, but the flight is probably prohibitively expensive for a quick preview! Obviously no one is expecting you to memorize anything particularly specific in the time you'll have access, but I want to second the request for some...

Having run a few demos of 4E for my campaign group, I can tell you that even at level 1 the characters don't play excessively similarly. Characters sharing roles obviously do suffer from overlap, but I have the feeling this will become increasingly alleviated as you reach higher levels and...

Yea, probably my least favorite art I've seen out of 4E. I mean, its basically a minor annoyance and totally unimportant in the grand scheme of things... BUT WHY, dear God WHY does it have a mouth? I mean its a freaking bloodsucking mosquito-o-death. Simply removing the pupils and mouth would...

The great irony here of course is that it isn't like Hill Giants did anything other than swing their club and throw rocks at things in 3.x. I mean, this isn't exactly a step backwards. As far as Titans go, yea, the preview one is a little dissapointing for sure. But, I imagine that the most...

I'm not sure why you'd do this. It would make Kobold Minions level 9, and before that, they would be hellaciously hard to hit and would barely miss. The idea behind minion design is that they are appropriate for the level you encounter them, not that you miss them 70% of the time... that's just...

Because Fireballs in D&D (or basically anything in D&D) always matched anything close to any sort of real life physics. I'm pretty sure that being near the spot a giant orb of explosive death occurs is always more dangerous than being on the absolute outskirts, but D&D never modeled that. We...

I just have to compliment the OP and those that have made attempts on a very cool and innovate use of the skill challenge. A fun read, and as someone else mentioned, could easily be an inspiration for an adventure!

These are far more legitimate fears than anything presented in this thread, imo =/

And as many people apparently fail to see, this is exactly what DM's are for. Playing exactly within the rules all the time gets exceedingly tiresome. Probably because all your players have to do is learn to read a set of not-particularly complicated rules to be the master of all at their...

I'm not really sure what the big issue here is. You shouldn't let your players know they are fighting minions. You should describe a missed encounter/daily with on-miss damage as "scorching/injuring/whatever" on the minion, so as to not obviously give away their minion status. Hey, you should...

A wizard pulling out a crossbow after running out of magic was perhaps the most vile thing in any past edition. Well, other than what happened when Wizards didn't need their crossbows anymore and became one-man-parties.

The hilarious irony in the whole two weapon combat thing is.... You can't use two-weapon fighting without a feat (and really, to be effective at higher levels its painfully restricted to the improved/greater two-weapon feats that also force a high-dex build upon you) in 3.x. I mean, yea...

Cool preview, obviously just a small taste of a few things, but I guess now we now what a MM entry looks like. I like.

Im glad that you enjoyed your playtest, always fun to read a writeup. In regards to your question, the only penalty for firing at melee is that you recieve attacks of opportunity from any adjacent enemies. However, seeing as you can use your move action for a 5' (one square) shift that doesn't...

You have to take into consideration that characters are generally making only 1 attack per round in 4E. That alone makes +2 damage significantly less valuable, not even taking into account higher hp totals across the board.

Actually, you are making an assumption that I believe to be incorrect. You can only retrain 1 feat per level, hence why you can only have 7 Paragon Feats at level 14. Once you hit paragon tier at 11, and then 12, 13, 14 you retrain a heroic feat into a paragon feat. This does not necessarily...

Maybe they get to choose which race they are a Half-Elf with. Dragonborn-Elf ftw? heh.