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Ascending math is one of the worst elements of any game, and should be completely removed, with more options and abilities being added as time goes on. I honestly have to help more people with the math than any other element of an RPG in my games, and still consider dropping 4th edition and...

Or (in the case the poster you were responding to) someone who had never seen an elephant in his life, but had read Lord of the Rings and heard of Oliphants and, based off of that description, knew, just knew, what an elephant looked like and he'd be damned if anyone told him different.

I would like to hit epic tier in my current game, but that's probably not going to happen. We're level 6 right now, and that's after almost 5 months of gaming. By the time this semester ends we'll be around 12th level, and since we're undergrads we get a month to three month breaks from the...

Except that if 4th is played as written everyone knows that their skill checks can make up powers in combat, which makes the system extremely friendly to new people. Eventually players that I introduce "RAW 4th" to realize that the powers are very useful as back-ups, and treat them as such...

Actual book support for the Runepriest and the Seeker, please. Some of us don't use Insider, and would like to have access to that material. This is going to sound silly, but rules for putting sci-fi-ish weapons into D&D games. I've always been interested in running a Final Fantasy-ish world...

It's something completely new, so we can rule out cards. They've done a steampunk-ish setting (Eberron), "classical" fantasy (Faerun), "apocalyptic" fantasy (Dark Sun)... maybe something Final Fantasy-ish, where magic and tech get fused? There could be some interesting mechanics developed for a...

So are the Climb rules Mearls talked about and the scaling levels of complexity, if we go by your definition. I have this unshakable feeling that we're saying "poh-tay-toh" and "poh-tah-toh". To all you people who can actually spell dictionary sounding out things, my deepest apologies. Heroes...

Hey, watch it dude. You're giving the mutants and trolls a bad name there ;)

No, because Mearls's definition includes scaling levels of complexity that can be added in or excised as seen fit. The Shadowfell Boxed Set and the Fortune Cards introduce different levels of complexity, as does Essentials (as Nyronus points out). Wizards has already gotten us into this model.

The Shadowfell boxed set and the Heroes of Shadow Book fit his definition of modular to a T, however. They're add-ons that change your game in a very fundamental way but yet are not "core", like a PHB or a Campaign setting.

Well if they didn't have ideas for the next edition what sort of designers would they be? On the level of "what if" I agree. But I doubt they have any serious plans in place beyond the ruminations of any normal creative person. As for leaked 5e stuff, I haven't heard any news at all. I'd like...

I was just linking things up with what Mearls is currently talking about, which are options as well.

So I was on one of the Legends and Lore threads when the following kind of dawned upon me. If this had dawned upon everyone else then you all have laughing rights at me, which I gladly sign over. Mr. Mearls has been talking about how he wants the game to be modular, correct? That's been the...

On further remembrance, my players and I used some stuff, but never more than one source book at a time, two at the most (assuming someone didn't want to munchkin the game). The only book that got extensive time at my table was Tome of Battle, and that was very late in 3.5's lifespan. Even so, I...

Not that I could do something more competent than ride my bike during the time of 2nd edition, but isn't that a bit of an overstatement? From what I heard 2nd Edition was a deadland in the latter years. TSR had effectively abandoned DnD. And to be honest with the quality of the of stuff that's...

I can respect that.

But given how you can play Ravenloft in spirit without the name, is that even a bad thing?

Why would they do a new edition? The quality of their products have actually gone up in the last few months. They have asked more questions about how to improve their product than they have in my recent memory, 3rd or 4th edition. That's not the sign of someone trying to cut ties and run. That's...

Yeah, it sounds like you could run a Ravenloft in everything but name in a 4e game at this point, particularly with the Despair deck and the creative use of healing surge loss.

Do you like playing with the people that much? You could try to get your email out to the players again. I mean, what's the worst that can happen?