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You've articulated my own thoughts perfectly. Especially with regards to monsters and magic items. I tell myself that there's no way they could have gotten all the good stuff from 3.X, plus new additions, into the first 3 rulebooks. But there's still this feeling that we're not quite there...

This confusion arises from trying to force all the classes into the same set of mechanics. They obviously felt that they needed to keep the wizard's spellbook, and I'm glad they did, but in doing so they took the wizard outside of the framework used to design the other classes. Which indicates...

Breaking news - apparently, you need to have played an edition before you can criticize it! Who'd have guessed? Of course I never played 2E. I just read a blog of a pre-release playtest report, then twisted it to meet my own anti-2E agenda.

Agreed. I've already seen a few threads where people are talking about broken combos and inappropriate powers, and in most cases these things are only appearing after level 20. Yes, a wizard who is approaching demi-god status, fighting the mightiest creatures, and travelling to other planes of...

Comprehend Language is a 1st level ritual in 4E

I suspect that some people do indeed want to have characters that are more powerful than everyone else's. 1E/2E multiclasses were stupidly overpowered. A Fighter/Magic-User would generally be one level lower in each class (i.e. 7/7 in a party of 8th level characters), which was not much of a...

Whereas to you, being open-minded is being able to take almost any piece of text and invent something to dislike about 4E. If so many of your 4E hates hadn't turned out to be purely imaginary, your moral high ground stance might carry some credibility.

Since we know the town grew up around the keep, it probably started off this way. I imagine that it was trade, not considerations of siege defence, which determined the direction of expansion. If you have handling of boat cargo south of the cliffs, it's not long before you start building...

Eloquently put!

That's Paizo's Pathfinder RPG (a.k.a. D&D 3.75E) you're thinking of. The current Alpha 2 release has this rule.

Like Hong said, it's hardly a bad thing to be able to use these skills both in and out of combat. But if you absolutely must have non-combat skills, how about History, Streetwise, and Diplomacy?

I'm curious as to why you decided to add kneeling to the list of combat highlights. Especially when everyone knows the 3.5 rules for kneeling are totally broken. ;)

Incidently, to return to the subject of rituals, the above passage quoted by Hong should help alleviate some concerns.

What are things like Religion, Bluff, and Stealth, if not non-combat skills?

It's been a long time since I owned the Mystara Gazetteer series, but some of those classes could be turned into base classes or paragon paths. My memory is a bit hazy, but here goes: GAZ1: GAZ2: Desert Mystic GAZ3: 7 Secret Crafts (as was already mentioned, these would make great paragon...

Yeah, best of the X modules! :) I will probably convert those monsters to 4E myself if they aren't included. I would also like to see the Spoon of Stirring from AD&D.

Started out at 8 or 9 out of 10. Then lost interest when they released the healing rules, the marking mechanic, the warlord info, and some other stuff (like the fact that defences are affected by a choice of 2 attributes). Probably down to 5. Back up to 7 after seeing paragon paths and...

Agreed, the way the whole thing is shaped to bring the campaign to a suitably epic conclusion, together with the promise of some kind of immortality, seems quite satisfying.

The actual quote was "They acquire magic items quickly, though, and might even fill their available item slots by 10th level." which doesn't carry the same meaning at all. It seems to me like there's going to be quite a bit of flexibility with regards to magic item acquisition.

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