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Unless, upon reading the rulebooks, I find that there is a reason for PCs to know certain things (for example, a power or feat that only works when fighting minions) I see no reason to put info like that into player's hands. Let them guess whether the guys being ordered to attack by a...

If you choose to run "4e" with a few pages of culled-together notes from online instead of waiting for the actual rulebooks, this kind of thing is probably more likely to happen. It seems a lot of people are willing to judge 4e before the books hit... not sure why that is. Then again, some...

I don't doubt that your observations are true in the situations you've encountered, but as an overall truth about the game and people's reactions I can't agree. Some of what you state as fact is your own opinion (3e simply made 2e better), and cannot be used as evidence. My own experiences...

It's perfectly fine, although I have never been a big multiclass fan anyhow. I like that it's more dabbling than taking another class wholesale.

Even action poses get boring if that's all that's ever used. Besides, the Balor was in an intimidating, powerful pose, and the Warforged is in a noble, knightly pose. These are not illustrations for an action story, they are to show us what the creature looks like so we can imagine it doing...

That's the best Warforged I've seen yet, ever. That race has always looked silly and cartoony, but this one is at least closer to something I might use in a game.

I think that's kind of irrelevant, since M&M doesn't get onto nearly as many store shelves as WotC books do. Plus, if they make a Marvel Universe game with 4E rules? Forget about it... no competition at all.

Because everything in D&D is just like Lord of the Rings. You must never leave just to have adventures and make your mark on the world like Conan or hundreds of other fantasy charcters did. ;)

I haven't looked at them. Dungeon and Dragon are pretty useless to me as electronic content rather than magazines I can pick up at the bookstore and read at my leisure in a comfortable place.

I don't see anything wrong with that Balor. I actually like it quite a bit.

It's a surprising look, and that's great. Gnomes have never really fit in well, and I don't expect they will, but this will work as a monster in the MM. I love that 4E is revitalizing D&D by changing things that have been stagnant for so long they have grown boring. They are restoring the...

Amen. I'm amazed anyone still seriously pays attention to what he says. I guess if he says what you want to hear it can give you hope or something... All I can say about Pathfinder beating 4E is that I doubt most D&D players have even heard of Pathfinder (or even know what Paizo is.) The...

It's interesting, but doesn't seem like a very good fit for for D&D. If I were playing D&D purely as a tactical simulation (a wargame, essentially) I think it would work fine. However, for an RPG, the powers do seem to assume a lot about what's going on, and how characters react to the...

I'd absolutely buy 4E no matter what. Having open rules is nice since other companies can have a shot at developing interesting new things for the game, but it's certainly not a deal-breaker.

What's to keep you as DM from ruling that such an obvious stretch in logic doesn't end the hobgoblin's mark for that round? Were you afraid the hobgoblin would feel cheated? :) The DM's job has always included making rulings when the written rules don't cover a situation adequately. I don't...

I don't see a problem with marking per se, although it does seem unnecessary to have rules for this situation. Yeah, it will help keep enemies away from the caster... that's a good tactic, obviously. I just don't see why the player can't say "I'm going to try and draw the monster's attention...

Another retro sheet! It's got a very "3E era" feel to it. ;)