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IIRC, the NDA WotC made playtesters sign forbade them from even telling they were playtesters...

I'd really like that. One setting, one book. Maybe one or two settings would get additional material (bets on FR, maybe Eberron). It's not a good idea for a company to try to sell too many different, competing products. As it's been said before on this thred, it means dilluting efforts. 3E has...

2008: Forgotten Realms 2009: Eberron 2010: "4E is unfun an fundamentally flawed. We're releasing 5E in a few months" :D

I didn't say "you can't make two different tiefling warloks". I said "if you make more than one different tiefling warlock, the second one will be a stretched concept". An that's what has happened.

I'm quite confident they didn't meant that, but it's what's implied by the fluff. The warlock concept is that of a baseline evil character. Of couse many people will want to play a warlock, because those dark powers and internal angst are just so cool. And they'll want to be heroes, because...

No one of us have it yet, but the preview is very specific on that matter.

But the Sorcerer description doesn't say explicitly that he gets powers by doing something that their dragon blood desires. The Warlock description, on the other hand, estates that he gains new powers as a reward from his fiendish master for sending marked opponents to their afterlife reward.

I'm not confusing anything. Becoming a Warlock (taking first level as a Warlock) is the equivalent in-game as making a pact with a fiend. Taking further levels as a Warlock means keeping oneself true with that pact and doing things in favor of that fiend ('sending marked souls to their afterlife...

One thing is to target the marketing for ages 12 and up and another one is to create a product suitable for ages 12 and up. Ask the cigarette companies about it ;) It doesn't make ambiguous or conflicted characters: it makes cool and dark characters. If they go that way, they should get rid...

Why doesn't he multiclass, then? The 'Boon of souls' ability hinted on its preview doesn't fit very well with this. Those two, I see more factible. OK, maybe "two" was exaggerating, but "guy who gets magic powers making a pact with a fiend and gets rewards as he kills those the fiend doesn't...

Everytime someone has to explain a joke, a fairy dies. Do you really want that to happen? :P

Oh, but that's so anime :D

Not everyone, but yes, there are some classes/races which are so 'full of fluff' that they almost come with their concept. Paladin, Warlock and Monk are, maybe, the fluffiest ones. Am I assuming too much when I say the warlock is meant to be an "evil sorcerer-like" class, the tiefling a "demon...

Good one, mechanic-wise. Stretched on alignment. This one is wasting his main weapon. A warlock who doesn't use its eldritch blast is like a pacifist fighter or an atheistic cleric: good for oddballers who want to play the handicapped character, silly characters mechanic-wise. I don't see...

I'm totally proposing that spell to my players next session :) Cantrip Universal Level: All spell casting classes 1 Components: V, S Casting time: 1 swift action Range: personal Target: you Duration: 1 hour/level You can cast any 0-level spell you are able to cast (i.e. you have...

I actually like the D&D ethics, where your goody-doer can kill baby orcs without remorse just because "they are evil" and those kind of extremes. On the other hand, I wouldn't mind if they dropped alignments on 4E. It's an easy thing to rule back in.

I think the warlock has a place in D&D's core classes, at least under my own personal classification of them ;) Basic classes: - Fighter - Wizard - Cleric - Thief/Rogue Alignment classes: - Law - Monk - Chaos - Barbarian/Bard - Good - Paladin - Evil - Assassin/Warlock - Neutrality - Druid...

Name two. The second one will be stretched. That doesn't mean "tiefling warlock" is a bad concept. The best (IMO) D&D games are built upon clichés ;)

I partly agree with you on that. And I'd be very happy if 4E streamlined those mechanics enough for it to be able to accomodate as many fantasy flavours as possible. I just wouldn't like that, for them to do that, my preferred style (D&D-fantasy, with all the D&Disms) were ostracised. I'm...

I've been running 3.5 games without miniatures for some time, using a whiteboard and dry-erase markers. It ran smoothly; faster and more intuitive than with a grid and miniatures, actually, and we even played through some rather complicated encounters (a skirmish with 30+ opponents, a royal...