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Let me end the sentence for you: "[...] that desire a certain atmosphere different of D&D's one" ;) You seem to imply that the Greyhawk setting lacks any atmosphere. I know there're many GH fans (myself included) who'd say something different. Because there are also many published and...

I for one want D&D not as a generic fantasy game rule set (that, to me, would be RuneQuest, or even True20), but a D&D-fantasy game rule set. The thing is, D&D has established a lot of clichés like beholders, mindflayers, prysmatic/metallic/gem dragons, alignments, Xd6-damage fireballs, Vancian...

Maximum Dex wasn't the same as check penalty. Wearing plate mail did hinder you in 3.x I'll bet that in 4E armor will have a "Reflex Penalty" stat.

That's definitely the way I'd go. An ancestry feat for every race would become something much more diverse, with possibilities of half-anything for the ones who want them and, for the ones who don't, just the option to forbid the combinations they didn't see as fitting to their campaigns.

I've been running D&D in a PoL setting (Greyhawk) since I started DMing. Now I'm told that I couldn't do that because I was using an uncool ruleset.

D&D, IMO, isn't Sword & Sorcery, High Fantasy, Low Fantasy or anything else. It's D&D-Fantasy. Farmers becoming godlike heroes, Beholders, Prismatic dragons, spells with very concrete uses... These are things we don't see in fiction, not even in most D&D-related fiction (FR novels et al). In...

I think it's no secret that most of the SoD supporters will be DMs. After all, everybody knows that players are just a bunch of whiners :p

If the fluff of the variants is different enough from the 'core' zombie, I don't see why shouldn't they have different entries. On a side note, I'd love to see a basic zombie stat block alongside a number of 'zombie traits' that could be attached to it depending on the specific zombified...

I liked what I read, but if I see one more "cool" in a Design&Development article, I'm going to cry :\

That's pretty much it. I like the concept of things that could instant-kill a character (SoDs, 20-20-Crits, masssive damage...). I also want the PCs to be able to control their own destiny. So, my option would be to leave SoD as it is, and add a "safeguard" system as my own Last Second Rule...

Or a Disintegrate, which is the most famous example of a SoD turned "Save or take a lot of damage". Not trying to mock or bash anything here, just trying to figure how would the same creature be "translated" to different rulesets and different playstyle assumptions.

Well, then it's a "just die" effect :D

I like SoD effects (and yes, I'm usually the DM :p ), although we use a "last second salvation" rule: when a PC is affected by something that would kill him, if its effects are negated (via magical healing, dispel magic, etc) before that PC's next turn, he is not dead.

That's another story. The description states it's a SoD effect. But, if you don't like SoDs (I recall there are some people who don't ;) ), you could change it to "Save or take a lot of damage". I can imagine 4E designers doing this, because they already told us they were doing it, but it's the...

That's not what the article says. "Balor's eye can emit a cone of damaging energy" is quite different from "Balor's eye could kill anyone it looked upon".

No way we'd see something like this in 4th Ed. Didn't you read the memo? SoD is gone, and "Balor was notable for his one eye, which could kill anyone it looked upon." seems pretty SoD to me... :p

That's the point, actually: some of us would like to see them as much as the other ones. Until now, we have seen 4 covers with a total of 1 demon, 1 dragon, 2 humans and 2 tieflings. No elves, no dwarves, no halfling, not even a goblin or an orc, but 2 tieflings. I can see where the "someone...

In fact, it almost is: Eldarin -> Eladrin

The DnD "trio" of books should be able to be played right from the start. That means a sample town and a sample adventure in the DMG. I and my friends learned to play role-playing games by ourselves. Each one of us bought a bunch of books from several games. RuneQuest had a sample town and a...

- Monsters being constructed in a different way as characters; it's counter-intuitive and a big step back on RPG design, where almost every game treats monsters and characters in the same way. - Per-encounter abilities for everyone; I think it screws the wizard-type players' fun of planning...