Search results

Hooray for 4e zombies! They sound way more fun than 3e zombies.

My girlfriend and I are actually getting the Dungeon Survival Guide because in actuality, it's a coffee table book, and while she keeps any number of coffee table books in the living room, I didn't have any. Soon, I will. Many of our guests are D&D gamers, and we're both gamers ourselves, so we...

My Top Five List of Towns it "Could be" 1) Hommlet 2) The Keep on the Borderlands 3) Silverymoon 4) The City of Greyhawk (Okay, just my personal pipe-dream) 5) Darokin City (Again, a personal pipe-dream.)

Well, it's obvious none of you have ever studied/worked in marketing. In order to create a buzz about something, you toss little snippets out at a time. That's what they're doing with the next installment of Batman. "The Dark Knight" is being put forward with a series of cryptic messages and...

Sorcerers, Bards, Barbarians, Druids, and Monks, as far as I've heard, will not be included in the first PHB, but will show up in later installments. Don't lose hope. You'll still be able to get your bards and such. Hell, I remember a time when you had to be a bunch of other classes before you...

Well said, Vigilance. *hoists a stein to you*

Well, it's obvious none of you have ever studied/worked in marketing. In order to create a buzz about something, you toss little snippets out at a time. That's what they're doing with the next installment of Batman. "The Dark Knight" is being put forward with a series of cryptic messages and...

I enjoy having alignment in my game, mostly because if I don't, the players turn into hideously immoral mercenaries. For example, in the Star Wars roleplaying game (not Saga Edition- haven't had a chance to get to it...), they took it upon themselves to round up a group of Ewoks (just because...

They aren't ditching alignment. It's going to be changed a bit, but it's staying. Warlocks in 3.5 aren't "evil only". Neither are Dread Necromancers or Archivists (Heroes of Horror), though they're pretty "dark themed" as well. "Dark themed" doesn't mean "evil". Don't mix the two up. Warlocks...

I view creatures like Gwynharwyf to be "feral" in nature. But really, a warlock can (and will, I'm sure) be able to follow other powers beyond the fiend/shadow/feral groupings. In my 3.5 campaign, the party warlock fell in love with the party paladin (played, unsurprisingly, by a husband and...

Not all tieflings have horns. Tieflings are as varied and odd-looking as the fiends whose blood flows in their veins. If you recall Haer'Dalis from Baldur's Gate 2 or Annah from Planescape: Torment, both of them were tieflings. Haer'Dalis had wierd slits in his chin, copper skin and blue hair...

Personally, I think Warlock could end up being one of the most roleplaying-rich classes in 4th edition. While tieflings have the advantage in this area (the blood of fiends runs in their veins, so they might be like the mutants of "X-Men"... shunned by a society they endeavor to protect), a...

The Realms will endure, as they always have. It's a trademark of the Forgotten Realms to go through world changing events every so often (Time of Troubles? Bane's resurrection? Mystryl's destruction?), and the whole Spellplague thing is just another one of these changes. It's kind of like...

Well, there's this whole group of guys who work at WotC called "marketing". If they figured it was a wise decision to announce 4e when they did, then that's their call. It's not like the videos and announcements at GenCon were suddenly conjured up out of nowhere. This was a decision made...

Well, the Marshal class (as seen in the Miniature's Handbook) is likely what the Warlord class has evolved from. I think "warlord" is perfectly okay, but if you're scrambling for alternatives, I'd just stick with Marshal.

I think it'll be about as easy to convert between older editions and 4e as it was to 3e.

Whether you like it or not, the Forgotten Realms are the Forgotten Realms, and whether you consider them to be canon is irrelevant. They are canon, and that's all there is to it.

I actually enjoy the idea that there aren't a lot of uber-powerful characters running around, slinging world breaking spells about. In my own setting, the player's characters have become the high-level NPCs, and now, as the new edition is coming up, we're already working and preparing to make it...

I have a feeling it'll be about the same, as in you'll be facing roughly the same sort of threats at level 30 in 4e as you faced at level 30 in 3e, 2e, and 1e.

Well, I've been playing D&D since 2nd Edition was at it's height. I bought a ton of books for that edition, as well as a bunch of 1st edition books simply for the nostalgia. I bought about 3/4 books throughout the run of 3rd edition. I counted it up, and I've got over 60 D&D books, as well as...