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Many of these arguments are the same as far as I can tell. I remember being really excited about 3e and scouring the internet trying to find info. That's how I found Enworld, in fact! But once you hopped onto other forums you saw lots of hate for 3e - it was surprising, because I liked what I...

This is very true! As a DM we have a responsibility to make sure the challenges the party encounters are not too difficult/lethal (unless we want to make an encounter that the party can't complete through combat). Does anyone remember that old 3e adventure The Forge of Fury? I ran it as a DM and...

Just look back at early announcements of the GSL discussed by Rouse - he discusses how the d20 License was not a success and actually bad for the parties involved - it's archived somewhere on this website. I've taken that to mean that it is less restrictive than the d20 license.

And while I can't speak for sales, I will say that 4e is likely to bring in new players where Pathfinder seems unlikely to do the same. As a matter of fact, I haven't purchased a 3.x game product in around 2 years or so, maybe longer. I haven't actively played a d20 game since Fall 2006. When I...

I am really interested in seeing how the GSL plays out. We know that it is more restrictive than the OGL, but less restrictive than the d20 license. That's quite a continuum! We don't know, for example, if people will be able to make new classes or races. They more than likely will get to make...

I think many of those XP values are estimates - likely any fractions will simply round down. My understanding is that the characters were made with 28 pt. buy and that a few are 29 pt. buy by accident (they also have odd numbers that can be easily changed without impacting anything on the rest...

Yeah, I figured that they were supposed to be 28 pt. buy and that the 29's were high (and strangely off with an odd number thrown in there). I imagine humans get a +2 to any two attributes, or a +2 to one physical and one mental - as others have suggested. The Dwarf is either getting a +2 to...

I think the reason they have expanded the definition of "core" goes beyond what is needed to play or even what they want people to purchase. They are making it so that anything, in any of these books, can be used by 3rd parties through the GSL. I hate to crush any hopefuls here, but the Bard...

While we may not have a full write-up (lots of racial feats and powers) for gnomes, they have said that they will be included with the MM with some guides on how to use them as PC's. Bards will be supported - the design team has said this a number of times. They might even be in the PHB (they...

Yeah, like that :o it is a good idea - I hope they move in this direction.

I've read design focused articles that have discussed the problems with skills in D&D. The big one is that, in designing content, you can never know what kind of skills a party is going to have. I believe when Mearls discussed skills in Iron Heroes, he justified skill groups using this...

The Vancian system is a sacred cow, but Wotc has been presenting a number of alternatives to it for years now. Personally, I would like to see a hybrid Vancian system that had a set of abilities usable per encounter or even at will, and a set of "spells" prepared in "spell slots". Let's face it...