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Coming at this issue as a player, I fully expectsome railroading when it's the first session of a new campaign, not to mention the first campaign in a new setting. If there is nothing screaming Plot Hook! for the first session players are just going to look at eachother until someone says 'I go...

I have DMed in the past but... The vast, vast majority of the time I am a player.

And who is to say that the character that solves things by hitting them isn't the one that has lost everything in an instant? One is a character background and the other is a method of problem solving. Having one doesn't exclude the other. So you have played the halfling that reluctantly gets...

PHB 2 or UA PHB 2 or UA I think some of UA's material was better that anything PHB 2 had, but since I am a player I use the stuff out of PHB 2 much, much more. So... PHB 2 it is.

This covers it for me. We had one player play a grappler for a while so we got the rules down fairly well. Then the campaign continued for a few levels and we got to the point where the PC that was made to grapple lost the vast majority of grapples because the critters were large and made to...

I am mostly a player but here is my take on it. As others have said... "Talk" to the DM outside of the game. I say 'talk' in quotes because it may not always be easy to talk to the DM face to face so email may work. And in some cases email may be better. It lets you reread what you have...

Commenting as a player... And admittedly as as someone who didn't read every detail of the last couple of pages (so I appologize if I ask a question that was already answered). I don't like the sound of this last dungeoun. Magic immune golumns and high DR undead? That would put any primary...

That last scratch was just enough to send the fighter down. To let him know "this orc isn't the push over I thought he was going to be." After he snapped out of it (rolled the 20) the fighter woke up and realised that he's actually going to have to start fighting "for real". The fighter then...

And that is exactly how I want it. The 'cinematic' part. Well... I want my PC to kick ass as well. So yeah... that is exactly how I want it.

Honestly? Practically every single session (below level 12 or so). The last time it happened was this past session. And then it happened the last session I was at and the one before that! It happens all the time for our group. Maybe our group is the exception that proves the rule.

That'll teach me to not carefully read all of the options... I should have voted for Unearthed Arcana, but I am not sorry for giving a vote to the PHB2 (so far the only one). Granted, I am a player most of the time and while I adore the Spell Compendium and the Magic Item Compendium I think...

Assuming the NDAs are followed that still won't come up. We know these playtesters liked 4e but we don't really know WHY they liked 4e. We have some vauge aspects but no specifics. Unless they come out after publication and say "I wish they had kept in X" we won't know that this is the case...

I'm with KM on this one. What we now know is that three people outside of WotC like it. None of them were under obligation to say anything so they could have just as easily kept quiet. We don't even know specifics of WHY they like it. Sure, Ari has given it to us in general terms of why he...

Or... you know... what Thirdwizard said. Beat me to the same idea of questions by a few minutes...

I think this is the main point of contention. There are thing slisted in 4e that I will admit are video game based. But not WoW based. Talent Trees: These easily can be traced back to Diablo 2. There could easily be something earlier than that but I don't know what it would be off the top of...

All of the "I am cool" accents I have ever heard at the table (at least from those of the group that don't have a heavy theater experience) have been Arnold or Russian or Romanian. They only last for a session before the jokes of Arnold or The Count or Comrade come in. But to my recollection...

I won't duplicate the debunking of many of these but I do want to add something to this one... I don't play WoW so I know nothing of the Draenei. I saw the take on the character as humerous and the Russian style accent going into the "Kewl Player with a Kewl PC that had a Kewl accent"...

To me it adds up perfectly. In playtesting you want both extremes. This is one of them. Now... if every character in every playtest has every slot filled then there would be a problem. As of now we really have no way to confirm if this is the case or not (people up thread have said there...

I want to see an example ring before I make a final decision but I'm fine with the idea. This isn't the first ability that a character can gain after taking a nap (and leveling up). There are numerous other item slots for the low level abilities. Want to keep your armor nice and shiny? A...

In our group's last campaign we had a new player and the PC was a Warlock. The player wanted to cast spells (understandable) and maybe the level of the campaign was a little tto high at the time (I don't remember the level but it was above 3. Level 6 or 7?) but even that was too much. Too...