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"Attack of Opportunity." It's a fairly straightforward name, and while the rules surrounding them can sometimes get muddy, the concept makes enough sense. When you try to drink a potion in the middle of a fencing match, you open yourself up to your opponent -- fair enough. And so, for the...

Whoa whoa whoa, you're claiming that people form credible knowledge bases before deciding what they do or don't like and what's good or bad for the world? I need to bring you to Earth sometime.

Out of curiosity, can you use tags in poll options? It'd have been a nice touch to make the third one an Objection! link. Or maybe that'd be too Anime. I dunno.

Sweet tapdancing Christ. Are we really to the point where we complain about assertions so broad as "Dwarves like mountains?" Seriously? Words do not exist for a facepalm so large.

...Except that the post says that they admit that kender were the main inspiration for 3e halflings, and we're getting more of the same. This isn't a change.

I hope this proves to be the case in the final product. It was always annoying to run into feats that fit a character perfectly but had prerequisites that didn't. Combat Reflexes, for instance, has a few neat children that don't really jive with the AoO-monster concept of the parent. It...

This is particularly apt given that the feat's effects aren't anything like 3.5's Shape Spell, instead being more akin to Extraordinary Spell Aim (which also won't work as a feat name now that Spells involve attack rolls, or whatever we end up calling them). It brings back shades of some of...

I didn't think about it at first, but it is nice to see Wisdom showing up for Wizards. Given that they're usually presented wise-but-frail sages, 3e's Int-Con-Dex focus was more than a bit annoying. Here's to hoping that they tend towards using all of the mental stats at least a smidgen.

Heh heh. You literally get to choose your destiny. I wonder if that was an intended sorta-joke, or if I'm just an idiot.

Well, I mean, except that the tunic guy with the dire wolf probably has armor made of scales, too, thanks to silly Druid restrictions. I can see that going over either really well or really poorly depending on his choice of color. But then, if you're willing to accept a group of superheroes...

This is actually the big reason I've given the announcement a warmer reception than my usual response to yet-another-bloody-dragon-thing. I want to see dragons be a bit more common, a bit more likely to be just hanging around in caves being angry lizards. If there's one trend in fantasy that...

Edit: Off topic. Carry on.

Warblade + Diamond Mind is how manly men make swashbucklers, just so you know.

You missed a couple.

This assumes that there are a significant number of people that not only are at or above the PCs levels, but that they're both capable of and interested in magic item creation. I don't necessarily see any of those three being true.

Either that, or Lawful beings are obsessed about looking good according to existing standards and Chaotic beings are willing to look past all of the nonsense to cut to the heart of the matter to seek the greater good. Hey look, alignment is silly!

If losing those extra ribs doesn't matter, why did losing the first couple ribs matter? This interpretation leaves skeletons indestructible, even after you've reduced them to malevolent bone dust.

How could they possibly be more out of touch with him than if he didn't read their stuff?

Seems pretty similar to shadow spells -- you make the illusion so real that they believe it enough to be hurt by it. I don't have a problem with it, either; it could be interesting to see the idea applied to more of the Illusion school than a couple of catch-all pseudo-spells. That could also...

I'm a fan of the design itself, and of the fact that the nature-loving tree creature looks less like a mannequin and more like a tree.