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I've definitely increased my spending at my Premium Store FLGS. I was able to pick up the Dark Sun CS nearly two weeks before Amazon would be able to deliver it. I don't mind paying full retail for the book since it means my FLGS will make money and thus stick around. I've seen a lot of FLGSes...

None of your old books will be worthless. The Essentials line has simplified variations on current rules to help new players get into the game but they don't affect existing rules beyond simple errata. You don't have to adopt any of the new variants on rules at your table. Nothing I've seen...

An aspect of the Dark Sun campaign setting is things on Athas don't work exactly like they do elsewhere. While the Sorcerer-Kings are pretty powerful on Athas they're not exactly on the same power level as the Fey and demons Warlocks normally make their pacts with. The Sorcerer-Kings also have...

I liked the skill challenge system in 4E so much I ported it to a bunch of different types of games, including Star Wars SE before it was officially added. Skill challenges are similar to Chases in Spycraft. The checks need to match up with narrative elements but provide a nice structured way to...

I'm fully cognizant that people exist who play the game differently than I do. The reason I'm confused about the particular idea of lots of non-combat skills is that area has been provided for in the 4E rules. Skills in 4E are not doled out like they used to be in 3E. There's a relatively steep...

I didn't want to quote your entire post but I'll respond to bits of it. In the 4E system skills work very differently than they did in 3E. Training only gets you an additional +5 to a check and you're likely to have only a handful of trained skills. Your class grants you some and it takes a feat...

I don't understand the players that require every last bit of the game codified with some rule like they're playing Monopoly with dragons. Rules for tense in-game situations where your character can cease to exist are well placed. You don't want players to simply exclaim "I hit it with my axe...

"When the time is right" isn't so much about switching editions but when there's an actual need to print new books. If they decided tomorrow to print a new run of PHBs with errata changes in them they would have to pull back every copy of the current PHBs in their various distribution channels...

In defense of box sets, I was talking to the purveyor at my FLGS last night and he brought up a good point. The "feelies" in a box set aren't something that can be put up on DDI. As convenient as DDI can be it can completely cut the throat of FLGSes. A year subscription costs about as much as...

One of my FLGSes had the books in today (I have them on pre-order elsewhere) and I flipped through them tonight. They're definitely not as fluffy as the 2E boxed set books, the campaign setting has some fluff but not nearly as much as the Wanderer's Journal in the box set. The Creature...

Besides a Cleric being one of the historic core classes of D&D there's a huge reason to bring a Cleric along, the "radiant" keyword. Most undead are vulnerable to radiant damage and receive extra damage when hit with radiant attacks. A Cleric running around using Lance of Faith is going to cut...

Bringing the Red Box back and introducing the Essentials line I think WotC is trying to provide the basic D&D experience again. Going from 2E to 3E WotC essentially distilled the AD&D rules and left the simpler D&D rules behind. People who might have appreciated the simpler D&D rules were...

I'm really excited for the 4E Red Box. I've been desperately wanting something that can easily introduce D&D, particularly 4E, to new players. The 4E and 3E PHB and Pathfinder's Core Rulebook suffer from presentation problems. If you aren't really familiar with what pen and paper role playing...