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Love what's been suggested so far. Also I would encourage the players to come up with the wizard world lingo for their powers, or help them if they need it. Sword burst might be - accloco gladius (combining accio for summon and loco for animate) Aegis of Shielding - aegis scutus If you run...

With action point, Lazarus is looking at 4 attacks against a single target, dealing 3d8+8. If he hits 4 times, that's 86 damage. You haven't told us what level your party is and how many of them there are, and we don't know what kind of healing resources they have. If you think they can handle...

There is just something wrong with a bad ass drow wizard... with a pointy hat. Santa makes my fair skinned brethren wear them, so I must wear them too? And oh, in the dwarven halls of the rune tablets, we the dwarven arcanists wear pointy hats. Meet Grumpy, Sleepy, Sneezy, Dopey... I suppose...

I think it's best to have a few sessions with no combat. Otherwise, I find it incredibly difficult to get into the story. Trying to have a combat every session feels like banging my head against a memory wall because people forget stuff without sufficient immersion into the story. But if I spend...

Minion/Grunt/Goon/Mook/Whatever: 1 round, for any PC Standard/Average/Moderate/Whatever: 3-4 rounds for a PC that focuses on dealing lots of damage, 5-6 rounds for everyone else. Elite/Tough/Named/Whatever: 7-8 rounds if it's mono-a-mono, for a PC that focuses on dealing lots of damage, 10-11...

Dance of the knife is a bit unclear. When you say "makes one more attack", can he use wounding dagger for that attack? I'm sure you know what you mean, but I don't. Perhaps you mean "he makes the attack one more time". Also, Lazarus's damage is too low. Around 15 is the expected damage for...

I picked some stuff for the poll, but in comments, I told them, ultimately I don't care about what's in the first MM, as long as future products cover missing holes and they all end up in an online database. Edit: I do want lots of fresh art though.

That is very true. I should clarify... For me, I look for a diverse experience, a system that can deliver to the needs of a variety of campaign worlds that a DM can create, and a variety of character concepts a player can come up with. Again for me, D&D is first and foremost a fantasy role...

Some say D&D is vancian magic. Some say D&D is elves, dwarves and halflings. Some say D&D is +5 holy avengers and flame tongues. Some say D&D is magic missiles and fireballs. Some say D&D is attributes, hit points, and armor class. Some say D&D is B&W Erol Otus art. And naturally, some disagree...

I'd be happy with generic fantasy, but we're not even going to get that. Ultimately, D&D's depiction of fantasy is VERY narrow. Greyhawk. That's it. Even the steam-punkiness of Eberron pushes the envelope of D&D too far for some people. 4e "destroyed" D&D because there were silly healing surges...

Voted a, but what I want is a little different. I wish spells could be given a half dozen categories, to accommodate for the campaign setting. If your campaign setting builds magic around the elements, then you want an elemental designation for each spell, fire, air, earth, etc, even...

You can certainly make a gaming system without stats, so no, they're not a necessity. They are just sort of a starting point, a sacred cow, a mechanical focus, a concept ingrained into the neural pathways of all gamers, so much so that when they read a fantasy book, they will immediately assign...

Whatever is appropriate for the scenario. In my 4e game, I have used TotM, I have used abstractions to where I turned combat into skill challenge, I have used zone systems (though I didn't realize they were called that), and I of course typically use the full on battle grid. I think I would...

It would not surprise me to find out Kate and Jon are left handed. It's harder for me to tell the handedness of the others (even Dan's depiction is somewhat questionable). But these are artists right? Left-handedness is a lot more common in artists, compared to the general population.

In many systems, targets in heavy armor are easier to hit, harder to hurt. D&D has just never really taken this path. Armor DR also introduces another element into the game system, AP (Armor Piercing). And then you have to deal with things like mindblast, does armor protect against it or not? Do...

D&D characters don't really get hurt. Their hit points are depleted, but they are rarely hurt. How often do you see a D&D character with a broken arm? A sprained ankle? A dislocated shoulder? A torn ligament? D&D characters are immune to getting hurt. They just have these thingies we call hit...

There are still a lot of things I like about the current DDI. I just love the online compendium. Every monster at my fingertips, every class, every skill, every feat. It's all easy to search and filter. Glossary is pretty solid. I definitely want something of this caliber in the next edition. I...

Talking about color this week. I just want to say Brown rules! Seriously, brown is real. Brown is subtle. Brown is complex. You can have reddish browns, yellowish browns, violet browns. Changing the value as needed for composition and lighting, you can do entire paintings in brown. And yes...

5e will let you be creative, but I believe it will have an intentional limit. This became apparent to me, listening to the PAX seminar online. They were very careful with their choice of words, dancing around some of the questions. I believe the limit will be "the D&D universe". So if you're...

Maybe they will let the campaign setting define healing. In one setting, you might have everyone fully healed after every combat. In another you might have to use surges to heal between encounters. In yet another, only an extended rest (or seven) will heal your wounds, and even then, only...