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It just seems kind of a weak argument to call something a WoWism is it appears in WoW, even if it came from D&D first (like most of your examples). However, I will add a few more WoWisms in D&D 4e: 1) There are character classes. 2) Characters have levels. 3) Characters have hit points. 4)...

There is nothing wrong with this style of play. I just don't see the need to change the rules to accomodate it. If that's the style you like, you should houserule it - just like you did in previous editions.

The problem with the subject of hit points is that D&D has always been inconsistent in how the rules deal with damage. Officially, hit points have always been an abstraction. This definition works fine with regard to combat, but falls apart when dealing with some other issues, especially falling...

I'm going to agree with the other posters here who've pointed out that the problems you've mentioned aren't due to the rules, but to (I will go so far as to say) bad GMing. House rules (especially rules designed to increase realism) are often the cause of more problems than they solve. I know...

I am so glad to see the D&D alignment system go by the wayside. The only thing that kept me from jettisoning it in 3e was the existence of spells like Holy Smite, Holy Word etc... Without any mechanical reason to keep it, I will say good-by to it forever. In all the years I've run GURPS and...

I was extremely angry at the 4e announcement. I had just begun to rework the 3.5 rules to accomodate my next home brew, and WotC decides to change the game on me. I never posted anything negative here because I had no information to go on at that time. The more information that was released...

It would seem that you have no reason to be peeved. ;) According to the article, miscellaneous items do not take up any space on the body. You may also note that this 'slot' is listed in the plural - miscellaneous items.

Do we need yet another thread rehashing this old trope. OMG! D&D has some elements of WoW, that happened to be in D&D in the first place, but we won't let reality stand in the way of beating a dead horse.

I would say inspired by instead of based on, since there is so little to go on in the actual myth cycle, but that's just pedantry. (I can't escape it; it's my nature.) I think the reference to Finnish elves comes from the fact that one of Tolkien's elven languages (the wood elf language) was...

I'm hopeful that we will. Bo9S had a superior unarmed strike feat that dealt damage that scaled by level. I liked it a lot.

I would like to add my support for the PCs are literate, but most NPCs are illiterate position. If a player wants his character to be illiterate for RP reasons, I'm totally supportative, but it should be decided by the player. I usually assume that anyone (NPC) whose job requires it is literate...

The dragon issue doesn't bother me. I've never used a metallic dragon as anything more than a plot device. Now that dragons are no longer tied to alignment, I may give them another look. If they seem cool ( :p ) to me, I may use them. It would have been nice to see the needless draconic...

I will be using jaunts into the feywild and the shadowfell from the lower levels of the heroic tier. The new take on fey is more mythic and more interesting than we've had in D&D before. Many old eladrin sites in my campaign will exist alternately on the mundane plane and in the feywild. The...

I had already intended to use somthing similar to the City of Doors, the Hidden Library or the World Serpent Inn in my next campaign. I never played Planescape (although I was interested in it), but I've read it and I really like the concept.

This is most certainly not an mmorpg influence. Gamers have been using the concept of roles for decades. In the 1980s my group was referring to different character types as tanks, blasters and healers. We didn't make these terms up. We got them from articles in Dragon. It was even before...

This would so work for me.

I thought fey were kind of uninspired in 3e. When I was developing my next campaign for 3e (before the 4e announcement), I was intending to leave them out of the setting. The new flavor I've seen for fey and the feywild have me very excited. I made major changes to my upcoming campaign in order...

"Two best magazines in the industry" isn't saying much. What was the competition? IMO Dungeon was pretty good. I like reading adventures, even though I usually write my own. I have every issue of Dungeon and have probably ran fewer than a dozen adventures from it. IMO Dragon was mostly...

Last Friday, my gaming group (level 14) spent 90 minutes on 6 rounds of combat. This isn't uncommon in 3e, especially at high levels. Being stunned for 3d4 rounds doesn't take the player out for half the combat. It takes the player out for the entire combat, and a considerable amount of real...

To begin with, thank you Ari for your opinions on the new edition. Judging from the stuff you've worked on, it would seem that our gaming tastes are quite similar. With the announcement of 4e I was feeling pretty negative. My group was already experiencing 3e fatigue to the point that we were...