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I agree. IMO the way 3.0 (and apparently 4e) handles weapons for small characters is vastly superior to 3.5.

I bought a pack of 1" diameter wooden disks at the local craft store and painted them different colors so each martial character can pick a color to use for his marks. I haven't used them yet, because we've had no difficulty remembering who's marked whom.

IMO the lack of imagination comes from those who can't imagine that a fantasy (or even alien) race just might not be so easily pigeon-holed into conforming exactly with the biological rules of planet Earth. Admin here. Just because people don't agree with you doesn't mean they lack...

Vegepygmies, huecuva, aranea and derro.

If metaplot is gone in FR I will be ecstatic. I prefer to allow the plot of my own FR campaign to evolve as the players and I determine. One of the great things about Eberron is the absolute lack of a metaplot.

This has been my impression as well. The feel of the new edition reminds me a lot of pre-3e D&D. I've felt this when playing and when designing adventures. These feeling discussions are great, but everyone playing will likely get a different feel from the game. It's too subjective for us all to...

I already do, complete with a resurrection facility.

It took me some time before I could decide if I like it or not. Without the full rules before, I can't be 100% sure, but I'm leaning towards positive. I really like the system as a whole. The only question I have is whether it's worth a feat and a power to get a power. My gut instinct is no...

I'm not much for adventures spanning the planes myself. I prefer an epic campaign to finish in the campaign world, with ties to earlier scenarios. For me, the worst part of the adventure paths was the way in which they assumed that all stories must reach climax in some other plane. [Okay, I...

This is the key to understanding how pacts work IMC. The Lords of Light are interested in encouraging spiritual progression. The Lords of the Nine are interested in servitors. It's said that they had a rather strong disagreement over this issue in the distant past. Faerie Monarchs, Far Realms...

Demons may be from an adjacent realm, but devils are from the astral sea. If a GM wants to use pacts with angels in their own game, more power to them. The rules should be flexible enough to allow for new types of pacts. IMC, there are no gods (although there are astral beings who claim to...

When M&M and True 20 came out, I was fascinated by the simplicity and elegance of the system. We dropped HERO like a hot potato. However, we haven't run any M&M games for a year. The reason why is the damage system. While it looked neat on paper, everyone in my group hated it in practice. Call...

You could use 24 minions in one encounter, but it would be a lot of dice rolling. I have an encounter coming up in my first 4e scenario (first scenario of the campaign) that will have 8 minions, 2 standard and 1 elite thugs. I probably wouldn't go with just 24 minions. YMMV.

4e is the first edition I will consider allowing gnomes as a PC race. I've never liked any iteration of gnomes in previous editions.

QFT. I don't even use experience points. I haven't for years. The first thing I house ruled out of 3e was losing levels and spending xp for crafting.

Especially since 4e treats hp as encounter hp and healing surges as daily hp. Especially for a defender, every healing surge counts.

This is one of the classes I'm most excited about. I can't wait. I'm already planning on a warlord from the Waterdhavian nobility (a great-great grandson of the character I just retired) in my brother-in-law's game. WotC, you rock!

I may allow my campaign to all the way up to level 20. It's more likely that my group will decide to retire their characters between levels 11 and 20. I prefer heroic level play, Paragon level may be of interest, but I've seen nothing on epic level that makes me want to play it. We use much...

QFT! More GMs need to learn this. I have to say that Polymorph has never broken a game I've run. It's never even been a problem. Of course, none of my regular players are the type to abuse the rules (i.e. no douches allowed).

I have ordered a complete set of 4e books from Amazon. On the street date, I will buy one for my wife. She'll let me read it first. She doesn't care that much about rules (so long as we stick to one system), but she'll want the book handy when playing.