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Ain't this the truth! This is why I've always argued that the default rate of advancement should be pretty fast. It's what the majority of players want. Furthermore advancement is probably the single easiest thing to house rule in D&D. ASAIK my entire group like the slower rate of advancement...

I didn't say you couldn't. I believe that making every little thing a skill challenge is bad thing, but as always YMMV. I was treating these examples as the elements of a single skill challenge. Are you honestly saying that every single goal must be a separate skill challenge? I think that...

The greater area with each successive casting was likened to picking at a scab. The damage was worse than the original wound.

A preserver wizard having no at-will powers (they've all become encounter powers) would really suck. On the other hand, allowing defilers to cast encounter powers at will and daily powers per encounter would really make them powerful. I would go with flavor. Defilers defile and preservers do...

I wish I could remember where it was, but one of the designers has said that any information required for polymorph would be included in the text of the spell. It seems a little strange to me, but that would imply that some sort of polymorph will be in 4e. No confirmation of whether it will be...

Your set up doesn't sound a lot like a skill challenge to me. The challenge should involve more than a few diplomacy checks. You can have situations like this, but they should probably be solved through RP or with RP and diplomacy checks. I also have to say that giving ultimatums to the king is...

I've played with and without a mat. I definitely prefer playing with one. Back in the 1980s I was in high school and couldn't afford miniatures, so we used cardboard counters with the character's/monster's name written on them.

I like the logo. It's simple and easily read. It won't make me buy a product that displays it, but I don't think any logo would do that.

I haven't been paying all that much attention. All I know is that it will be much slower IMC. My group is tired of the whiplash pace of advancement in 3e. I expect 4e RAW will be even worse. I'm one of those who liked the rate of advancement in 1-2e (once you got to level 3 that is). It's my...

:o That's what I get for commando posting at work. No time to check things over carefully. Thanks. I don't think counterspell is broken or unbalanced. I just think it's boring. YMMV.

Because good armor is so rare in Dark Sun, I would give a standard 1/2 level bonus to AC (assuming that there isn't one already), and a class bonus based on role (maybe +4 for defenders, +2 for leader and strikers). I don't think that preserving/defiling should be a feat, but a standard feature...

I have an intense dislike for ability damage. I have from the first time I opened a 3e book. I'm so glad to see it go away. Removing ability damage doesn't have to mean that enfeebling effects have to go away. It would fit the new system very well to have a ray of enfeeblement that bestowed a...

Dispel still cancels spells. It doesn't cancel the effects of rituals, and it doesn't end buff effects (all of which seem to last for 1 round now). It does remove lasting spell effects, such as conjurations and zones (long lasting AoE). We haven't seen anything on rituals yet. Who can say if...

Has someone released the spell list for the 4e PHB? I don't remember seeing it.

I think people are reading too much into it to see it as a subsystem. I'm not sure that it's necessary to announce a skill challenge, unless your players have trouble picking up the clues. I think a skill challenge is something you just fall into when it's appropriate. The X successes before Y...

I find it interesting how often a thread becomes hijacked with the I hate 4e names meme. On the OP, I find the revision you've done to be much more clear than the original wording. I still think that 4e rules will specify that allies cannot be moved unless willing. If not, it will appear in...

The skill challenge is the part of 4e I am most skeptical about. I agree with Celebrim in some respects. I have several problems with the arguments presented so far. That's why I'm waiting to see the rules in the DMG before weighing in too heavily. My group has used something akin to the skill...

But then we wouldn't be able to make the daily (or hourly) unsupported ant-4e rant! What fun would that be?

To each his own, but I've never understood the argument. I don't see it as metagaming if a player acts according to the rules. IMO the rules are designed to allow us to tell an interactive story. They don't equate to the physics of the world. They allow us, as near-omniscient outside observers...

If this kind of rule suits your campaign style, I say go for it. IMC I wouldn't use it. I like there to be some chance of the PCs not being able to one shot just anyone. I like the chance that they could try to one shot a guard and find out that he's not so easily killed. And I should point out...