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The 5% or so of the populace that had PC classes in 3e is still there in 4e. The difference is that they are now modeled using monster statistics rather than PC classes. An NPC who is modeled as an Elf Archer, Elite skirmisher 10 can be just as important to the background as he could if he were...

My Saturday night group will also be doing another 4e preview this weekend. That'll only bring our total up to three. :( Oh well. We'd be doing nothing but 4e previews if we weren't really interested in finishing out our current campaigns before the new edition arrives.

There are different styles of play, and all are equally valid for those who play. However, I have always disliked games in which there is no qualitative difference between PCs and everyone else. I like PCs to be more capable than fragile, even at start of play. IMO this was always the promise of...

I've never known of any player who ever actually tried something like the bag of rats in a game. It's just a weak critical device that creates an absurd situation around a corner case in the game in an attempt to make a game rule seem bad. IMO any player who would try to use such a tactic would...

I'll buy that. I don't have the playtest characters on me, so I'm going off of memory. Maybe I read it that way because I was in a hurry and it seemed like how the power should work. In any event, it would be strange to assume that using a bag of rats to enable a cleave would allow a character...

I guess you could read it that way. I had assumed that the term adjacent opponent meant an opponent adjacent to you. That interpretation would probably make sense, so it has no place in a bag of rats argument.

I've got a set for me and one for the wife on preorder. If a pdf were leaked to the web, I would (in this order): 1) Download it 2) Read it ASAP 3) Smile smugly at how wrong all the worst-case musings about 4e actually were 4) Resist all temptation to make hundreds of I-told-you-so posts 5)...

While Baker may have been talking about a repurposed wizard, he did say that we would be able to play a gnome artifcer in July. I believe we're talking about a separate class, since he also added that the gnome artificer wouldn't have as many class options as other characters (presumably until...

Given Nick's post about the reality of the situation regarding his communication with WotC, I just thought I would apologize for using this as an opportunity to illustrate how evil a company WotC really is, how they are trying to destroy the gaming community we've built up over these many years...

I voted for a lot of different settings, because I love settings. It would be great to see some of the older TSR settings redone for 4e, especially Greyhawk, Mystara, Ravenloft, Spelljammer and Dark Sun. I would also add my voice to the choir in urging only a campaign sourcebook and a large...

I agree with Zarathustran. I will buy 4e D&D because it's the current version of the game I love. Open 4e D&D with permissive GSL = best option. Closed 4e D&D = worse option, but not enough to stop me from buying or playing.

Bold face is mine for emphasis. I think fans on this forum are reading more into the situation than are the authors who are affected. If WotC decides not to use any of these authors in the future (after 4e has come out), I think it'll be bad for the game. Some of the PAIZO authors are great...

If you're defining a witch as priest/priestess of a nature religion then it would seem that the best classes we have in 4e for such a concept would be either cleric or warlock (fey pact). The radiant damage may seem a little strange, but it is intended to model generic divine power. Even a...

In neither of the two playtests my group ran did the paladin run out of healing surges.

I'm not claiming that a TPK is the only bad outcome that can result from catastrophic failure. In all fairness to Celebrim, it's pretty clear that he isn't making that claim either. What I'm saying is that I do not enjoy games that do not have a possibility for TPK. I don't want the GM to change...

Everyone's taste is different, but I don't enjoy playing (or GMing) a game where there is no risk of failure. If the PCs fail horribly, you end up with a TPK. I've never had one, but the possibility has always been there. It will be the same IMC in 4e.

I agree 100%. Characters must risk the consequences of failure. I can't see the fun otherwise. I won't even run the game without risk of failure for my kids (they're 8). I'm hoping what Andy Collins meant was that skill challenges shouldn't necessarily be designed in such a way that failure...

I went with nature, plant and weather druid. For me, these are the central elements to the class.

I had forgotten Riverworld when I said I'd never read a novel in which resurrection was a easy as D&D. But I was thinking mainly of fantasy novels, not SF. It is a great series, one of my favorite, and I can't believe I missed it. I still prefer a fantasy setting where resurrection isn't...

I like this a lot. Ancient philosophers often referred to death as a great sleep, claiming that a man is never so close to death as when he is dreaming. I have no problem with undead being affected by magical sleep. I don't even have a problem with undead sleeping (although they probably...