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Not the original poster, but here's a summary of what we know so far. All new classes will appear in either a PH or a PG, after which they'll be expanded upon in a splatbook. Knowing the bard and sorcerer and swordmage will all appear in Arcane Power tells us that those classes must appear in...

No, Rich Baker has confirmed that the swordmage won't appear in the PH2. On the other hand, the Arcane Power blurb says it is covering the bard, sorcerer, warlock, and wizard -- which makes it virtually certain that we'll see an arcane-leader bard and arcane-controller sorcerer in the PH2...

This was inevitable, I think, once the designers decided to streamline/simplify 4e into a standard good-versus evil setup. A second alignment dimension encourages the very team-ups the designers are trying to squelch, with good and evil characters uniting in the name of freedom or security or...

If Lawful Goodness really is something other than the traditional paladin-esque ends-never-justify-the-means type of Goodness, and if it isn't the only type of Goodness to be singled out in its own alignment category, great -- there will be many happy faces when the 4e rulebooks are released and...

You guys are missing the broader point, I think, on the alignment issue. CG and LE haven't disappeared because the designers made an arbitrary decision to excise from the game. Rather, this is all a logical consequence of the 4e design directive that the game promote good-versus-evil...

Sure, not a problem. LG sees an orderly society as the best way to promote the good of all, CG sees maximal freedom as the best way to unlock human potentials, G doesn't see either one as absolute and just wants whatever helps the most people. Huge difference between CG and NG, huge difference...

Good list, here are a few more: 1) Metamagic 2) Some classes (especially druid and bard) not having a clear function 3) In-game penalties for having a particular alignment (for example, monster attacks that do more damage against Good-aligned characters, evil clerics being barred from...

I agree with those who think the druid would have made a good controller. An entangling-and-weather-controlling class would have been much more interesting than a guy with a small collection of melee buffs we'll call "animal shapes." On the other hand, this does make clear the link to the...

Bard has been confirmed as an arcane leader, and the designers said at D&D Experience that the class has been completed. Pencil him in for the PH2 next year. Monk has been confirmed as a striker, and the designers said at D&D experience that the label "martial striker" is at least 50% wrong...

It is a mystery, at least at first glance -- clerics are generally perceived as being amongst the strongest classes in the game and yet few people want to play them. The problem, in my view, is that clerics are almost universally expected to pay for others' mistakes. Rogue triggered a trap...

The designers have confirmed there are at least 2 classes per role, and they've confirmed there are exactly 8 classes in the PH1. They've also told us which role seven of the eight PH classes will play: Leader -- Cleric, warlord Defender -- Fighter, paladin Striker -- Ranger, rogue Controller...

But killing per se isn't an evil act in D&D. It can be Good, or Neutral, or Evil, depending on the extent to which it protects innocents from harm. Endangering the lives of non-innocents also isn't an evil act per se in D&D. It can be Good, or Neutral, or Evil, depending on the extent to...

Good characters "protect innocent life," according to the core rules. They don't necessarily protect all life, they don't necessarily refuse to torture any life, they just do their best to protect innocent life. By that standard Jack Bauer has to be considered Good. Clearly some of the...

I once asked Skip Williams this question, and he suggested it be handled as an atonement quest which once completed turns the cleric into an equal-level cleric of his new faith. Changes to the character sheet are to be kept to an absolute minimum -- the character must stick with his initial...

As others have noted, there's a lot of overlap between the various schools. Planar travel can be accomplished through no fewer than four schools, for example, and the various energy spells are as bad or worse. Why should we care? First, there's really no point in having schools for spells...

Considering how much this book is slated to cost, it can't be a modern book or a variant-rule book or an epic book -- those would appeal to too small a slice of the AU community to merit a high-priced hardback. I think it's most likely to be an enormous enhancement/splatbook for AU -- something...

Perhaps it's called Arcana Evolved because "Complete Arcane-a" was already taken? :)

I think the bard should receive bonuses to sound-related skills and spells every few levels. The cleric, while too powerful on paper, should be left as is because the extra power is needed to encourage people to enter the class.

"The air sizzles as a monster appears... and attacks!" Our gaming group still laughs about that line, two decades after playing the module.

If the question here is whether wizards/sorcerers can research healing spells, the DMG answers this question. It says that that wizards/sorcerers shouldn't cast healing spells. To balance this, it says clerics should always be behind wizards/sorcerers on damage. Or is the question here...