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If a DM or adventure designer wants a bugbear fighter to fight the players, it should be easy to design a bugbear with a "fighter template" that makes him a little tougher in combat and gives him a couple of fighter features like some expert maneuvers/expertise dice. If a designer or DM wants...

I completely agree with this. Player characters need to be handled completely separately and differently from monsters/npc's. I have no problem with rules for player character orc fighters, gnoll wizards, etc. but those need to be designed with player character rules. I also think it's cool...

NPCs and monsters "with player character classes" should be handled like any other monster, in that it should be balanced and designed as a monster. That is the single most important advancement of Fourth Edition, in my opinion, and as a DM I'd hate to lose that in 5th edition. However, we...

Yes, this is why I never lacked slaadi. They seemed totally unfitted to represent pure chaotic neutral. I'm fine with keeping them in the game but just as another monster type that has found a place to live in the outer planes. They need something better to represent chaotic neutral in the...

THIS! Hopefully. And mind you, I really like Fourth Edition rules. But most of the 4E adventures were awful. I don't think that was inherent to the 4E rules, just badly designed and badly written adventures with very little effort on the story hooks and plot, and very little to help foster...

Fair point. I'm hoping that is the case. The test adventures do say that they are not really testing the characters versus the monsters at this point with this playtest packet.

Looking at the thread on Attack Bonuses I see high level characters can easily have a +17 attack bonus. So I think certainly having 17 as the highest monster AC in the game is too low. There should at least be some archdevils, demon princes, and powerful dragons who a high level character has...

I love Fourth Edition and my preference is to keep running my game in Fourth Edition. Having said that I have some players that prefer a simpler, faster paced game, and I'm hoping DNDNext will provide that so we can have that option. So far I like what I see in the latest playtest packet in...

I read over the monsters in the new Playtest Packet Bestiary. I was struck by the low armor classes of even the most powerful monsters there. I understand with relatively flat math that ACs have to stay fairly low. But surely Asmodeus or a huge red dragon should be at least occasionally...

I noticed on the playtest there are feats designated as "general", others as "magic", "martial" or "expert", but I couldn't find any reference to whether that means the feats are restricted to certain classes besides the restrictions listed in the prerequisites, or whether those are just...

The thing that most concerned me about this Legends and Lore is this - we are one year into playtesting, and yet this seems like possibly such a major reworking of the way classes are balanced against each other and the way character advancement works. At this rate DNDNext looks like it won't...

It seems there is an error in the hit points of the dwarf fighter pregen character in the packet. He has 15 hp, but shouldn't he only have 14 (10+3 for Con modifier +1 for Dwarven Toughness)?

Did anyone else find the Dragonlance magic items to be totally overpowered for the stated level? They had cool flavor but just seemed way over the top compared to similar level rare items. Seems they should have been higher level and/or artifacts/relics rather than rare magic items.

I'm planning to run Against the Giants for my players (4th edition version) and need to find a miniature to represent a female stone giant. Any suggestions for any miniature (plastic, metal, resin, painted or unpainted) that could be used to represent a female stone giant if appropriately...

I'm with those who want more varieties of each type of monster. Fourth Edition does a good job with that, and as a DM I find that very useful. In building an adventure I'd much rather have several ready to use really different goblin types than one goblin type and a bunch of weird rare and...

I'm planning to stick with DM'ing 4E, as long as the character builder and Adventurer's Tools is available to run it. If that online support is cut off I will probably go back to 3rd edition or try Pathfinder. At this point I'm not planning to switch to DM D&D Next.

I like the OP's proposal, but I think what we need in such a branching is to have Wizards continue to support and develop 4e, develop a D&D next which is along the lines of where they seem to be headed, as a simpler version reminiscent of 2e but with improved design, and leave 3e to Paizo's...

If all it takes to correctly assemble a multipart mini is superglue, that would not be so bad. But all the online tutorials I've read about assembling large metal multipart minis talk about drilling and pinning the parts before gluing them on, and that is where it gets intimidating for me since...

The sculpts definitely look cool. I especially like the big guys, and most especially the Alibeth Lord, which is the miniature that most accurately represents an aboleth so far that I've seen. The Deep Mother is also pretty cool looking. I've never assembled any metal miniatures, so I'm still...

I saw this Kickstarter advertised here in ENWorld and was wondering if anyone has heard of this company and what people's thoughts are on this Kickstarter. I went in on the Reaper Kickstarter because I was familiar with Reaper's good reputation on customer service, product quality, etc. I am...