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Doesn't this come from Tolkien, though? I like Eberron halflings the best.

I think they're targeting non-US customers with the survey. Probably because credit cards are not nearly as ubiquitous in the rest of the world as they are in the US (NA?). Everyone in America can pay with a credit card since they (crazily enough) practically need one, whereas in Finland, for...

I've been using the DMG2 Inherent Bonuses variant and I love it. I've expanded the "boons" reward system so that there are "martial" boons and "arcane" boons and so forth. Most simply represent the characters' abilities in their chosen field, frex the ranger has the "Wounding Strike" boon, which...

Forgotten Realms Campaign Guide has a small section on circle magic, which can turn a power into a war spell, a ritual like spell that has better range, area, damage, etc. I also remember reading somewhere about using skill challenges for mass combat, and skills like Arcana and Religion could...

Sounds fairly close to the Eberron treatment. The defending thing is very similar to kalashtar.

"Videogamey" doesn't mean anything to me because I don't think that there's any kind of universal feel or quality to them that encompasses all computer/video games. I mean, you got sports, action, strategy, RPG, platformers, shooters, racing, and so on, then combinations of those -- and it's not...

I think that bombarding the average player with strange foreign names makes them difficult to remember, whereas regular English words are easier. "Shardmind" is much easier than, say, "Dhalyyp" or something. Especially when you only hear it.

I think it's one of the best 4e books to date. So many good things in it.

Maybe they just have a really tiny mouth that's hard to notice. They'd eat like butterflies, using a proboscis (yes, I had to google that word).

For eladrin wizards there's the feat Twist the Arcane Fabric from Arcane Power that lets you fey step an ally from an area or close power.

A minority of WoW players also roleplay in the game. It's a very freeform type of roleplaying that uses player created text to add elements to the interaction with other characters and the world. It can be a lot of fun if you have creative people to play with.

Eh, it doesn't take that much to kill the leader and watch the party go down. Lots of monsters are quicker than PCs and can prevent escape. Also, you don't start all fights with a day's worth of surges available.

You can easily create very challenging combats in 4e without using high level creatures -- you just use more equal level monsters.

I think some of you are overestimating how much the average person who likes video game RPGs cares about the changes in 4e Realms. As long as it's got the name and it's "fantasy", it's practically the same as before, in their eyes. A 4e Baldur's Gate game would get positive attention simply...

I've understood that the PnP game's mechanics follow the computer game's mechanics pretty closely. If this is true, mages will overshadow warriors and rogues. :(

It completely depends on the world. Some worlds could have only a few, like talarei07 suggested, while others could have hundreds or thousands. In my experience, the older dragons tend to be relatively rare in most D&D worlds but not scarce enough to be considered "endangered".

Isn't he an avid gamer? I mean video games. I think this one is inspired by puzzles from video/computer games.

There was a big outrage over the changes when they were revealed, on the WotC Realms boards. It was largely just the few regulars, though, a handful of very vocal fans who were disappointed. What I find interesting is that these diehard fans would've probably preferred a 4e FR campaign book with...

What about the dracoliches that share the dragon mommy's lineage? They're not "living".

Hey, if you kill good creatures, they go to an eternal afterlife of bliss, but if you kill evil creatures, you condemn them to an eternal afterlife of horrible evil existence. So killing evil creatures is kind of evil always, but killing good ones is sorta good...