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I hope this article is about how to make statblocks easy to read and design and not the try to wriggle out of responsiblity for the crappy stat blocks with hundreds of errors in the WoC Books.

Yeah, but the Chinese are not Demons and as far as I know do not try to destroy the multiverse. I do not see Bill Balor and Vinnie Vrock sharing a 2 room Flat in a 1.000 floor Spire in Abyssia. A City growing so fast that even Zeus Inc. (the multiverse' foremost lightning company) will invest a...

Tradition and Belief win over rational thought. To explain this we would have to go deep into History and Religion. But EN World is not the platform for this.

Hmm, maybe Weight Watchers or Atkinson can help?

Well, flawed mechanics like grapple are a complete different thing for me. I had and sometimes have this sense of wonder still with AD&D 1st ed. And 1st edition is not a system without flaws. Sense of wonder IMO is the presentation of the Monsters and the players finding the right way to defeat...

No Alignments or no rule mechanics like detect evil? Now that would be a good move! I absolutely hate that every evil NPC has to have ring on nondection that he can be used as a Plot device before screened by the Paladin or whomever.

But that can happen in 4th Ed. too if Gamers buy the MM. As DM I found it easy to bring back the sense of wonder and maybe fear to my players. Instead of "you face a Troll" I changed the description to something resembling a Yeti and instead of Acid and Fire he could not regenerate Cold and...

From what I have seen so far, I really love the new mechanics and changes to gameplay in 4th ed. But the flavor so far has disappointed me. I do not like Tieflings as a core race (PC1: "yep, daddy was a bearded devil and what is with you?" PC2"No, my parents were fine. Granny was a succubus."...

If they love the concept of the evil locked up God they could have lifted it and given him a new name like Morgoth Ernie the eeevil entity and nobody would have complained.

Separate Classes for Illusionist and Necormancer might be a good idea. As I do not know the mechanics, I can not comment on it. But I fear that specialised Base Classes will be the Prestige Classes of 4th edition. We Do not know this yet, but with a proposed PHB every year we will get a lot of...

Another thought that struck me. With a complete new setting for the multiverse there is endless potential for new Books. New Manual of the planes. The Manual of Elemental Tempest Slavering Hordes of the Abyss The Temptation of Hell The Hitchhikers Guide to the Atsral Plane and so on. If they...

Paradise Lost, Book 2: Satan ponders his voyage to the "material plane": Sounds like the Elemental tempest, doesn't it? Paradise Lost, Book 2: Satan has to enlist help to cross the Abyss (Elemental Tempest): Nethermost Abyss sounds like this festering hole in the elemental tempest, doesn't...

If Demons are like that I will be happy. But I am worried that they will be not like that. But all I can do for now is to hope for the best and wait for the MM.

This is exactely how I like the Demons. But for me the Fluff text in the article portrays them as Barbarians who just rage and destroy without a cunning plan behind it. That is what irks me. I like to have Orcus have a clever plan to flood the prime material plane with Undead ("the even more...

Yeah, but with a fiendishly clever contract: 35 hours a week, 30 days annual leave with full payment plus public holidays. This also includes a health and pension plan. Furthermore he is head of a workers union to wreak havoc with the employers :]

That does not sound as if Demons use sophisticated plans to achieve something, even if it is to get more personal power. They are just like army ants. I see the idea behind this clear design. Fluff follows function. In the 4th mechanics devils will be "manipulators" (or whatever they will be...

Thi must be your shortest review yet, Crothian ;)

Hmm, that does not sound random to me. Would be funny if the Anti 4th ed. posters received a playtest invitation because they posted about 1.000 anti 4th ed. comments. :D

Well, that was the first read that left me completelty underwhelmed. Ok, in the last few years, the line between Demons and Devils blurred because of cheming Demon Lords. But it looks to me as if they saw the problem and choose to kick the ball to the other end of the field. Demons as almost...

Only the true not Sean K. Reynolds would deny his name! Hail to Sean K. Reynolds. Where's your sandal? :p