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There's been a lot of complaints about the names used in Fourth Edition - stuff like Feywild, Dragonborn, Shadow Fell and Eladrin. My question to those that don't like the names is: what names do you like? How should game designers come up with new fantasy names? How would you name: A wild...

Every class using the same progression explains why the multiclass warload/wizard is still a warlord 10 - there's no need to switch classes per se, as long as you get different class features.

Ooh! An interesting campaign would be one where the orcs, hobgoblins, gnolls, kobolds, lizardfolk, bugbears and tieflings were the civilised ones fighting off hordes of halflings (they breed like rats!), elves, dwarves, and so on.

Can someone explain what the Blackrazor deal is? I looked at the art, and I couldn't figure it out.

I'm not sure if this has ever been spelt out in the rules, but I've always played it that "one attack" is in fact a series of cuts and parries. When you include waiting for a chance to strike, maneuvering into a favourable position and recovering from a blow, the "one attack" could very well...

The problem is not that familiars make bad bodyguards... it's that familiars hit by an area spell have a good chance of dying. As soon as they leave the wizard/sorcerer, they become a liability - even if they don't attack enemies. An interesting alternative would be if damaging the familiar...

Pick up something, pass it to your other hand and pass it back. Then stand up, walk 15 feet, and walk back. Don't you dare tell me that the first action took as long as the second :p

This is a very new concept. It's not long since primitive people had their land and liberty taken by civilised people, and during the Dark Ages/Middle Ages knights and warriors had no qualms about killing whoever stood in their way. It's only when 'Good' comes to mean "modern Western pacifism"...

What are those six ways? I don't think I've ever seen cool familiars.

Moral people throughout history have killed without detect evil or surveys. You make the decision to attack based on evidence and priorities. Maybe the barbaric tribe has a perfectly good reason for attacking merchant caravans - but that doesn't make it wrong for guardsmen to kill the barbarians.

Amen! Gnolls?

Isn't Ptolus primarily fluff anyway? It shouldn't be too hard to convert a couple of prestige classes, races and spells.

One thing people have complained about for 4e is the names like 'Emerald Frost', 'Feywild' and 'Shadowfell', as well as 3e names like 'warblade', 'duskblade' and 'hexblade'. Someone explained that in the real world, names grow organically and their origins are often ambiguous - samurai comes...

I assume he's being facetious. Enworld has, what, 55,000 members or something? You'd never be able to get all those 55,000 to see this thread, let alone comment in it.

I'm curious to know if you have people in mind (you don't have to name names) or if you're just speculating. It seems to me it could be that once-regular posters are annoyed by 4e or turned off by the fact there's little non-4e conversation any more.

Can someone explain Pattern and Logrus to me? I understand they're part of the world of "Shadows of Amber", but what are their defining features?

Looks like the designers agree with you: "The class is dark, yes, but there’s room in their concept for other styles of play".

The closest I can think of is that there are only 12 Jade Phoenix Mages in existence at one time.

Knight, Monk, Warblade/Swordsage with the appropriate manuevers. Are there any other candidates I've missed?

To add my own experiences as a low-level swordsage, I found combats were different enough that i used different manuevers... Setting Sun throws to chuck cultists into their fire, minotaur's charge to take out the BBEG when I was sickened, and so on. At higher levels, with even more maneuvers at...