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What Cam Banks said x 1000. Mystara is the original PoL setting, before PoL was hip and trendy. What was Mystara's metaplot? Law vs. Chaos, natch. It was about ragtag, outnumbered forces for civilization and order fighting against a wild frontier full of goblins, werewolves, and the restless...

I seem to recall CS saying forced movement did not trigger damage caused by moving through a square, but logically this doesn't make much sense. If there's a pillar discharging electricity and I push you into it, you're going to get electrocuted. Granted, I understand using logic/real world...

For my money, the planar system of 4e feels a lot more like real world mythological planar structure than previous editions did. Celtic myth is rife with encounters with members of the "Other World" (Feywild in D&D terms). To cross over, all you had to do was be in the right place at the right...

Well, here's a start (from this month's Ampersand): Everything is core. PHB1, PHB2, MM, MM2, DMG, AV, MP, AP, Dragon, Dungeon. Everything. Core != Required to play. That's just the PHB, MM, and DMG. Core = Official material designed or "debugged" by the WotC design staff that requires no...

You can make a pretty mean half-orc ranger/fighter hybrid that is capable of large damage output and good accuracy once per encounter (Tempest Style + Double Sword + Twin Strike + Off-Hand Strike + Rain of Blows + Oath of Enmity (from Avenger MC feat) + Hunter's Quarry + Furious Assault =...

What you've got is pretty solid. In a less structured format, here's my understanding of the nature of the Martial power source: Attacks are split into two basic types Physical strikes with a weapon, piece of equipment (e.g. shield), or limb. This makes up the vast majority of attacks...

Greyhawk and Mystara.

I don't think there's much difference between the two that would necessitate plate armor in the heroic tier. Once you start to get into masterwork armor, things become more pronounced. Until you get into nagascale and titanscale armor, plate will continue to skew 1 higher for AC (after which...

Ah, you're right. I got confused between the "free action" and the "immediate interrupt" part. Still, I'd rather have that big incentive not to hit me than a teleport.

Vicious Rod, anyone? And gee, I don't have to spend a feat I can use on getting a second pact (or Sacrifice to Caiphon) to do it, either. Granted, if I was playing a Cha-lock I'd go Dark pact and second into fey to pick up Eyebite at paragon tier, not the other way around. Darkspiral Aura...

Hmm... that's kind of what I expected, but not really. I figured if it was something "new" it would be totally off the wall. So, does this give us any hints as to what power source besides ki we'll see in the PHB3? Elemental maybe? That's kind of a stretch since Elemental != Nature in this...

It continues to amaze me how many people are bothered by recycled art. I didn't buy Arcane Power for this pictures, I bought it for the rules. The inclusion of material from Dragon Magazine (i.e. the recylcing of rules) bothers me. Old pictures? Psh. It's a D&D supplement, not an art book.

I would have paid $20 for just that. The demihuman/humanoid gazetteers go for mad cash.

Frankly, I wouldn't have enough time to perch myself at my computer, eagerly awaiting new threads to seed with negative comments like that. Better things to do and all! Er, but on topic, I really do expect it to be something entirely new. Kind of a, "Take a look at this!" to try and get...

Considering that none of the races we've seen are even remotely complex enough to need playtesting, it would either have to be something that interacts with the new hybrid class system very closely (and therefore needs a test-drive to make sure it isn't above everything else) or a race with some...

If all you do is look at the end result of a power - deal X+Y damage and effect X - then yes, there are no mechanical differences between power sources. And rightly so, as every power serves the same purpose - an expression of resolving an attack in combat. But power sources are mechanically...

Maybe I'm alone on this, but I don't give a rat's hindquarters about pagecount or words per page or whitespace or recycled art. None of that equates to value in a RPG book. That's like ordering a hamburger and obsessing over the number of sesame seeds on the bun. To me, value in a RPG book is...

Why should gamers be required to support FLGS? I've never really understood the widespread notion that, because my hobby is playing TRPGs that I'm obligated to find a gaming store and exclusively purchase products from them. Because they have the same interests as I do? Let me tell you, I've...

Right. And if WotC was concerned making viewable electronic versions of books in print would hurt the sales of the books, simply don't add a book to the "Wizards' Library" (and yeah, I totally give them permission to use that name if they take this idea) until it goes out of print. You've got...

Here's my suggestion to WotC, even though I know they're probably not monitoring these threads anymore after 19 pages of vitriol in another post. Develop or license a Flash applet that displays PDF content without the option to save. Then, wherever the applet and the PDFs live on your server...