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Well, the thing is that the designers themselves declared that the game is "incomplete", and that they made it that way so that upcoming supplements won't be extra - they'll be core. They have explained time and time again that the PHB II, MM II, and DMG II will all be "core" books. Meaning...

I voted tieflings because I despise their look. Despise. With the dragonborn, at least I can see them as big, lizardmen. I can get behind that. But with tieflings...in 4th edition, they all look like demons. Not just tainted mortals, but friggin' demons. It's very difficult for me to get past...

I game in two groups who have female players, and I've gamed with female players for quite some time now. I don't see any "woe" to gaming with girls or women. Usually, I like it, because they tend to approach problems differently than males do. Because of that, the games we play tend to follow...

So, the fight was unexciting because of a long exchange of weak hits...sounds like my first couple of 4e games! :) I learned after running a few sessions that many of my players didn't "get" their classes. So they were doing the same things over and over, because they didn't know what else to...

Well, if they had gone 4e, they wouldn't be able to release this product until October. That would have sucked. I suppose they should be advertising this over at the Paizo boards. ;) Gooooo Pathfinder! :D

All I can say is that it's one of my favorite modules, ever, so far. It's really too bad that it was released right when 4e was announced, because then we'd hear about it a lot more, I'm sure. The encounter design in that module is totally awesome. There is something always going on in the...

Dude, were you at my table? The halfing warlock was the MVP at our table, too. :) He totally owned the end bad guy almost by himself.

:cool::D That's easy. The room had an arrow slit in it, and the sneak punk was shooting arrows at us from cover. The Warlock teleported into the room and proceeded to get pincushioned, since his best attacks were ranged as well. But I used the Swordmage to change things up. It was me in melee...

Grossly overpowered? Nah, that was not my impression. The Swordmage was tremendously fun to play because he was what I always wanted out of the only fighter/magic-user...a guy who can fight pretty well but can do some cool "magicy" things. A Jedi basically. So the Swordmage's fluff is great...

I just got back from Origins and I got to play the Swordmage in some of the 4e scenarioes they had set up for the convention. The modules I played in were written by Mearls, as some of you already know, so that was pretty fun too: basically, I got to play a Mearls module for 6$ rather than the...

I'd second some of the folks' recommendation for the Adversaries book, because the back of the book contains all of the powers and talents for the bad guys in alphabetical order and are easier to look up. I think that alone would help your games out a lot. Plus, many of the powers have been...

Anyone have the adventure that was featured?

I think a 5th Edition would have to do more with the gamer zeitgeist at the time than "improvements" on mechanical systems. Any talk of improvements on the mechanical systems of a roleplaying game has to be taken with a grain of salt. For one, any roleplaying game system will have its faults...

Some of the architecture of 4e seems suited to supers, like the tiering system, minions, and dailly, encounter, and at-will powers. However, I wouldn't want the kind of power accumulation that seems to occur in 4e. As supers get more experience, some of them get more powers. But others just...

I think you hit it on the head right there. Characters that are jacks of all trades tend not to be very fun in play. The concept is cool, you're right, but when it comes down to it, it's not very fun to be the character who's only 2nd best at everything. In terms of feel, I think the rogue is...

The Against the Giants series would be seriously awesome in 4e. As it was, the series was an arrangement of giant fights in different rooms. However, with the 4e rules, that kind of thing could be crazyfun, with different giants having different roles, etc. Plus, with the 4e skill rules as...

http://groups.google.com/group/rec....ca0c3ec1e7447d9 See, when I go back and look at these old discussions, I don't see the same thing going on. I think there were certainly many people who did not like the change from 2e to 3e. But I really don't remember the amount vitriol that I see now...

My big question - what happens to Elan in 4e? There are no bards! :lol:

I like many things about 4e. It's just that the things I don't like...I really don't like. I like what they are doing with monsters...a lot. Minions, boss monsters, monster roles - fantastic. I like what they are doing with stake-setting and task resolution. I will probably start using that...

Simply put, I would not have killed off some of the sacred cows they have killed off. By and large, most of their changes I would have given a thumbs up to. But I would have made a real effort to keep some of D&D's sacred cows in the game. Things like Saving Throws, and rolling for hit...