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The Points of Light aspect is what is making me excited about the possibility of running my Wild West / Sword and Sorcery campaign. Westerns are definitely all about Points of Light in pools of untamed darkness. I'm curious, though, I can see how the PoL thing could be enforced in the Forgotten...

Well, the title says it all. For those of you planning to run 4e, what are you planning to do? What kind of campaign do you have set up? What are you cooking? For myself, I'm not overly fond of their fluff, but I love their crunch. So what I'm doing is working on a campaign that is...

I'm a big gnome fan. And I mean, we've had full D&D parties of gnomes. This made me like the gnome even more. I don't get what people are saying about how this disses gnomes. It makes them look great! It captured their fun personality even more! The badger minion? Priceless! "Who's my minion...

Nice. I was a gronard before, but much of this sounds very encouraging.

Wow. Great point. To re-iterate...I wasn't under the impression that magic items were being done away with either. Personally, I like the whole idea of less magic items anyway, because that fits my playstyle better. I also think that less magic items better fits what David Noonan talked about...

When 4e first came out, I was cautiously optimistic. I liked many of the things they were offering out of the door. A larger sweet spot, the doing away with save or die, etc. However, as more and more stuff was released I began to become skeptical and then downright grumpy. The latest stuff...

Power Attack was a horrible time-waster. Good riddance. It was a horrible time-waster on many different levels. If a player sat there and thought about their attack roll for a few seconds, no big deal. But what happened was those few extra seconds would slow down the whole game, because...

I don't know if this has already been said, but I think it's orcs because of the introduction to R.A. Salvatore's new book. In the Orc King, the introduction talks about the Forgotten Realms 100 years in the future, as everyone knows. But it also introduces the idea of orcs being good. Drizz't...

Actually this is true, it is one of the things that hurt 2e. It didn't kill 2e, however. That's a whole other ball of wax. As for proof, you can go and look up any old designers and their notes on the demise of 2e. They mention all of their lines and how they were not sustainable. A friend of...

I would be...extraordinarily surprised if the preview books didn't have the classes and races of the PHB listed. Not doing so would be...really, really dumb. You'd be putting out a product that would take up landfill space somewhere. My question is, how much game information will there be in...

Great link! Thank you!

I just picked up the Lair video game soundtrack and it rocks all the way around. Great for combat. Another very good soundtrack is the score to Transformers. It's really epic and heroic. Also, I would highly recommend Ars Aranca. What's good about that soundtrack is that it's the music you...

Fundamentally flawed? Well, instead of looking at it from a 3.0 to 3.5 to 4.0 perspective, I'm looking at it from a 1st edition to 4th edition perspective. There are things that have been inherent in the game for a long, long time that I have seriously not enjoyed. For example, the level...

I totally agree. For one, AoOs basically mandated the need for miniatures and battle maps. We used those before, but it made combat tied to the battle map. Then, as wayne mentioned, it made each player move their mini like a chess piece, and it slowed the game down to a crawl. There was even a...

I missed one of the boats. What are Affiliations?

It's like that old Supreme Court ruling on pornography. I can't define it, but I know it when I see it. Whether a game as a D&D "feel" is kind of like that. I agree with you very much. A lot of what WotC is doing seems to be very innovative. And what they are doing seems to make the game more...

Well, I was excited about 4th Edition. But this has gone a long way in taking the wind out of my sails. The DI will be mainly about making online characters and an interactive dungeon? Hell, I can do that in Neverwinter Nights right now! And it looks prettier! This is what they are spending so...

Well, if they rely on the DI, I think they're in big trouble. But I don't think they will be doing that.

Right. All roleplaying games ultimately face this dillemma. Once you put out your core book, monster book, and GM's book...you're essentially done. The people playing your game don't need to buy any more materials. So you release supplements and some of your audience will buy those. But then...

Actually a poll at this point is a great idea for measuring everyone's gut reaction. Personally, I'm curious to know what people think about this one announcement.