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Heck, I'm looking forward to you making a martial artist for 4E. I've also been considering translating some Arcana Evolved stuff as well.

You had some great good points, but this I gotta call foul on. The change from AD&D XP to 3E was gianormous. 3E brought unified progression tables, a unified mechanic for experience, and tied wealth and equipment to experience in a way that had never been done formally before. Heck, even the...

On the whole I see way less change than I have in prior editions. 2E - 3E changed nearly every aspect of crunch. 2E - 3E (in terms of core books) changed the very idea of fluff for the core books. And that's not even counting the fact that the shift killed whole game lines with their own...

I think the key here is that for both the fighter and cleric an attack is as good as a holy symbol. It's not that the cleric attacks coincedentally as she heals, it's that the attack is part of the prayer for healing. DnD religion is hard freaking core. Either that or the deities feel that in...

Honestly, that's sort of awesome. You could do an adventure where each encounter was a seperate mini-dungeon. Just ride through like Ivan the Terrible's Black Riders burning out every Kobold village in the canyon.

There's also the problem that honest to god, I'd rather have had the civic in the first place.

I don't know that I have the same emotional reaction you describe here, but I think this was a good analysis. Thanks for taking the time to write it out. One thing I would add is that there an implicit group in this dynamic besides DM's and that's adventure writers and game designers. Now you...

I think of DnD as existing in the Ven diagram intersection of Devo, Wheezer, and Led Zeppelin.

My only experience is with the internet version of the DDXP material, hurray for Olgar Shiverstone, but I found 4E to be far easier to play without a board then 3X precisely because it required far less houseruling of AoOs and all feats that affected AoOs. That, the new reach, and the generic...

If what you're talking about is the Warlock description I think I might be able to put your mind at ease. From what we've seen from the sample characters the Warlock and the Rogue are going to have fairly similar scout skill sets. Heck, the warlock even gets a concealment ability he can then...

You know, aside from the designer commentary... We know Bards and Druids were designed pretty early on. We know/suspect that Druid and Barbarian are based off of the primal source. Bard, Druid, and Barbarian as the initial three primal classes actually seems like a pretty awesome grouping...

Let's see. Here's a couple of discrete scenarios: Inn - Well, the Inn could function for both monsters and demihumans. One of the ideas about PoL is that the Light aspect stands more for hospitable than good. This is meant to give you city states ruled by invincible tyrant overlords, but it...

Ok, I think I gotcha, you aren't asking for justifications of PoL as a whole, you're asking how do we protect individual points of light? Well, sir, that is an idea for a Kick A :cool: :cool: thread. Hmm, I've got some pocket ideas to throw out there, but let me try for something a little...

Strictly as a friendly question: How was 3E more simulationist than 2E? I can see details of the one maybe being more world crafty than the other, but even there it's just specific weapon damage vs specific armors of one vs. npc classes (?) for the other.

I'm not entirely sure I buy even this narrower version of the 'more restrictions' argument. From what we've seen all of the 'focus' elements of the character classes are bonuses. I would buy the restricted roles argument if there were corresponding negatives but they don't seem to be there...

I find myself pretty disappointed. I was looking forward to trying the Adventure Path with something other than 3.X. As it is looks like I'm looking forward to whatever up and coming young turk RPG designer/publisher will be 4e's Paizo.

Halfling Rogue. Then multi-classed into either Warlord or Fighter and played as a knife-fighting merchant adventurer. Though, my true horrible temptation is simply to recreate all of the assassin types from Desperado and then kill my PCs with them.

I'm building mine off of North America in the wake of the Columbian plagues. A continent of diverse cultures at all manner of levels of sophistication. Then it gets hit by a plague that wipes out anywhere from 50% to 95% of the populace. The places that survive aren't those that were spared...

Briefly, and IMHO: Depends on where the healing surge comes from: divine aid, espirit de corps, pure desperation, or heroic grit would fit - Paladin & Cleric powers, Warlord Powers, Second Wind, and between encounter surges respectively. All of them come from the inner fortitude afforded by...

I think Leader role, probably arcane. Though, if they go with a new source I could see them splitting the class up so fill out a few more class concepts. Wand Slinger, for instance, as a sort of striker. Infuser for Leader. And a bomb-chucking wind up golem deploying controller type...