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An alternative to a divine monk would be a friar, like in Dark Ages of Camelot. A lightly armored mendicant priest who uses simple weapons like the quarterstaff. I also think a witch hunter or inquisitor would be a good idea. Maybe he'll mug the archivist and take his dark knowledge ability...

I really honestly don't think we're going to get a martial controller. I can't see one unless you lump alchemy in with martial. The Swordmage will definitely be an arcane defender, and the Bard will most likely be an arcane leader, although I don't think arcane has 100% been confirmed. As to...

The Ranger: Green Arrow The Wizard: Dr. Strange The Barbarian: Tarzan

Some very good answers. I think the bard could go either way, myself. If he is shadow, though, it would mean that shadow would be a definite for the PHBII.

After reading over the bard description in R&C and the description of the Shadow power source in W&M, it seems like Shadow would be a more natural fit for the bard than arcane. The bard deals with deception and trickery and that seems like Shadow's forte. Has it ever been confirmed that the...

The names of the warlock powers seem very Howardian. It seems some folks at Wotc have been reading a lot of Conan lately.

The tough thing about the barbarian in 3e is that he was a hybrid striker/defender. On the one hand, he dished out a lot of damage, but on the other he was a frontline fighter. Typically, many barbarian players I knew would rage, charge into combat with a power attack, and then keep pounding...

The only dragons being left out of the MM are Brass and Bronze. There will be two new metallics: Iron and Adamantine. This has been confirmed in Worlds and Monsters.

I think part of the touchiness is that some gaming groups have split when people in the group want to move in different directions. When gaming groups split, people tend to blame the other faction for splitting up the group. The "Let's try something new" vs the "Let's not" is probably the most...

Frankly, I don't care if 4e feels like D&D or not. What I care about is whether it is good. All the name D&D means to me is that I can easily buy stuff for it and easily find players for it. That and the blissful nostalgic memories I get when I think about when my dwarf fighter killed my...

One idea would be to have powers summon minions. Thus a necromancer could raise a whole horde of skeletons out of the ground and there wouldn't be a lot of bookkeeping; one hit they're gone. But more powerful summoning would be a ritual. If the same necromancer wanted to bind a mummy into...

Now if you can do a whole campaign setting for 4e with a first edition feel...

After looking over the DDXP characters, I think I'll go with a human wizard.

I like the clerc pregen. I like the fact that turning is based on Wis rather than Cha (Cha-based turning was too MAD for me). I like that with the new best of two scores for defense scheme, the cleric actually has a reason to take a decent Int. I like that healing is a minor action.

My thoughts are they are putting it in the FRPG so that those people who absolutely have to have it will buy the book regardless of whether they want to use the Realms or not. I hope they will reprint it in the PHBII for those who want the class yet will not buy the Realms book.

My speculations: Cleric: Frontline vs leads from the rear. Fighter: Two handed weapon vs weapon and shield. Paladin: Haven't the foggiest. Ranger: Melee vs archer. Rogue: Brawny vs trickster. Warlock: Haven't the foggiest. Warlord: Tactical vs inspiring. Wizard: Haven't the foggiest.

One possible plus for INT, is that it is insinuated in R&C that characters add their INT bonus to trained skills, thus someone untrained in Dungeoneering would just add his WIS bonus while someone who is trained adds both their INT and WIS bonuses.

Commonerzilla.

Dragonborn fighter or warlord, maybe a wizard. I like big ugly guys. But then again, I AM a big ugly guy :).

My reasons for going over to 4e: - A lot more flavor than 3e. As fantasy goes, 3e left me feeling kind of dry. - Getting rid of CR's and wealth by level. - Divorcing role from concept. This was a bigger problem in 2e than in 3.x, where you had groups and all priests tended to be aimed as...