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Aha! There's an Essentials Assassin article listed now. That's new. Perhaps that "playtest" was a brief one... Living documents - full of surprises. The full Dragon and Dungeon ToCs are up now too.

Ah, I suppose so! Well, it should be interesting to see how the full Hexblade fairs in play, anyway. We should know soon enough.

No more so than the Bard... This doesn't seem like abnormal or abominable game design to me. I certainly don't see how a slight AC "deficit" would instantly mark the class as a mechanical failure even if it did exist. As for it being a melee-focused striker... I don't see the big problem with...

The Binder was probably the class I had the most fun playing in 3.5. Right now though, I'm trying to figure out good ways to make a Vestige pact for Hexblades, and it presents challenges... As for the 3.5 Hexblade, I had a few concepts I wanted to try with it, and I liked the flavour, it was...

They tried to improve tacos by making those flat bottomed ones, but they just wind up snapping in ways that send shards of hardened corn into my cheeks and palate. Broken and unfun.

The November Content Calendar just went up. Two warlock articles in one month? Delicious. (One introduces the Star Pact for Hexblades, the other... time will tell.) Also that Cavalier article that was pushed back, Winning Races articles for Wilden and Deva, and a bunch of assumed setting...

The adventure is titled "Cairn of the Winter King", and it's for 4th level characters. That's all I can gather from what they've previewed.

This would be pretty surprising, given that it would make their current stat bonuses (STR + CHA) impossible. Unless, of course, these Drachen you speak of are somewhat different than Dragonborn... in which case, sure!

I'm not discounting the possibility that this is now softcover, but didn't they just release a 144 page hardcover for $19.95 in August? (Dark Sun Creature Catalog) Is it unrealistic that for five dollars more we could get 16 more pages?

Would you have? They were already starting to experiment heavily with power structure in PHB3 - how are you sure they wouldn't have gone as far in PHB4 as the Hot books did? What was to stop them from deciding to preferentially design feats as heroic tier and scaling? They may have even decided...

I'm sorry, but I'm just not ready for that kind of commitment. As for the various potentials of class compendiums, I wonder if "grants non-D&D Essentials characters access to class features from Heroes of the Fallen Lands and Heroes of the Forgotten Kingdoms" means I could eventually build a...

Pardon my ignorance, folks, but... why does it matter whether it's a new game? If the material is compatible with the current game and compelling enough to warrant purchase and use, then why not use it? If too much of the material feels redundant, or isn't palatable to your gaming...

Core set? Sweet dreams of box-set expansions in the format of the upcoming Gamma World ones dance inside my head... :) and so, I am even more excited than I was. (Which was very. Looking forward to it.)

Excellent. I'm very happy rituals will be making a comeback, and I really like the new paperback format. ($20-25 pricing makes things like this very viable as gift options. And they're so cute and small...) I look forward to having this around the gametable. (Along with whatever future class...

It's from one of the "Player's Handbook Heroes" nonrandom miniatures boxes. (Arcane Heroes 1) Pretty obscure in terms of print availability, but it got a lot of love from the Character Optimization forums. You can see it here. Anyway, as for the Hexblade, I'm betting it will be Arcane and...

That would be interesting, but it seems like that would make for a fair number of powers printed for the third time. Unless, of course, they simply replaced those that were reprinted in HotFL or HotFK with new content. It may just be the distinctiveness of calling this "Heroes of Legend", but...

Well, what we know so far is that Heroes of the Fallen Lands says that the Warlock build Heroes of the Forgotten Kingdoms contains is the "Hexblade". That name will be familiar to people who owned 3.5's Complete Warrior, but whether it has any resemblance to the class in that book is yet to be...

I like the cover art, but it doesn't give me much insight as to what we're looking at contents-wise. Are they reworking/rereleasing some of the 4e classes that weren't touched upon in the Essentials line? Are they creating new builds for classes that were examined in HotFL/HotFK? New...

Someone just found this on the WotC forum. (EDIT - Berenmir, in this thread) Not sure what it is yet, but if that release date is accurate it's surprising we didn't already have info on it. Here's the Amazon page. February 2011? Thought it might make for some interesting speculation. Let's...

Just to clarify, nowhere did I draw the conclusion that "new web-based tools system" means they're going to replace the Character Builder with an online-only tool. I only indicated that if they were to take that course of action they would lose me as a subscriber. I'm wary, but I'm not one to...