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A very good CNC mill ought to have the accuracy needed to do fine carving, so I could definitely believe this; I wouldn't be surprised if they're renting time on a high-end mill rather than buying their own. And it occurred to me later that this 3D printer would be just right to pump out 5x5...

Wow! that's very cool. The examples don't look very detailed, though (for gaming minatures, that is). For an early-generation product, though, it's awesome. In the related field of CNC milling is this...

True, but something that was adequate at both toe-to-toe fighting and blasting woudl be a defender/controller mix. Which might be best handled via straight multiclassing--and it sounds like (from the playtest's Warlord/Wizard) that you can be useful in both classes. I guess I'm suggesting that...

Actually, I want them connected to the elements--I *want* the fantasy world to have it's own 'Magi-Physics' rather than be 'Real World Physics + Magic' (I had enough of that back in 1st ed!). Atone point I started working on this: Acid was Fire + Water, Lava = Fire + Earth, Lightning was Fire...

I'll definitely stick with a grid--a *hex* grid! BTW, I don't suppose that your counter set is downloadable?

How about 'Trouble Consultants'? ;)

That always struck me as weird, too: if it doesn't cost gp, it's assumed you've got it--but some of those items aren't exactly 'common': the blessed leather thingy for the Armor spell, or the Dragon Scale for several Dragon Something Something spells in Spell Compendium. Count me in the 'drop...

That may be true of 3.5 'forged, but maybe not for 4e: there's a quote (that I can't find right now) that in a playtest that a 'forged's DR blocked Poison Damage (and something else)--which is a strange thing to say if the character was already immune to poison! I have a feeling that 'forged...

Wow! with 84 votes in, 90% are starting at 1st level. Sounds like WotC was right to ditch the conversion guide!

Corollary: if it sinks into the swamp (falling over, burning optional) I will find a new location to build (after killing the real estate agent, of course).

Am I the only person who's picturing all your class abilities being readied in their underground concrete silos to be launched at the Soviets the attacking orc mobs? I can just see it now: klaxons blare, the ground parts, fireballs shoot out engulfing the orcs in flame! :D OK, maybe I'm just...

I think it's less that D&D is more fantastical, but that Fantasy in general is more fantastic than it used to be. Compare Frodo/Sam/Merry/Pippin as protaganists of the Lord of the Rings to Rand al'Thor (and hanger-ons)! Of course, a lot of things we mere mortals do these days are quite a bit...

Nifty theory! I like the Elf/Eladrin split; it's a nice homage to Tolkien. Besides, it captures something that's become very common in how D&D tends to be run: that most elves are Forest/Nature centric, rather than a lofty, mystical people. Now, given that Eladrin seem to be quasi-planar...

IIRC, back in the 1st edition DMG there was a paragraph of explaination of the overload of the word 'level'; in which they had tried to use alternate descriptions (Rank, Order, Sphere, etc.) and found that it was incredibly confusing. Besides, context really should be enough in most cases...

At a raw guess, given the description of the 21-30 bracket as Epic: The real earthshaker spells will move up into this range. They've also indicated that casters scale back at high levels, which would also indicate that the earthshaker-type spells would be in some way limited, probably by moving...

Looks like we keep the same scale (3-18 as the 'base range') but that a typical character will have better stats at 1st level. Does this hint at a higher point value, 5d6 drop 2, or something else entirely? Hmmm, maybe instead of having races set up with +2/-2 pairs they get +4, +2x4, +0? or...

Interesting idea! And PoL is ideal for fan-build: since the various locales interact weakly and have limited knowledge of each other, it becomes very easy to drop in (or exclude) any particular town, castle, tower, ruin, dungeon, lake, sea, island, etc. In fact, it would probably be a good...

I like this idea. (Does Hennet's bucklesuit count as armor?). Saga-like armor rules would support that pretty well, too.

So the official ENWorld playtest group is: Crothian, Rystil Arden, Hypersmurf, Bront, Thanee, and Piratecat? That'd be fun game, I bet! ;)