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^ Somebody forgot about inspiring warlords... Dragonborn are truly beautiful in this role. Their stats are custom-made for it, they can afford to kick a few points into Con for survivability, and they get a minion-clearer power. They make great Taclords too, with enough points in Charisma to...

I hope the GenCon blurb is in error. 8 races and 8 classes isn't just crunchy goodness, it's symmetry. I thought all the PHBs would have "8 and 8."

Sounds like the smart money is on us getting a Divine Striker...Inquisitor, perhaps? Very cool, there were some 3.5 PrCs along similar lines. I hope Barbarian is a Defender and not a Striker, that makes much more sense to me. Of course, with four Primal classes it's likely there's a Primal...

And two leaders, with the Artificer. I'm disappointed, though, that we're missing either a Primal or Divine Controller. No Divine Controller means that with two Divine classes they are doubling up at least one role. But no Primal Controller would be kind of sad...and it would mean they have...

I don't really follow the OPs logic. If your players are new to the game, odds are they won't even ask about multiclassing. If they do as, you can just say "multiclassing is very different from in 3E and it involves a series of feats." If they insist on wanting to multiclass, you have two...

I've played an Artificer, but only at first level and only in two encounters. They're just as good at healing as Warlords. Unlike the other two, they always want to stay in the back and shoot/distance inspire. I really like Spike Wire (the first level encounter power) but so far it has been...

I'm surprised they didn't put sme sort of "grow wings" paragon or epic feat in there. I'm guessing such a thing is coming, though, considering that one of the MM dragonborn has it.

On my first read-through, I like it, but I was instantly annoyed that there was no Paragon Path. I guess it's multiclassing, house-ruling, or nothing, for now. Still, very nice material.

I'm a fan of the new cosmology, it seems much more classical and flexible than the old one. Although perhaps the best part is that they aren't tied to spellcasting anymore, so you can use whatever planes you please without changing the rules. :P

You. Don't. Get. To. Add. Strength. To. Damage. For. Breath Weapons. Ever.

Bwa? In 3E there was one kind of wizard that didn't suck: one that prioritized Int first, then Con, then Dex (or, possibly, the reverse). Hence, 90% of wizards were budding Olympians, but almost none of them had decent Wis or Cha. Exactly how many wizard-archetype characters in fantasy dumped...

Why exactly can feats count for build diversity when we're talking about 3E, but they can't when we're talking about 4E? As for summoning/necromancing, three things are relevant here: 1) They were changed because they broke the game in the face AND took forever. When one person in the party is...

Frankly, I found the half-hearted simulationist stuff in 3.x pretty difficult to believe. I like the fact that 4e doesn't claim to be accurate at simulating much else than fantasy combat. The fact that there's no standardized "stone" or "adamantine door" stats seems more realistic to...

I used a different hook so I didn't expect it to happen, but my players were being extra-nice to Eilian the Old so I had him ask if they were "friends of Douven's" and tell them about the dig site. So they did an extra good deed and got some extra stuff...I'm not giving them the quest XP but it...

I saw this thread before I ran the encounter so I knew it might be trouble, but I ran it as is anyway. I did laugh maniacally at the players when they said "it's just a goblin." They had a big scare when he used that axe-sweeping move to take out the paladin AND the fighter in the SAME round...

I hope we'll see some future powers and feats that interact with the quarterstaff...and unarmed attacks...and one-handed weapons without a shield or an off-hand weapon. Add them to my list of fixable pet peeves with the PHB. (Personally, I hope to see a new martial defender or striker that...

I'm still playing with 4E builds, but I was surprised at how "mystical" a character intended to be a straight Eladrin Fighter turned out to be. He's a longspear-focused guy who went into Kensei, but I started running out of good feats for him so I looked into Ritual Casting. He needed Arcana...

I'm afraid that they'll go too far with pigeonholing classes into roles and appearances. The rogue write-up was one of the first and only things that gave me a bad feeling about 4E...suddenly rogues should be "brutes" or "tricksters" and you're stuck with "light blades." One of the best things...

^ Some campaign settings have goblin-only or orc-only civilizations as well.

No cost? I DM a game with a warblade (actually, two, but one just has the one level in order to get into JPM) and he couldn't get his maneuvers back because he used a counter the last round to avoid being hit. So he decided to just hope his HP and AC kept him in the fight the next round. It...