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My day went like this... Wife: "Honey, I'm headed to the store. Do you want me to pick you anything up?" Me: "Yeah. Can you go to Borders or Barnes & Noble? Some guys online are saying they've been able to buy this D&D book that isn't supposed to be released until Tuesday..." Wife: "Sure, I...

This sounds really cool. Doing an all-Martial campaign in a hacked-up Midnight setting would be a lot of fun. It solves the magic question by saying no one gets magic (outside of rituals and -- maybe -- some of the multi-classing feat choices). As far as Half-Elves go, I've rethought what I...

This is how I'm planning to do this as well. Sounds like a great way to make Magic Items meaningful too. I don't want some random +1 sword that I'll hock as soon as I find my +3 sword in the next dungeon. I want Ice from Game of Thrones or Sting from LotR. I want items with a history and a...

Well said. Count me as someone who is perplexed by the degree of ire this thread has raised. It's all boiled down into two simple points... 1) D&D has always treated PCs as being "better" than common folk. No one ever started out as a farmboy in D&D using rules-as-written. 2) Hacking this...

Ah. But Conan was a zero at some point. We're just not introduced to that point of his history. Some groups might find flashbacks and stuff unfulfilling. That's cool. Playstyles vary. But the difference between having a rule for flashbacks versus starting everyone at Level -1 is that those...

Thanks for clearing that up. I've read a whole bunch of REH's stuff but wasn't sure if I'd missed something along the way. Your comments about Conan's participation in the sack of Venarium kind of illustrates a side point I've been pinging. Why can't this zero-to-hero thing be handled by some...

Check out my first and second post in this thread. Those should answer your concerns. In summary, once Martial Power is out, playing in a low magic setting should be a matter of figuring out how you'll be doling out the magic bonuses. According to Mearls, that takes all of 20 minutes. And...

The Conan thing could easily be handled by a Flashback mechanic. At an appropriate time, the Player narrates a Flashback to their youth to earn an Action Point or some other thingamabob. Limit it to once per session (or adventure) and you're good to go. Besides, that scene in the movie didn't...

Ah... Then stick around for the "Martial Power" book. That will widen the spectrum for Martial characters and then you can run an all-Martial campaign with only Rituals and really Black, Dark, Evil Magic available in the setting. Things like at-will Eldritch Blasts would only be available to...

Fair enough. But there was certainly no "Rat Catcher" class that we all started out in until we became Thieves or (later) Rogues. I can understand the matter of "feel" but in the game it was mostly a matter of flavor. "I'm playing a 1st level thief and I'm an Orphan Pickpocket" "Bob's playing...

I have the same sort of concern but in retrospect I would argue that D&D has always been about taking someone who was a weak Hero to more powerful levels of being a Hero. Sure, we started out as 1st-Level Magic Users. But we never started out in an "Apprentice" class or a "Rat Catcher" or...

I'll be getting KotS when it comes out for a number of reasons. First, I'd like to see a 4e adventure to get a feel for how they go about adventure design in the new edition. It's the reason I read all the sample adventures in a book. Whether or not I take that and run with it for my own...

I love M&M. Always have. It's a great game. I'd still wouldn't mind WotC putting out a Marvel RPG. I was really into MURPG (and am still quite fond of TSR's FASERIP Marvel game). But MURPG was rushed and never felt finished to me. It still needed a lot of work before it saw print. And FASERIP...

Maybe you can just forward them a link to these forums? Sometimes the suits really need to interface with the peeps to get an idea of how they're being perceived outside of the boardroom. Or heck forward WotC this thread. Gleemax is just as representative of their DI as it is of Gleemax -- as...

Gah! Never heard of it. 'Life Points' weren't mentioned in the 'Design & Development' article on Death & Dying either. Sounds like the Delegate took the gist of the Death & Dying rules and filled them in with whatever struck his/her fancy.

Cool. Thanks for the update, keterys. The one problem I can see with development "behind closed doors" is that it often looks to the public like no work is being done. Especially considering that the Alpha is sitting out there, warts and all, to frustrate potential customers. Maybe you can...

I'm guessing the latter. That thread was started, what, 6 months ago? Last time I checked (and that was 30 seconds prior to this post) pretty much everything everyone says about gleemax in this thread is still true. They even still have "alpha" in their logo. Considering my current company...

Hi Joe: Thanks for the review and for keeping an open mind about 4e -- despite what sounded like a couple of glitches. One thing I noticed about the demo I played compared to many others in this forum is that the demo DMs never seem to do the Skill Challenge the same. I mean, what you described...

What he said. :D

I'd say... D: Drow? Maybe a different write-up from the FRCS? Otherwise, maybe Dromite. G: Githzerai or Githyanki (not sure, maybe both) G: Gnome H: Half-Orc S: Shadar-Kai These fit in with including the races that were left out of PHB1 as well as the Primal, Shadow and Psionic power sources...