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This. Also, on the topic of Rituals, I can already sniff out one more houserule coming: "you can't buy rituals". They'd have to be researched and the vast majority (and likely all the truly powerful ones) would function like a scroll -- one cast and gone. I don't like the idea of being able to...

I upped my shipping to "Standard Shipping" because the pre-order said that the Free Shipping would not go out until the 10th. With Standard Shipping, I should get the books before the Free Shipping books would've been shipped. I felt that was worth the $3. I may go ahead and pick up an extra...

:cool: Thanks for clearing that up. I had a hard time understanding why WotC was taking a more established road. I suppose that's because there's no road established at the moment. Good to know.

Not surprising. Just disappointing.

Don't forget VMWare Fusion. Reportedly it supports DirectX 8.1. Using their Unity feature, it looks like I'm running Windows programs on my Mac. But you will need a copy of Windows XP to load on the VM. Now I don't know how fast VMWare Fusion will be to run something like DDI on -- but it may...

That's what I took away from the demo I participated in. I felt like a member of a team (even among complete strangers) just by the nature of my role and the need/desire to positively contribute. Even if I didn't care about the main objective, I didn't want the Cleric or the Wizard or Fighter to...

It would take a developer to answer this kind of question. All we know about Epic is that it's epic and has some powers that start out "Once per day, when you die..." (assuming the reviewer got that part right). We know a little bit more about Epic based on yesterday's crunch preview. But...

How about Defiling allows a spellcaster to "recharge" a power? Defiling itself is a minor action that does what we all know Defiling does. On the first round, the caster rolls a d6. On a roll of 6, his powers do some sort of recharge (like the monsters get). If he fails the roll, the next...

I like the idea of Dragonborn = Dorn, Sarcosan = Tiefling. Based on what we know, you'd probably have to flip-flop Gnomes and Halflings. In 4e, Halflings are river, swamp folk and Gnomes are near-feral creatures that live in the woods. As far as Half-Elves, I don't see why they couldn't be in...

Thanks for the answers, Mike. It's great to hear the inside stories of what went on in the making of 4e. Maybe you and Dave can share some of the juicy details, hard-fought battles and bloopers on a podcast one day? I find the design process of RPGs pretty fascinating, although I've thrown my...

So... After we've cleverly lured you into our thread.... :] What change (if you can say) met the most opposition? What change did you stick up for the most? Did it make it into the final product? And lastly... What change did you fight hardest against? And how did you feel about the...

By break, I would add 'reduce damage die by one die type'. So a bone dagger (1d4) that breaks drops to 1d3 damage. An obsidian short sword that breaks becomes (effectively) a dagger (1d6 --> 1d4). If/when I get the opportunity to run 4e, I'll be using Levels of Success for to-hit and skill...

Seconded. Great idea, breschau.

Yeah but I think it remains to be seen how those woodsy abilities would work on Athas, where Elves are pretty much nomadic Desert Gypsies. If the fluff of the 4e racial abilities is easy to tweak and the Elven racial abilities could fit into that role, I'd say go for it. Barring that, my...

Good point. Being a Preserver always sucked, though. It took a special kind of nobility of character to portray them in Dark Sun. That said, you're probably right about the penalization thing. Still, I like the idea of defiling being the default and preserving being something a wizard chooses...

Those are both really great ideas. :cool: But instead of increasing action "time" one step. Maybe increase frequency? at-will --> per-encounter --> per-day --> ???

Great stuff. I'd recommend a few more tweaks to the setting. Have Dragonborn replace Muls. Do away with Half-Giants. Half-Giants were always just these big, burly wandering dudes who happened to hook up with a settlement once in a while. Muls sounds much more like what you describe. Make...

If there was a time limit then it would have gone better. The problem was there was no time limit in our demo so the players could roll an infinite number of times until they got either 6 successes or 4 failures. So there was no incentive to take anything other than an Easy difficulty. It was...

Sounds good. I may be able to get a group together in the not-so-distant future. Given my current rpg pals in the area, it might be a bit unorthodox though. Currently, most people I know are pretty big into the indie-rpg thing. A good group of guys. But typically reluctant to do any sort of...

Unfortunately, I'm no longer cool enough to provide groupies. And when I was, I was way too clueless, naive and/or self-involved to understand that we had groupies around. Although I did sit a few girls down once for a game of Call of Cthulhu back in my band days. Two words: Train. Wreck...