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I was *this* close to getting a seat at Mearl's table for that adventure. My table took the dragon, but it was rough. Great encounter, and the encounter was nearly prophecized by a member of our table when he commented "I've seen a lot of dungeons tonight, but no dragons."

This seems to be coming up in multiple threads, so I thought I'd make a dedicated one as to how it all works from what I saw. Every character gets a number of healing surges per day (no idea how the number is derived) and a set number of hit points each surge is worth (once again I don't know...

TerraDave: I think I was in the bar at the same time as you. I was the guy sitting alone on the other side of Rob and Mike. I thanked you and your friend for asking the hard questions so I didn't have to. I got Rob's name when I got up to go, but had no clue the other guy was Mike. I'm such a...

I'm probably too deep into this thread to have much hope of my post being read, but... I'll give you Thievery, that should probably have been recommended rather than automatic. As a DM I would likely let someone who wanted to use the class more as a skirmisher than a thief choose another skill...

I really like the new power system, and the fact that everyone gets some flashy tricks rather than just the casters. I couldn't be more pleased as someone who would always have prefered to play a melee type character but typically played casters as the melee classes got boring. I think the...

I'd love to see some low level solo monsters. As soon as I saw this topic I thought about the whole "wolf pack vs a bear" scenario and how that would emulate really well if wolves were standard animals and the bear were a solo animal.

This doesn't seem like such a big deal to me. While I have always wanted to do a swords and sandals homebrew setting, where a shield was your primary and sometimes only armor, most generic games I've played in has seen the Fighters drooling over increasingly bulkier armors. If you want to play...

I know that there will be some fantastic elements to martial characters, particularly at higher levels when they are expected to be doing legendary deeds... but I'm hoping the fantastic nature of those deeds isn't as obvious as striking the ground and causing an explosion at the feet of your...

I'd love to see familiars that could... Defend their master. Larger animals like wolves or mountain lions that act as guardians, or golem-like constructs. Have symmetry with their master. More fragile creatures, like fairy dragons or humunculous, that can cast limited spells/rituals. Be the...

I think "controller" was a horrible word choice, which is causing a lot of confusion, and the role in general could probably have been done without. A lot of what is being attributed could have been folded into the other 3 roles as secondary combat choices.

I like the idea of them as optional and ignorable. I like the idea of them as more powerful and useful, more like a cohort than a critter living in your pack. Shadowrun makes use of familiars in an interesting way. They aren't required, and they have many more uses in play. I don't want an...

The difference is that most believable martial controller can only control the vicinity near them. Some of the proposed powers would allow them to control as much area as they could traverse in a round. A ranged controller can control the battlefield, which I think is the real prerequisite in my...

I think it could do well in Primal too, given the right fluff. Wasn't there a rage based arcane prestige class? Maybe sorcerer could kill it and take some of it's stuff, for more primal goodness.

Do we have confirmation that Sorcerer is arcane? It makes sense given it's current state, but the title is generic enough that they could take it almost any direction to divide it further from Wizard. Bard (leader) and Swordmage (defender) seem likely, unless covered elsewhere (but my...

First. I think a middle option would cloud things, in my experience everyone but the extremists vote for the middle when it exists. I wanted numbers representing the extreme that folks would most willingly accept, or want the game to strive for, knowing that in the end the middle is where the...

Class granularity refers to how few, or how many, classes are available in the game. More classes equal more granularity. So, in the past couple of years, we seem to have seen both extremes of this issue. Extremely low granularity systems with only one real character class were typically not...

A lot of folks have explained why so many of the classes that are not confirmed will likely be of other power sources. I agree with most of that. I especially like illusionist as a shadow power source caster, rather than another arcane caster. I'm hoping we don't see a ki power source, and think...

Hmmm... maybe they could pair down vermin and animals into a single entry, something similar to (but maybe a little more robust than) the Creature entry in SWSE that will allow any GM to approximate a critter, if needed, in a quick -build-your-own fashion? I think I'd be okay with that. I still...

I live in VA, and will be going Thursday. I'm signed up for both of the Realms 4E events on thursday. I may come back one day on the weekend to check out the dungeon crawl. I'm looking forward to maybe meeting some ENworlders, and local gamers in general.

I'm going to be inferring as much of the PoL as possible, but I've given a little thought to this. Humans My setting revolves around a city-state founded by a traditional western-fantasy human culture from across the sea a couple of hundred years ago. The human empire was strong then, but has...