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U_K! Good to see something coming along. The cover art looks fantastic; A bit of a stylistic clash with the previous covers, but interesting nonetheless. I hope to see you get this book out before 5E. :) On a more serious note: Is there going to be much internal artwork in this new bestiary...

I don't believe there has been any official word as to their origin. (I would guess any such article would get a lot of discussion, as others like your DM would be curious) Expertise is a feat for those who don't like to miss. 4E is a team game, and the party needs to work together to...

When you expend a power is not exactly covered in the rules. This is NOT M:TG. There is no stack. There is merely a vague Order of Operations that govern what to do. The rules are silent in this case as much as they are silent about crafting. (in 4E) This leave the players/DM with deciding...

I had a friend who I gamed with (3E/3.5) for 2-4 years. When I moved, I threw out a lot of the old pointless character sheets. Of his, ~17 out of 20 DIFFERENT Characters were some combination of Drow and/or Dervish. He was a Drizzt fan, and admits it. I didn't have any problem with his playing...

I don't want to thread-jack any more, so I'll throw my post in a spoiler in case anyone wants to read it or whatever. As someone who has dabbled in programming myself, I fully understand your metafore. Heck; I've got a better one (still in programming-speak, and speaking only on the...

U_K! What kind of question is that? Of course we want to see them. However, I think it would be best if you kept it to the usable (sane?) level range. Alternately, you could try to condense the angels in level as to fit more in at most ranges. Example: If your first 4 epic angels were: A Lvl...

U_K! Good to know you are getting something done. It sounds pretty awesome. Now, here's a question: I know for your 3E IH you did quite a bit of research and discussion. (Logs on enworld go back quite a bit:)) Do you think that the streamlined 4E system makes up for the lost work on 3E in...

Just make Legendary Leap an encounter power. Seriously. If moving ~50-70 squares each encounter isn't enough, you just didn't have a chance to begin with. (As an example of how extreme that is, I have a Large Chessex battle mat, which is 34x46 squares; 160 squares of movement circles the entire...

Even if you don't know what role composition the party will have, make whatever class you want; In a setup like LFR, it probably won't hurt anything. Say you make a Ranger. And everyone else at the group makes rangers. A party of 3-6 Strikers is still a valid party, it's just that your tactics...

I don't use the default setting, but the Homebrew setting I use is so close that with handful of name-changes for deities and planes it may as well be. Sometimes I might pull something from the core fluff (like an NPC calling herself the Raven Queen) but for the most part, I continue to use...

IMO, I don't think you are missing anything. Pricing feats is like splitting hairs; It isn't easy. +3 to one skill vs +2 to two skills is one thing. How about Widen spell vs Heighten Spell. Both are situational. My best suggestion: Make them all cost whatever is about equivalent to "1 feat" and...

Graz'zat's stats are there purely as his attributes in combat. If you, as a DM, need Graz'zat to open a portal to the Prime Material Plane and flood it with evil outsiders, you can just have him do it. (A ritual no doubt) But when it comes time for the PCs to take the Fight to Graz'zat, he's not...

The monster 'scare' of 4E is not in the individual monster. Sure, a Bodak can kill you if certain conditions are met, and the basilisk is pretty nasty on its own. But the scare in 4E comes from the combination of monsters. See 1 ghoul? Worry. See 4 Ghouls, and a Wight? Run away! Also, come of...

I think making a monster drain wisdom (or any other score) sets bad precedent; In some situations, it is more powerful or less powerful, but in all of them, it will slow combat to a crawl. Also, AFAIK, there are no rules for ability score loss, or the loss of prerequisites (only rules for...

U_K! I understand communication issues are huge in a project like this, but thats no reason to do all the hard work yourself. Writing still has to be done by you, but sometimes, like with the 3E IH, some of the stuff in older versions needed pre-release-revising. (Simply unforeseeable...

As someone who has played wizards from 2E on, I can tell you that this is always what a wizard will do. :) It always has been, and pretty much always will be, the most ideal strategy for a wizard. If you want to pressure the wizard a bit more, as others have suggested, run an encounter that...

U_K! Good to hear that you are getting stuff done. (or are atleast planning to try to attempt to get something done :P) I like that you have a gameplan for how to handle the books you want to attempt. One minor bit concerns me slightly: As with the 3E Immortal's Rules Set, you are writing and...

Here's the way I see it: 1 - Since a player can substitute a Move action for a Standard action, he or she can move twice in one turn. Example: a - Move action b - Minor action c - Standard action -> Move action 2 - With a double move, you essentially are moving twice. PH 284 uses terminology...

Well, if you think this isn't an apropriate tactic, there are a number of things that make this somewhat pointless. 1. Cost of crossbows. Eventually, the character may want to buy a +1 or better crossbow. If he or she doesn't, they probably can't hit their target very easily. Having a single +5...

Tiamat's stats were, IMO, pretty interesting. One of the things they flat-out say is that deities break the rules (hence her 5 headed nature). I haven't seen any playtest logs or anything to confirm if her stats are accurate, but she looks really tough. (If only because against a slow party, she...