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The Beetle is a decoy. You go after it, then you're surrounded and attacked by halflings that just outsmarted you with a trained Beetle.

This is the most intelligent thread I've read in ages. I could feel my point of view switch back and forth with each post. I find rules issues like this confusing - I never felt 3rd edition did a good job with swift and immediate actions because the ramifications were never discussed with...

Sounds like the "Lawful good" racist nazi elf in my DragonLance group. Also the DM's girlfriend. But it was the Druid who got nailed for "breaking alignment" Alignment - ruining your game, if you can't all agree on what the 9 boxes represent. With only 5 boxes there should only be HALF as...

I am a DM. I like blue cars. I like 4e.

Religion is about following an ideal. Religious people are forever trying to follow those ideals, but constantly screwing up. What empowers them is that they never give up trying to better themselves.(/evil themselves) A god who smites you for screwing up once is an idiot who will be one of...

Designer 1: "In the grim darkness of the past there was only dragons... who lived in dungeons... but who stole from non-dragons, so disregard the word "only" mentioned previously, ah screw it start over." Designer 2: "You know what would make gnomes cool! They can turn invisible - that way...

I am so glad that alignment is back to its original intent - to give you a framework to imagine your characters overall world view, before you leave it behind and create their personality and actions. I like playing D&D. I don't like playing "your neutral good character wouldn't stab that...

Yeah, you deserve it. If it weren't for this site I would have to visit the D&D official web sites front page. It makes my eyes bleed. Thanks for running my source of nerd news. Are you allowed to give any overall positive impressions you get while reading it? Kind of like how playtesters...

No more weapon speed crap. Wizard got to cast magic missile more than once a day at level 1. the 3.0 rule that said as long as you can carry armor, you don't need to worry about encumbrance as long as you're not hauling treasure. Fighter looked so cool because they got all those feats. By...

Vampire spawn would be easy to do as minions. When you hit them, they are knocked prone. Put the mini on its side. Hit them again and they're history. And recharge :5: , :6: : Minion gets back up to fight again if they haven't been properly dealt with! If you only have 1 hit point, some...

Anything else about a wizard's spellbook. Is it just for being able to choose between alternate powers in the morning, or is there something else that it is used for too?

I think the original poster laid out their argument very well. I understand what he is saying and see where he is coming from. I just simply don't care. But that is because our group of 7pc's just got crushed by about 16 goblins in our first level 1 D& D adventure that we've played in for a...

Storm Giants sound like Thundercloud Shaman, a cool MTG card that comes into play and zaps everthing. Its got a cool picture of a giant walking along with his own personal storm following him.

My jaw dropped when I read this. It made me realise how full of anger and bitterness some posters must be. Honestly I feel like I have to swim through a lot of bile around here when reading about new 4th edition info, when I just want to get info to help me plan my next game. I paused for a...

There's already precedent for magic items with buttons - Rod of Lordly might. No reason why the flaming swords can't have them because it does make a lot of sense. And yes, you can make more complicated items, but that doesn't mean the vast majority of bombs aren't grenades or RPG's. I expect...

I like the article. Magic swords probably just have a switch to turn them on. That would be a hell of a lot easier to make than some voice activated or [gasp] mentally telepathic command response mechanism. And that's just based on real life. I can only assume it would be more complcated to...

Meh. I can see myself rolling a d10 whenever a minion gets hit, and if they get a 0 they survive. Just so its not impossibly easy to know who are minions and who aren't, and there's an element of uncertainty and risk, which should be what an angry mob of monsters should be all about. And if a...

Oh yeah. Bring on the 4e orc goodness. These monsters are more interesting and exciting than half the 3e monster manual, and this is just 3 pages of it. You can just see the axes fly and the shaman chant while the badass bloodrager takes on 3 bloodied pc's by himself. Sooooo much easier to...

I'd have to agree with the other complaints about this new design. I can see that it is more like the look and feel of the new edition, but it is cluttered and reminds me of the new magic site, with too many boxes everywhere. Don't like the menus, or the +/- fiddly clicking. I loved the OP's...

This is how I felt too. I cannot say it any better than this. To WotC: This mock up has everything your site has currently, but does it all better. How is this vision incompatible with your current vision when it is just strictly better? Everything here is the stame stuff, but it feels like...