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In our play experience, combats have been about the same length as in our 3.5 games, and I expect them to get faster once there's less stopping every other round to look up new or changed rules. Much faster, in fact.

Depends how hard it is to produce a PDF in whatever document system they're using, I suppose. It seems like a good workflow would make that easy, and the changes could basically be inserted as they're developed, and new PDFs produced in parallel with the errata-list documents. This might be a...

That strikes me a quite strict reading.

Yeah, that's really what the players' argument comes down to. One way to make the "don't cheat" a little more harsh but still allow some flexibility would be to say that if you choose to engage by moving towards rather than attacking, you must attack your next turn or suffer the divine...

It's a good test of whether Dragon material is really going to be first class / completely canon in practice.

I e-mailed the people selling 'em to ask, and they didn't know. They did point to the "free update PDFs" I could download -- but, uh, that's the same thing we're all looking at. If real, integrated updated PDFs do happen, both soon and with an indication that it'll be done regularly, I can...

So, we had a little uncertainty about this rule in our game group last night. Divine Challenge says: On your turn, you must engage the target you challenged or challenge a different target. To engage the target, you must either attack it or end your turn adjacent to it. If none of these events...

+1 to this. If you make the house rule specific enough ("When wielding a heavy thrown weapon, you may use Str instead of Dex for ranger powers which normally use Str for melee attacks and Dex for ranged attacks.") I can't even think of a time when it would be absurd.

Forked from: The grindyness of 4e combat: anyone tried a solo monster yet? So, flip the above on its head. If you don't have defenders, keep the monsters that hit hard to below the normal expectation. If you don't have controllers, keep the minions to a minimum. And if you don't have...

In other words, it's basically a setting thing. For my second 4E campaign, I'll probably develop a more complicated system of languages, because I (and my players, at least to some degree!) find that fun. But for now, I'm sticking roughly to the default setting — but I'm willing to bend for good...

So, am I missing something, or is the restriction on supernal and abyssal at first level (i.e., without the Linguist feat) basically a "default campaign setting" feature and not a mechanical limitation? That is, is there any particular reason these languages are actually more powerful, other...

Rituals I'm still hearing the "it's primarily a tactical minis game!" complaint a lot around here (here=irl, not enworld). The background stuff is nice (eladrin city, blah blah blah), but what's we're really missing is solid game functionality for out-of-combat character abilities. With the...

Which, frankly, sucks as an alternative.

I've had some things with free shipping come media-mail rate, and other times not. No idea how they decide. I'm not really in a hurry, as someone else in our group bought the core set individually, and I went to my local store day-of and bought the PH (can't hurt to have another for the group)...

Hmmm. Looks like the original, individual PDFs are unchanged.

Got a message this morning (dated 00:55:02 PDT) confirming that my preordered core rulebooks finally shipped. I chose the free shipping, and it says they'll arrive on the 5th, but they shipped out of Springfield MA and I'll be surprised if it takes that long to get to Boston.

This fits the original class pretty well, but seems awfully powerful. My intuition is that it's the route to a lot of unexpected overpowered synergy.

It's like people who play the money-for-free-parking house rule in Monopoly, and then complain that the game lasts forever. :)

The other DM in our group and I also have this suspicion based on our little playtests, but are holding back judgement for now. It may be that when players are more familiar with what they can do, the damage is stepped up significantly. That said, encounter design needs to match the party. If...

But if everyone's view of the message is special^H^H^H^H^H valid, than no one's ... never mind.