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Sort of like Lamarck and the giraffe, eh? :) But beyond that, mushrooms aren't plants, either. I think the standing-meditating-in-the-sun image is cool, but for some different actually-plant race. Really, this whole thing is great, but having this bit in there even as an option hurts my inner...

responding to everything but the classless bit :) This exists — look at many of the Utility powers. I agree that it'd be nice to have a lot more. And it might be nice to allow more of them known, but that's hard for me to judge at this point. There was a thread on this recently. I think the...

So, one other thing to be aware of is that class design is a lot more work than it might be in 3.x, because every class has its own unique selection of powers and feats, all the way up to level 30. Of course, it may be possible to say "the priest can choose cleric powers" or "the knight gets...

Well, yep, there's the rules. I'm not sure "absurd" really applies, though, just very different. They work pretty simply: you take feats which give you minor features of the class, and then further feats which let you swap your powers for powers from that class. What are you trying to...

This is very doable in 4E: e.g., the ritual the evil wizard is casting requires the girl's soul as a focus. Sure, learn that if you want.

I think your *footnote here is pretty important, actually. In my estimation, 4E is a big improvement in this area, because it encourages you to think of the world as a real world and then model it in play with the rules, rather than thinking of the world as purely an expression of the rules.

So, here's where I'm confused. :) On the one hand you say this, but on the other hand you said that giving them the dilettante-stat-swap for free would be too much. What's the middle ground?

Clearly, only the gold kind is too rare to be used for trade.

Hmmm. As a DM, I've gotta say my players were always much better equipped to deal with, say, enervation than my monsters were. Oh, sure, sometimes I could rationalize having an immunity to negative energy, or have an evil cleric with restoration. Or be annoying with heavy-handed SR.

Have you actually played a few sessions of the game? A few tactical-only fights doesn't count — have you tried playing it as a full-on invested-in-your-character RPG? 'Cause the "I read through the books and it's awful!" thing is a perfectly valid opinion and all, but not one with much weight.

My guess is that it's much easier to explain when you don't have to contrast it to taking 20.

It's worded in a confusing way even if English is your first language. They've gone and phrased them both in terms of negatives, and done it differently in both paragraphs. Untangled, it says: If it's possible to draw any line from any part of your square to any part of the target square...

Or make it use Wis modifier up to -4 but not beyond.

I think I'd kick up the badness a notch or two. Maybe make it so the default foremen are neutral — just doing their job and enforcing the natural order — and the benevolent ones as rare or rarer than the cruel ones. And without going the full-on slavery/indentured-servant route, you could still...

cleric flavor More deity-specific feats, powers, and rituals for clerics of different gods. The channel divinity feats in the PHB are a good start, although I wish they came automatically with the class. But they're very minor since they fit the feat balance scale. There could be paragon and...

Heck yes. I want official well-indexed DRM pdfs which are at least as usable as the pirated ones. If they change them to a landscape layout like the recent PDFs on the website, that's cool too, although I do like having the page numbers align.

Alternately with that array, 18 16 13 10 10 8 after racial modifiers. This lets you have an 18 in your primary stat and play a class which doesn't align with your race. I like 16 16 13 11 10 8 as a good general choice — the 13 qualifies you for feats. It's great for one shot adventures, if...

In an earlier thread, WotC folks said they're working on the details of a contract with someone to provide them, and they'll let us know as soon as the deal is inked. Which should be "Soon".

Consider it built-in to the training one receives in ranged weapons. Possible house rule: on a natural 1, you risk hitting an adjacent ally. (If you make a feat to negate that, then, make it do something else as well.)

It might be interesting to add a little more moral ambiguity — as it is, this reads as an allegory about wise and benevolent capitalists and the foolish socialist unionists who don't know how good they've got it and bring about the end of the world by their whining about workers' rights...