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Interesting. So what you suggest is - perhaps - that every level the PC gains 1 point buy value point. They can use it immediately to increase a low stat, or they can save them up to increase a higher stat. So, if all PCs start at level 1 with Point-Buy 25 (as an example, it may be as high as...

Any one else notice this: Feywild - a place high in Arcane magic Astral Sea - the domains of which hold the deities that are the source of Divine magic Shadowfell - the source of Shadow magic Elemental Chaos - possibly the source of Primal magic? Leaving only Martial, Ki, and Psi without a...

It is the difference between using a well known and liked Product Identity and starting anew while allowing a well liked and known Product Identity to fade due to lack of support. The fact that they altered (literally) everything except most of the coastline and the names of a few NPCs...

His survival is astonishing, but consider the work needed to keep him from dying during the following hours (effectively replacing all the blood in his body - twice, nine operations needed to put his body back together again, etc). Of course, from how he is described ("strong and athletic"), it...

One thing I've noticed is that using gold coins to purchase everyday items (backpack, sword, etc) lowers the worth players associate with it. Finding 100 gp after an encounter with a bandit group is nothing of note. But if you have most items bought with silver (after having adjusted the prices...

I'll likely ignore this race, replacing with another of my own design (fluff and mechanics - including actual half height). One idea that occurs to me is placing Halflings as much in jungles as in swamps. Give them traits well suited to a warm, humid environment, and perhaps some other traits...

Why call them 'halflings' in the first place? 3.5e increased dwarves to short human normal height. Now in 4e gnomes are dropped and 'halflings' have been increased to short human normal height. Really, there are no more short races - not in the sense of fantastically short. Get a human on the...

Now *that* is how a green dragon *should* look! Thanks, Klaus!

Brain storming a bit here . . . Some seem to dislike the randomness of per encounter abilities - the fact that it may be once per 3 rounds or (uncommonly) once per 3 minutes or (quite rarely) even once per 13 minutes; the fact that multiple "once per encounter" abilities can be used one after...

Poison? I would have sworn that I had seen mentioned (in more than one place) that Poison was to be a damage type in 4e. Has it been replaced with Necrotic, perhaps?

When I read what they were considering for the Green Dragon in W&M, I presumed a more serpentine look (due to the mention of snake fangs, etc for the venom / poison idea they are now focused around). The new green dragon design (if that *is* the new design? maybe it is not too late for them to...

I'm guessing half-elves and half-orcs will be covered in 2009. The Race/Class book seems to suggest that barbarians and druids will be covered then, and the former - at least - is often associated with orcs/half-orcs. Also, Eberron is covered in that year, and both half races - as I recall -...

You need to decide for yourself about the commonality of various creatures in your world. If every dungeon has a rust monster - or even just one in four or five in that part of the world, then it is likely that he has heard of such creatures (albeit with some misinformation mixed in). If rust...

The warlock hearkens back to the more sinister tales and legends of the middle ages and renaissance - with the exception of its eldritch blast. While I understand why such may be necessary in a more typical D&D setting (to allow for survival), I wish to alter or perhaps even remove it so that...

Look also to the reasons for which the setting was arranged as it was. As I understand it, in 2e the Ethereal was virtually a prison by itself. There was no access to any outter planes from the ethereal; it was the link between the inner elemental planes (which seem to have been almost as empty...

On the other hand, you can also play up all the penalties for full vampirism. Can he enter Castle Ravenloft without Stradh's permission, for example? What about the lack of reflection and shadow, the need to sleep during the day, being damaged by sunlight, holy water, and garlic, being damaged...

Regarding my earlier statement of the races on the cover ... I have not kept up with all updates on what 4e will be like (as, for a while, it seemed to change week to week - sometimes seemingly contradicting earlier statements), so I had not yet seen the dragonborn pics. However, when I looked...

The changes to the timeline are the least of the changes they had planned for faerun. Whether moved forward ten years or a hundred years - that is of little import compared to the death (&/or personality rearrangement) of 80+% of the deities and major NPCs, disruption &/or destruction of...

I don't like the cover. I also wonder why they only have the new races on the cover [dragonborn and tiefling] and why there are only two in the party when WotC has said that 4e presumes 4 or 5 PCs in a party? On the plus side, the cover does focus on the role of roles in combat (note how the...

Perhaps by 'dead world' the poster was referring to such an extreme change that it may as well be a new setting - such as is now known to be the case with faerun. On the other hand, it wouldn't take much to reduce Eberron to a 'Points of Light' setting. Just destroy that city of towers and...