Search results

I don't think resource management is going away. Sure, they have added per-encounter abilities, but there are still per-day abilities as well. It's a good bet that the per-day abilities will be better than per-encounter abilities, so if you blow them all on your first fight, you won't have any...

What is the "core D&D experience"? Myself I'd say it's entering a dungeon, killing the monsters, and taking their stuff. What do you think it is?

Red Garden.

Sorry, there was supposed to be a second image there. Fixed.

Judges?

Except, you know, Inu-Yasha.

Ok, my job isn't quite done. Now it's done.

My job here is done.

Here, I'll do it for you. Of course, there are only so many ways to draw what's essentially a metal man, and mechanical objects in anime tend to be less stylized than humans. Still, there are quite noticable differences in texture and detail.

In case some of you are confused, this is anime (well, most of it): This is not anime: Thank you.

please delete this post

I like a lot of monsters in the Miniatures Handbook. They were designed to play a simple role in a battle, rather than having a zillion abilities they'll never use. Since that seems to be the philosophy for all 4e monsters, I won't be surprised to see multiple MH monsters become core. Magma...

Copying my list from the WotC message boards... MM2 Elemental Weird Nimblewright Raggamoffyn MM3 Cadaver Collecter Living Spell Harpoon Spider Poison Dusk Lizardfolk Summoning Ooze MM4 none MM5 Gem Scarab Tirbana Miniatures Handbook Bright Naga Mad Slasher Nothic Other Calzone Golem

"This is my grandfather's D&D. The monsters have been replaced twice, and the rules have been replaced three times, but it is still my grandfather's D&D."

Love the change. Me preparing a recent adventure: "Ok, the big bad guy here is a succubus... I need a little invisibly flying guy to spy on the party. Do I need an imp or a quasit? Wait, is a succubus a demon or a devil?" Anything that will let me remember which fiends are demons and which are...

A perfectly good name. --Xylthixlm (ZIL-thick-selm)

Monsters will not be built like characters, they've been very clear on that. Progression charts for each role will probably exist as an aid to monster designers, but they will give guidelines, not hard numbers. There won't be a formula of the "Look up the stats for the appropriate level on chart...

Take a look at the errata for the monster manuals some time. There are tons of minor fixes where an attack bonus, or damage roll, or skill bonus, or saving throw, or grapple check, or special ability save DC, or any of a hundred other things was off by 1 or 2 because someone forgot that 5 ranks...

Half-right. Portmanteau refers to a word made by taking part of one word and part of another, such as "brunch" or "cyborg". As MerricB posted, the term (in that usage) comes from Through the Looking Glass. "Feywild" and "shadowfell" aren't actually portmanteaus, they're regular compound words.