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Maybe I'm just dense here, but I've been playing D&D in all of its incarnations for 22+ years, and I don't see, at ALL, how 4E is noticeably more "combat-focused" than any previous version. Can someone explain, with specifics?

I agree with you. I think casters (in older versions) and now every character, shouldn't be playing that way. I just think it's mostly got to be incumbent upon the DM to ensure that it doesn't happen. If you simply let the players rest and recharge all of their stuff whenever the heck they...

I'm a die-hard 4E convert. 1. Psionics is one of my favorite things in D&D. Especially in Dark Sun, my favorite setting. 2. Never owned or read it, sorry. 3. Fighters are totally awesome, and my favorite class overall, in every edition. 4. High-level casters in 3.x were insanely...

To explain it in logical, technical terms... ...because it's totally freaking horribly LAME! Heroes in fantasy literature and movies don't stop to sleep for the night after every room full of a half-dozen orcs they clear. If you actually saw protagonists doing that in a story, you'd be like...

31 years old here, been playing religiously since the red box Basic D&D set, in the mid 80's, and my first actual hardcover AD&D book was the 2nd edition PHB which I bought the week it came out. My vote is overwhelmingly for 4th edition. I loved, LOVED, 3rd ed when it came along, and I was...

I see a lot of THIS going on: "I have read the new Better Joy Cookbook and I am devastated to my very core. Their macaroni and cheese recipe, the very macaroni and cheese I've been making since I was in college, has been ravaged and disfigured and left bleeding on the page. Where once it...

I don't get this. What did they do to suddenly eject you from their customer base so forcefully? Is there something about the new edition of the game that you find completely abhorrent, or what?

What do you mean by this?

I'd go at least (x2) on the soap, personally.

In my games, the Martial power source isn't just a way of saying "not magical", but is in fact another kind of magic, an actual POWER SOURCE as such. It's just not an external one, like Arcane and Divine. It comes from within the user, from his or her own body, life force, and driving inner...

I like all of the changes, pretty much. I'd say they could have gone farther in one area in particular, and that's the rest requirement issue. Yeah, they did a lot toward reducing the 15-minute-workday syndrome, but not enough. Moving even more towards a resource management model which allows...

I prefer to run games where true magic-using individuals are very rare and special. One in a million people, perhaps. Armies would essentially never expect to have to contend with an enemy wizard, and if there was one, it would be a Big Scary Deal. However, given D&D 4E mechanics, longbows...

Tales From The Floating Vagabond, IMO.

Target audience, eh? Hmm. For the last six or eight years, WotC's "target audience" for D&D seems to have been including more and more cute young girls. Since they've managed to achieve this without making the game less fun or appealing for an old-school gamer like myself, I consider all of...

Greetings fellow gamers! My name is Josiah, and I'm planning to run at least a couple of new 4th edition Dungeons and Dragons campaigns in the very near future. I live in Littleton, Colorado, so I am looking for players who also live in the Denver area, or perhaps even Boulder or Colorado...

56 double-sided counters made of the same awesome stuff as the Dungeon Tiles, plus a few extra DU1 tiles? Sold. Throwing in some dice, and whatever else comes in the box is gravy. I can give that stuff to the next new-to-D&D player I get.

Wow, awesome idea! Those look pretty, too. I'd love to see a nice customizable template for something like this.

Wow, I really like this! What a cool idea, and it's gorgeously designed as well. Great work, and thanks!

Sure. Go here and get the latest version of Magic Set Editor, for free. Then go here and get Ander's power card templates for it.

Dark Sun! Please, please please. I've been waiting for 12 years for the re-emergence of official Dark Sun products updated for the new rules of the day. Dark Sun was the best campaign setting ever published, but it was ahead of its time. The majority of the gamer fanbase wasn't ready for...