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This is cogently expressed, but I'd have to day that I dislike the idea of Evil for Evil's sake: I want them to have a purpose that's evil or a reason to hate everything. The Evil of their nature should spring from their nature, not be defined by some existential evil. Which is what I'm seeing...

You've got a point about parellellism (most things take the forms they have because that's what solves the problems!). But, I'd have been happier if: 1. The 'magic train' had more naturally arisen from existing D&D magical systems; 2. If they were less obviously 'mass-produced' and more diverse...

They may have wanted to tone down the sci-fi elements that had crept in; if so, then I suspect that 4e psionics will have less pseudo-science and more fantasy elements. (This would also be consistent with renaming Sonic -> Thunder, too). I didn't mind the sci-fi aspects, but I can see how they...

I'm expecting the reverse: per-attack damage to decrease noticeable in 4e. Mostly so that combats last longer! Having said that, I wouldn't be surprised if the D&D rules gave it Fire Resistance 20; the Spined Devil has that much (and it used to be Immune, too). Maybe less, but I'm expecting 20.

Well, Amazon thinks there will be 288 pages of MM I. Even if we assume a large 'overhead' of indexes and other info, I'd expect 250+ pages of monsters. Now, we know that the creatures won't split across pages, and will get at least 1 page each--but that creatures often get multiple stat blocks...

IIRC Healing Lorecall (2nd Level, Spell Compendium) can be used to remove Daze (but I'm too lazy to look it up). And it's worth noting: the new Illithid is almost certainly not a Solo monster--so all it's abilities need to be considered in the context of it being accompanied by several allies...

I doubt that's happening: back in the Monsters!^3 podcast, one of the example encounters for a 2nd or 3rd level party travelling with a caravan was a white dragon! Also, a 2nd level party in a different playtest fought and won against a copper, too. On the other hand, I suspect that Upper_Krust...

Actually, I suspect that their will be more Striker subtypes than any other role--so there's room for many different Warlock pacts, I think. And given that Elric as a character revolves pretty strongly around his pacts with Arioch et al, I'm thinking Warlock with Fighter...

I can see larger cities having the ability to cast 10 GMW spells to dole out 500 temporary +1 arrows--but that would be a pretty tricky operation logistically (you'd have to find the casters/scroll guys, marshall the archers, dole out the arrows, and position them where they can all get their...

The idea you could emulate a C64 on a cell phone amuses me :D I would like a re-worked Pool series--but I don't think I'd want to preserve the old-school 16 color stuff. It wouldn't need to be a full 3D-rendered 1080p surrond sound extravaganza to be fun though. The biggest problem I can see...

Well, of all Elven communities in Middle Earth only Elrond's Rivendell was notably friendly to visitor, etc. Other than that, I can't think of any really good examples. Let me tell you about my 12th level Half-Elven Politician :D And I agree, I'd like for all the Half-races to go away--I...

Well, the Spined Devil id: Medium Immortal Humanoid (Devil) If we assume that both Immortal and Humanoid is a kind of type, that could work: but we definitely still have a subtype of Devil, too. If you're right, perhaps the Fire Archon is Medium Immortal Elemental (Archon)? Of course, that's...

I'm in favor of the 20 == max crits; it has the nice side effect that it's not difficult to explain how you can crit everything: it just represents the 'perfect strike' with your weapon. Since you could already roll that high against any creature, there's nothing to explain about why you can...

Exarchs probably aren't 'Evil Angels'--in the Monsters podcast the encounter in Dispater's fortress Angels of Vengeance were considered for inclusion in the encounter. I'm thinking that Angel is the generalized term for certain kinds of servants of Gods--Good, Evil or indifferent. Granted, I...

THIS. Also, their forging ability makes perfect sense in this regard: Forging is the process of using Fire to turn metal in to Weapons. Fire Archons are Fire beings with an inherent passion for weaponry: it makes sense that they would have an instinct for making weapons--and basically nothing...

I don't think so; Spiney's Perception is a +5, not a 15. As for auto-search: to a great extent you can already do this in 3e, if you play a dwarf! And it does indeed make the game go much faster.

THIS the real truth: the original module made no sense, and the revamp didn't fix anything. Essentially, you've got a shed load of monsters who are each confining themselves into dingy little dungeon sections for no good reason. I mean, some of those creatures have no food source, reason to...

This looks a lot like how Saga Prestige classes worked, too. Several of them effectively formed three-part setups like that (Jedi/Jedi Knight/Jedi Master especially). And IIRC we've seen a playtest report with a 6th level Warlord who multi'd into Warlock. So, I don't think multiclassing is...

It could also be that the mountain is in the heart of a plateau of mountains (like the Himelayas)--from a nearby country, it would take a year to get to the plateau, navigate to the mountain, and scale the summit. Or the mountain could be partly in the 'real' world, and partly somewhere else...

Hmmm, I wonder if Ogre Magi will be a Solo-type monster?