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I'd like to see two different approaches: 1) For subraces that are more like unique races in their own rights, like Drow and Svirfneblin, they should become their own distinct race, and get rid of the idea of "subraces." Wizards seems to be taking this approach by using Elves for the...

I wasn't expecting anything like this either, but the flavor is nice. I'm really curious how it'll affect game mechanics. I'm curious what sort of tools are used for mind control and charm spells. Illusions probably are Orb effects, because of the "perception effects", but there's no mention...

I don't want random hit points. They serve no useful purpose. For ability scores, I want there to be both random and point-buy options, all listed in the PHB with a note that the DM decides which to use.

Force Haze has a prerequisite of Clear Mind, which the writeup doesn't have. I'd recommend taking the Jedi Talents Block, Deflect, Redirect, and Weapon Specalization (Lightsaber), and the Jedi Knight Talent Juyo. If being a bodyguard is an important aspect of the character, then taking a level...

I prefer Castle Falkenstein's way of dealing with this: There are no female dwarves. Just like there are no male dryads. In fact, dwarves and dryads are the same race, and the only way to make new dwarves and dryads is for a dwarf and a dryad to marry and have kids. The female children...

There's also a really good archetypal precedent for it: Beowulf always fought without weapons. However, he didn't do so because he was better at it than fighting with weapons, he did so because it was worse. He boasted that he was going to kill Grendel with his bare hands to show off his...

Love the crunch, but the fluff sounds pretty good too. Ultimately the fluff isn't as important to me though, since I play in other settings and homebrews.

That sounds good to me. Favored classes and the XP penalty for multiclassing is probably the single most ignored rule in 3rd edition, so I would be very very surprised if it stays. It's also a rule that accomplishes absolutely nothing for game balance, while punishes certain arbitrarily...

A recent article by James Wyatt said that a swordsage is not a concept that is easily doable in the core 4e rules. There have also been some strong hints that the monk will not be in the 4e PHB either. What I'm hoping is that the monk will kill the swordsage and take his stuff. IMO the...

I have a lot of faith in the Wizards editors and layout people. Star Wars Saga is physically tiny compared to the previous edition, and yet contains almost everything that it did. It was just written more clearly and sussinctly, without padding.

If you visit the Wizards website for the Star Wars RPG, it has a series of preview articles for the game, which detail the various new mechanics and design approaches, and the rationales behind them.

I sure hope so. And no one can keep up with me!

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That's what I'm hoping for too. We can still have magic armor and magic weapons, but instead of boring (and imbalcing) numerical bonuses, the items give interesting new abilities instead. You can have gauntlets of ogre power without stat buffs. It could be something like "double your carrying...

I really like the static saving throw "defenses" from Saga, and think that in Star Wars making "AC" an aspect of reflex defense makes a lot of sense. I think AC and reflex defense should be different in D&D though. In star wars, reflex saves aren't used much, only explosives and autofire...

I'm going to throw in a "me too" for this. I seriously dislike warlord. I voted for commander, since it's descriptive but doesn't have too much baggage. Captain would also be good, but may have too many nautical & military connotations. Marshall is also decent, but has a grandiose meaning in...

It's also possible that some "at will" powers have effectively endless durations, but a wizard has a limited number he can have in use at any given time. A wizard might have 2 "continuous" at will spells, so he might choose to always have a mage armor and phantom steed, or he might choose to...

I also don't like the name 'warlord.' The concept I love, but that name is too narrow, and precludes a lot of character concepts, like dashing non-magical bards or straightforward characters without pretensions of creating their own armies and taking over territory. I like "marshal", but the...

Yes. And that probably saves a lot of bandwidth. If they just opened up in the browser window, people would have no incentive to download and save them, and refer to their downloaded file later. They could just click on the link and view it in their browser every time they want to look at it.

The character options that won't show up in 4e for a while, like psions, beguilers, and binders. Other than that, not a thing. Judging from the previews, they've kept what I want them to keep, and ditched what I want them to ditch.