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I personally hate the revolving door of death and resurrection in the game and if 4e takes steps to make it a little harder to die, removing the SoD effects while making it harder (much harder) to come back - I'll be a happy camper. As many others feel, SoD has the potential for being a...

I'd like to see some newcomers on the scene personally. I love WAR's and Lockwood's work but there is so much more out there if you're willing to go out and find it. From the previous thread (plus a few more), a few links to various artists, styles and pieces I found one day. And this is from...

Quite a few things I've been hoping to see in D&D seem to have been incorporated... 1. Simplifying skills. 2. Emphasizing the character over the magic items. 3. Bringing the overall power of the wizards down at the higher levels, but giving them more magic to perform at lower levels. 4...

So far 4e (mechanics-wise) is incorporating a lot of the things I've long harped on wishing they would do - simplifying skills, emphasizing the character over the items, bringing the overall power of the wizards down at the higher levels, but giving them more to do, designing epic rules...

You're kidding, right? Every year someone posts a "D&D is dying!" thread and every year someone from WotC has come here to refute it. Wasn't last year the best year (or 2nd best) *ever* for 3e?

I was just about to chime in with this very line of reasoning. :cool:

Yeah, it's early yet to really call it one way or the other. It would be great to see St. Kargoth (my favorite DK) statted out for 4e, I hope we see it. The cut & paste Deathknight cover bugs me though and I'm wondering what the elf image was originally supposed to be used for...

As someone who runs a Norse-flavored campaign, I was not especially pleased to hear this either. Worse, it seems that they're including *some* of the core giants (fire giants are mentioned) in the first book. I'd rather see all the core giants in the 1st MM... or none. Scattering them across two...

Just a couple clarifications... You'll note that there is no 1:2 BAB (at least with any of the base classes) in Saga. And with a 30 level game in D&D I'm all but certain we won't see the BAB disparities we see in 3e. In Saga, you either apply your character level bonus or armor bonus, not...

Ah, I finally found how poison works in Saga - it does indeed make it's own separate attack roll against the target's Fort Def., based on how potent it is.

In SW Saga, Fort Def. is listed as the ability to resist poison & disease, not endurance. However, I can't seem to find any examples of poison in the book to see how it works...

I was pondering a similar question this morning with touch-delivered spells that currently require a Fort Save. Does the attacker make a single roll, checked first against the target's Reflex Def. to see if it hits, then his Fort Def. to see if it takes effect or will the attacker make two...

I've quite happily used the Great Wheel in my previous Planescape & Greyhawk games but grew away from it when I started running my own homebrews. I really like that WotC is creating more "finite" sized dominions - like the Abyss, the 9 Hells, etc. rather than an infinite number of...

I also like the idea of a graduated breakdown over an all-or-nothing deal. A couple of years back I experimented with a HR that accomplished much of the same thing called Resolve Points. They were like "mental" hit points and charms spells and so on inflicted RP damage, eroding away your...

Certainly not all of them are gritty (as I mentioned above, some of the links are just to show what quality of work is out there), but nearly all are more realistic than the work we find in D&D.

Some of the links I included more for style & quality but in the end this likely all a moot excercise. I'm sure WotC has already comissioned out at least the majority of the artwork for the core books. And based on the early PHB images, it doens't look they are going to depart from 3e's style... :\

I picked that image up a couple of years ago so I'm not entire certain where it came from, but my guess would probably be the CG Society's site...

I would also like the direction to turn to a more gritty & realistic style. I went around and picked out some links from the CG boards of artists, pieces and styles I think would make for an interesting art direction for 4e... http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=137&t=531231...

My games tend to be pretty grounded so I do tend to view fantasy images I want to use in my games with an eye towards "practicality". I tend to draw inspiration from outside what WotC produces and I tell you if they're not in head-to-toe full plate armor, it can be tough to find "practically"...

Without question, Planescape is the setting I'd like to see make a return more than any of the others. I've always had a soft spot for Dark Sun, but I've always felt it was more of a "one trick pony" setting and generally used it as a place for the PCs to visit, not to stay. Same can be said...