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I play LFR. It's a carnival of unthemed races and classes jammed together session after session. I don't see why your party would be so against playing with a vampire in your group in LFR... I have to run around with gnolls, orcs, and minotaurs frequently. What's the difference? And revenants...

There are some pretty amazing bits of art in 4e - I like it a lot better than some of the ridiculously themed 3rd Edition art - especially in the PHB. Some of the class renderings looked like they were from a 1990's poser bar in the West Village. Hennet the sorcerer I'm looking at you. It's...

I'm glad they're exploring different 'out of combat' options for these classes. It adds a a lot of flavor and is very useful in many campaigns - and this particular utility has a nice little combat kicker to boot. I liked the hexblade summons and the wilderness knacks as well. Good on them for...

I'd say Erickson's Malazan series is Epic tier by the final books - I don't know how stylistically similar to a typical 4e Epic tier campaign it would be, but those characters dally with gods and end up godlike themselves in a worlds-shaping event.

I think you were completely fine. They have knowledge checks, don't they? Did your players use them or did they charge heedlessly into the fray?

There is a the possibility that they believe the crunch of the game is increasingly dependent upon using their online tools and that their in-house numbers show that most people who play are turning to the character and monster builder for all of the material they're releasing in the books. If...

For a hexblade, the powers of the implement transfer to their summoned weapon, so a magical implement would be a good thing to give. Being melee strikers, iron armbands of power are a great arm slot item for a hexblade to have. They are somewhat under-armored for a melee class, so magical...

I don't. The Windows-based program allowed me to create a character. At the moment, the web based version doesn't. I spent a couple hours trying to create a character last evening and it would crash every time I tried to pick a skill, then would crash when I tried to recover the character on the...

I'd let the player do it... using the companion rules to make something semi-viable seems like a good idea. And also a potentially cool storyline to follow - the familiar should have dissolved into the ether with the caster's death... why hasn't it?

I'm sure it's not cost effective, but is it too much to ask to get a few minis of each of the new character races that Wizards puts out in their PHBs? Shardminds, Wildens? Devas? Goliaths? I feel like they should be covered by a few minis either before or soon after they are made available as...

I really like the new format on the front page, and I had one tiny request if anyone agrees with me. :o Would it be possible/a good idea to put a "Last Updated" somewhere on the Front Page News block? That way you know whether to check it out for new news or not when you jump on the website...

Loved priest spheres, a few of the cleaned up rules like initiative, and 'point buy' for thief skills. One of my favorite splat books of all time is Faiths and Pantheons, and the Wizard's, Priest's, and Magic Item compendiums are 'must haves' imho. All for 2e. I liked the 2e Bard more than the...

I use the 'jen-NAH-see' pronunciation, although I personally like 'jen-SAI'. I try not to use the 'jen-uh-SEE' pronunciation 'cause it sounds too much like the cream ale/beer Genesee. We already have enough things to get the table going off on a tangent -- beer races will put us over the edge.

It's a little more swingy in my opinion than 3.x, but what I really noticed about 4e is that the party is brutalized if they don't cooperate and fight tactically. We've had a few combats where we've rolled very poorly but squeaked by because of good tactical fighting. We also TPK'd in one of our...

I like it. Aside from the Efreeti, I've been much more impressed with the 4e art over the 3.5 art.

I think tactician is a poor name for this class... tacticians don't rally allies on the battlefield. The name is not evocative for what it seems WOTC is looking for, imho. I went with marshal on the last, similarly themed post, and I stick with my opinion. But frankly, I don't mind Warlord that...

Great stuff Whizbang! You should write the gnome entry for the MM -- that's the best take on the gnome race I think I've ever read.

While I don't have any complaints against expanding beyond the Tolkien standard... the warforged is definitely not the direction I'm interested in seeing such an expansion going. I think the PHB should be about a standard mix of races and classes, with future supplements getting into more niche...

My LG group is a big fan of taking Unseen Seer for a level to put knock advanced learning to fourth level spells... then take Shadow Conjuration. Unseen Seer is very easy to qualify for and gives you full spellcasting progression.

That would be a fun build... I'm not a fan of the Three Thunders dazing problem, and I catch a lot of grief to take a spontaneous caster prestige class that will make me lose 1 caster level of spells. Definitely has flavor though. Thanks :) I've been looking at the Arcane Disciple route...