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Core rules with about a page and a half of house rules (much of which is simply writing out several of the core rules, such as favored classes and threat ranges). And I've got a handful of home-brewed prestige classes and new spells that have come up in my setting. Besides that, three rulebooks...

I checked the "Don't use it, won't use it" option, which is only about 75% true. I don't have an interest in Eberron as a setting, but have borrowed elements from it for my own campaign world. I've also run published Eberron adventures in my setting to good effect. I will probably continue to do...

I don't think we need to see the actual finished product before forming an opinion. I got into D&D based on nothing more than looking over my mom's old character sheets; without even knowing the rules or seeing any real art, I wanted to play the game. In the case of the 4th edition previews, if...

"X is unfun/unfair" Especially when applied to something I've used extensively in my games and had a lot of fun with.

I consider an interesting and realistic female character to be the same as an interesting and realistic male character: a character I can look at and see a unique and interesting personality. All of Greenwood's female characters seem very much alike to me, in that they're usually either...

No change. I'll be playing as though I won't be converting to 4th edition. Otherwise I waste all my time trying to guess about changes that may or may not be in the final edition.

Am I really the first to post this? http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/drdd/20070921

While I'm against the idea of a rebooting, there are several things I would change if I were to run a Realms game these days. One of the big ones would be the involvement of the gods. I think the Time of Troubles was a cool idea, but it opened the door to a lot of meddling by the deities. I...

With very little info so far, I've shifted from excited to neutral. The designers have focused more on talking about how they're going to change things I love about the game than how they're going to actually improve the mechanics. Until there is some actual crunch to the previews, I can't make...

They can do whatever they want to the elemental planes, as I have never, ever used them and don't even include them in my setting's cosmology.

It is fun to combine settings, but it gets unwieldly when you combine multiple published settings. I've found that the better approach is to take inspiration for a certain setting rather than dropping it wholesale into an established campaign world. Adding everything and anything can create a...

I used to do something like that when I first got into D&D. I started with Thunder Rift, and then started adding stuff as I picked up more campaign settings. Cerilia lay to the north, Athas to the far south, Al Qadim and the Realms got shoved in there somehow, Kara-Tur got tossed in, and then...

The system did change drastically, although one can see pretty clear connections to later 2nd edition stuff and what was done with 3rd edition. One thing about 3rd edition, though, is that my style of game didn't change drastically. Just about anything that could be done in 2nd edition could be...

Technically, there is a default setting. Greyhawk is the default setting of 3rd edition, while 4th edition looks like it will have at least the beginnings of a default setting of its own. I think, though, that a lot of D&D's success is tied to the fact that it's not intrinsically linked to one...

I started with the box set as a base, and evolved from there. During the course of the few campaigns I ran in the Realms, the area around Myth Drannor was totally destroyed and replaced with a dead magic zone. A new goddess ascended, and then left the heavens to become mortal again. Vangerdahast...

That's pretty reductive of both sides. Side 1 is not saying the Realms necessarily suck, but that they would be more interested if the high-level NPCs and a few other things got changed. Side 2 is not advocating no change at all, but is instead arguing that killing off almost all major...

As a minor niggle, said wizard can cast detect magic more times per day. It just costs a higher-level spell slot after that. That said, cantrips will probably be workable at will from here on out.

I'd say, "Wow...they made this game closer to what it was when I started to play."

Material components I don't care about. Spellbooks are something I want to keep, however. Having played a lot of wizards, some of my best adventure experiences have come from losing a spellbook and having to either recover it or to face a quest knowing that I was only going to have the spells...

While I'm not going to go into a list of things I think are fun and unfun, I think this topic is interesting, and I hope the 4th edition designers take a good long look at what they consider unfun before just yanking it out of the game. The big problem areas will hopefully be smoothed over, but...