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Based on the playtesting notes that mentioned psion as essentially a wizard, I'm thinking maybe it points not to a separate class but to the removal of spell components, which would allow players to decide how their PCs cast their spells (i.e., incantations, mental ability, etc.). At the end of...

I would also like the idea, although for different reasons. I like the idea of the Player's Handbook being the only game I absolutely need to bring to the table.

Yay! Another 4e speculation thread! Based on what I've read of early reports, it seems the release order for the new core books will be the Player's Handbook in May, the Monster Manual in June, and the Dungeon Master's Guide in July. Does anyone else find the fact that the DMG and not the...

Also: 1977(?): Holmes boxed set 1981: Moldvay/Cook Basic/Expert Sets 1983: Mentzer BECMI sets 1991: Black Box/Rules Cyclopedia Just to provide a timeline for TSR's red-headed stepchild.

If that's the plan, I can only assume most of the settings will get little support beyond a world book and maybe a couple of products. Unless, of course, WotC wants to divide their market the same way TSR once did.

I was wondering when people would start saying "I called it!" New editions of the game are inevitable, especially eight years after the last one. Calling it ahead of time is like saying a hurricane will hit the coast sometime during hurricane season. EDIT: In an attempt to be less...

I'll check out the previews they'll be posting. If it turns out to be interesting, I'll pick up the Player's Handbook. If that too intrigues me, I'll buy the rest of the core books and switch my campaign setting over. If it doesn't interest me...well, I don't think my 3e books will burst into...

Nope. I buy precious few RPG books anyway, and I never purchase them sight unseen.

I'm wondering if they're using the Expedition book to gauge whether Greyhawk should be the core setting for 4e.

Yes and yes. My reasons are entirely selfish. I'd always like another shot at getting my work published.

I didn't like the fact that so many major pieces of the setting were drastically changed through actions the players could not be a part of. The Prism Pentad novels came out very shortly after the campaign setting was released, IIRC. During the course of those books, the dragon and multiple...

I just noticed while looking through the illusion spells that the old trick of using phantasmal force (now the various image spells) to mimic a fireball or other damage-dealing spell no longer works under the current rules. Since image spells are figments, the subject is clued in as to the lack...

I've only ever run one-shots in Dark Sun. However, I might end up making Athas an apocalyptic version of my homebrew sometime. A major villain in my campaign is soon going to kick up his quest to become a god-like creature. If the PCs fail to stop him, I'll probably fast forward a few centuries...

I would say the threat of death needs to be real, but then I haven't killed a PC in years and my games are running just fine.

Back when the contest that led to Eberron was being held, WotC gave the chance for the finalists to put together a 125-page campaign setting bible. Out of curiosity, does anyone know if WotC ever showed what the required format of said bible was? I'd be interested in seeing what they thought was...

20 years old: 2nd level 30 years old: 3rd level 40 years old: 4th level 50 years old: 5th level 60 years old: 6th level 70 years old: 6th level

One way I once tried to advance NPCs was to assign them a set amount of XP (usually 100 x their level) per session they weren't in, or double that XP for sessions they were in. That allowed slow advancement, but advancement nonetheless. The big problem with this system was that it became too...

I don't really miss much from AD&D, although every now and again I get the urge to run a light-hearted session using all the fiddly bits from AD&D, including Bend Bars/Lift Gates checks and other stuff that never really came up in my sessions. I do miss some aspects from classic D&D, though...

Rape is much more traumatizing than being mugged, hit, or afflicted with a disease. That said, I wouldn't run a scenario where someone got a disease and died if the player's mother was suffering through cancer, for instance. Part of a fantasy role-playing game is escapism, and I think it's...

I don't know...one of the most memorable villains in my early D&D games was Zanzer Tem from the black box set. He managed to escape the original dungeon and hounded the PCs for years afterwards...I don't think I ever had him higher than level 10 or so, and he started out as a 4th-level...