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Well, the nice thing is, unlike the cleric, worship isn't required. It's perfectly reasonable for the relationshp between a patron and his warlock to be a business-like, quid pro quo affair. Something like the relationship between Dr. Strange and the Vishanti, or Hoary Hosts of Hoggoth. It's...

I'll ban things. I'll probably ban the monk, because a guy who can kill things with his bare hands what other people need swords and bows to kill is a higher level version of the guy with the sword or the bow, not a different thing altogether. I often ban clerics, because their existence...

Considering that the unarmed strike is considered a simple weapon, and thus fighter abilities all work with it (as they should), it seems to me that the fighter is already a brawler, as he should be. He doesn't have the magical strikes like a monk, but he's definitely able to kill things with...

We can't get this guy anymore. He's writing Fables. I did love his art though.

I'm not sold on the design. Nothing screams "D&D!" to me. I think that's probably because the name of the game is so de-emphasized. I would have preferred a more character-centric illustration for the PHB; nothing like the 4e "Action Pose" but perhaps a band of adventurers, stealthily making...

I thought that was the cleric? Man, Redgar gets no respect.

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Actually there's a lot of bad art in the WOTC books...it's just covered up by color; often badly done digital color. What 3rd had, to a great extent, was a consistent feel. 4th Edition, at least while I was keeping up with the line, was just an embarrassment. A lot of it was technically...

Looking back, I'd say the BECMI line probably had the most superior art quality of any edition of D&D. It had a consistent feel, being cover illustrations by Elmore (including one of his best paintings ever-the cover to the Mentzer Basic set) and interior black and white illo's by Elmore and...

I don't know what the "best for the brand" would be for me, but I know what I want. I want something that looks like the fantasy I read. I want mighty thewed barbarians. I want a humanocentric party, rather than the one in five or so humans you generally get. I want something that looks like...

"People" don't. "You" do. If I ask where the chain mail bikinis are, I'm asking where the chain mail bikinis are. Now, I agree it might be appropriate to stretch the point and include any armor or clothing that covers roughly the same amount of territory as a bikini...or even a swimsuit. In...

Keep in mind, I tend to run old school style games, so levels last longer, and the world is generally lower level, but in my games, PC's will start seeing magic weapons at first level, and by 3rd or 4th level, everyone will have one, or a piece of magic armor, or a majic wand or something...

I haven't cared much for any of the human/demihuman/adventurer style illustrations, but I love these monster illustrations. Update: If this is going to be the general gist of the art in the upcoming books, I'm going to have to look elsewhere for character art...This is just...meh...

That's not too bad. It's pretty much how the Known World was in BECMI, until it went headlong into Gazetteers and got renamed "Mystara" (man, I hate that name).

A handful of points... (speaking specifically of the second piece of art posted). a) that is clearly not a leather gorget. It's a steel one. And it's huge. The wearer would not be able to raise his arms above his head to fight, and if the neck holee was so wide as to allow him to do so...

I really don't want them to put too much investment into any of their existing campaign properties. A setting book? sure. A line of modules (i hate the term 'adventure path'), why not? But beyond that, I want to get away from the idea there's a "core" setting. The core setting of Dungeons &...

I haven't seen anything (other than the art)* that would turn me off of the game, so I'm in. In a lot of ways, from what I've seen it's closer to what I want from D&D than any version that's come before, except possibly the game that's implied but not actually explained in the old Basic/Expert...

(Looks at second pic) so I guess that "realistic armor" thing is right out?

No...I'm saying that another class with the same attack bonus is also a highly trained at jazzy fighting techniques. For instance a 10th level rogue is, through experience, a much better fighter than a 3rd level fighter, and ought to have a similar chance to pull of cool stunts. Every class...