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Yellow trenchcoat? Check. Arquebus? Check. Bandolier? Check. Ya get that thing I sent ya? Check. Gotta be the Giff. Hippos in space ... how can you go wrong?

The aurumvorax. Nothin says loving like 500 lb, eight-legged, pissed off weasel. That, and it was my first character's animal companion. Good memories.

After service pack 1 errata is released, and after the first round of splatbooks covering all PHB1 core classes is released.

Bradford has a negative opinion of adapting gameplay mechanics from MMORPGs. I don't. His use of "ape" throughout the whole rant pretty much shows his bias. Good game design is good game design. If anything made Rogues less thieves and confidence men, it was 3E, not 4E. Skills are available to...

I'd definitely prefer an open-ish system. I like the adventure and monster books from third parties. But as far as rules go, our group tends to remain with core products only. Edit: So I voted "Purchase even if closed"

I hear Stephen Colbert is shopping the rights to EN World so he'll have a better chance of getting his 4E books early.

Stephen Colbert is America's Paladin, Defender of the Truth, Champion of the One True (Republican) Way. Didn't you get the memo? :)

Minions might be a good way of reflecting a Hydra-like creature. The extra heads are all 'minions'. Until you destroy all of the heads (each a single hit), you can't really do any damage the hydra since a single minion absorbs all damage dealt to it (there is no 'extra' damage). The creature...

... elegant brilliance. :lol:

Taking a shot: Fey Pact: When you reduce an enemy under your Warlock's Curse to 0 hit points or fewer, you can teleport 3 squares as a free action. Warlock Curse: Once per turn as a ??? action, place a curse on the enemy nearest you, you do +1d6 damage on the enemy. The curse lasts until the...

Even better. So characters are going to have a reserve HP pool of 2 - 4 times their total HP, on top of any non-surge healing Leaders can provide. Man, that's a lot, and a lot in a good way.

It looks like the healing surge value is 1/2 the Fortitude Defense (round up?). Warlocks look to have 6 + Con surges per day, and Fighters have 9 + Con surges per day.

Started playing with 2E in 1992. Happily moved to 3E in 2001. Will likely move to 4E sometime in 2009.

Not so much a game as a game style. I thought I'd like to play PbPs. Being able to play every day and the opportunity to explore a character more in depth than generally happens at my tables sounded like goodrightfun. And it was ... for the first two weeks. But I found my interest waned after...

I would second the wiki idea for convenience. Also, I would recommend checking out the Player's Guide for the War of the Burning Sky (it's free). It is a good template for presenting a world from a PCs perspective w/o giving away the farm. A full chapter of the guide is dedicated to the main...

Voted No. I've mostly relinquished the DM seat and have enjoyed my time as a player. Except for a one-shot Alternity game, I haven't sat in the DM chair for 2-3 years. Which, on a side note, is why I will be wildly disappointed if 4E doesn't live up to the hype. The 4E news has set off my DM...

Kill it, for reasons similar to TwinBahamut. The system needs to change in such a way that UMD simply isn't needed.

If the maneuver wasn't presented in an official monster manual, and instead your DM came up with a similar maneuver for Bugbears, Giants, Humans, what-have-you, would you still cry foul? Is it in bad form for DMs to change their monsters to create [what they might view as] a unique challenge?

Modern expectations of fair treatment of prisoners only goes back about 200-300 years. Prior to that, death or slavery was the norm. The Greeks allowed other Greek prisoners to live to avoid the collective weakening of the Greek city-states. But Greeks had no qualms about killing foreign...