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I hope WOTC dont bring out a unified "5E" Better to make 2 games: - a 4.5E type game for the 4E fans - a revamped modular d20 system for everyone else.

I dont know and dont care about the importance of adventures to 4E. But I am sure that, were you to launch a new system or setting, a good early set of adventures would be vital. I want to see the mechanics or cool setting details in action. BTW, isnt the utterly useless sample adventure...

The advantage of parsimony is: its easier to add stuff than take it away.

I dont understand what this idea is supposed to achieve. It seems to have all the problems of a conventional railroad, but is far more complicated and fragile.

The PCs are in the City Watch. Absent players PCs are on another, boring, mission. New players - and characters are new recruits. Goodly characters are volunteers or on secondment from their organisation. Not-so-goodly are serving instead of beign punished, or are spies for other groups.

"101 Encounters" for Harn Adventures : Lýthia.com

You need a plausible , vanilla, mainstream futuristic "religion"? Atheism

A new group may have all sorts of weird house rules and habits and unspoken assumptions. Id rather work these out with a semi-disposable low level character than get chucked in the deep end of mid to high level play.

Im suprised that "Vancian magic" is not more common in fantasy literature. Its an elegant way of showing you the reader the approximate parameters of the wizards power, so you have that nice balance of anticipation and suspense. Its like the Q-gives-Bond-the gadgets scene.

My thoughts (note, I have no knowledge of the adventure) youre playing an adventure path: be upfront about it, tell the players, OOC, "The next chapter is in the north, please swallow the plot hook" or whatever I wonder if the players were confused by the refugee issue. To me it seems really...

My concern - will the game support "open-sandboxy-old-style-campaign-play". Races as classes?: depends on the multiclassing rules.

Any ruleset can only cover a small part of roleplaying gaming possibility. So, if you only know one game, and try to force all your roleplaying ideas into that rule system, then yes, it will stifle your creativity.

A graveyard with lots of big blank tombstones. On which you record the fates of dead PCs (and perhaps favoured henchmen and allies as well)

D&D is about adventurers having adventures. Not tourism. So, setting material - no matter how nice - isnt worth a **** unless it leads to adventure, or adds a new component to the usual adventure plot tropes. Id go further and say that most setting products are made the wrong way round...

To the OP: a few ideas on the reconciliation i) say that only a small %age of people have the capacity for using magic. But PCs are exceptional. ii) behind the scenes, theres a delicate balance of power between the powerful casters, both arcane and divine. So, the reason Grandulf the 20th...

The hate for "Tomb of Horrors" as a "worst" module is just grognard-baiting or ignorance. Theres other "adversarial" adventures done worse - and then theres the complete wastes of paper (eg: Gargoyle) that anybody, of any gaming style, would fnd useless.

I want the setting material to include adventures and adventure seeds which use the settings unique features.

D&D is better than Monopoly because Monopoly isnt a very good game, and usually means disappointment and bickering.

No offensive ist level spell ?? - Whatever happened to Sleep V?

some thoughts - generally, let the players know that its The Final Battle so they can choose heroic sacrifice - the ideal adventure is written so that failiure is fun - in the OPs example, it seems the problem is not so much that they failed, but the rubbish manner of their failiure. They...