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I like that all the various names given so far are, essentially, "placeholders" that are meant to be replaced or used according to the individual DM's whim. Putting a map, or even a few different maps, into the core books will open the door to some players and DMs feeling bound by "canon"...

Or anti-magic areas that defy any kind of magical scrying or mapping? Or areas that actually shift and change topography from time to time? Or spellcasters that actively work to thwart mapping attempts to preserve border security? Or a world in which reality is subjective, and is essentially...

That sounds like a good idea. I'd buy such a book. Paragon Paths and Epic Paths would also make for good book subjects, perhaps in the same book you propose...but let's hope for quality rather than quantity, rather than what we saw with Prestige Classes.

As one of the iconics, I've never seen Krusk as representing the very pinnacle of power for his class. The iconics in general are meant to represent the typical PC at whatever level is appropriate for the campaign. Gandalf was being used in the article as a benchmark, an indication of the upper...

That article actually predates AD&D, and was published in a 1977 Dragon (or rather, The Dragon) article. The thing is, it was essentially showing that many of the things that Gandalf, ostensibly the very paradigm of what a wizard was to D&D's audience circa the mid to late 70s, could do were...

I've always liked the NPC classes, right from the beginning. The way they're tweaked in Iron Heroes may soothe some of the qualms people have about them. Anyway, I like them in general because they allow me to have a quick, handy way to stat up an NPC without simply handwaving. They allow for...

True, but the CDs that are bound in the books contain the book they are bound in.

Yeah, Baen books has really done some amazing stuff with those CDs. Plus, the content of those CDs can be freely distributed, or at least the ones I have contain such a notice. The only thing you can't do is sell them. The number - and quality - of the books they've made available is hard to beat.

As I said elsewhere, if you want to interact with the gaming public, you really need to spend more time answering the questions of the many, many posters - I assume the great majority of them, but that's just my own perception of it - who are polite and friendly and stop tussling with the more...

Hi Gary - I've been remiss in checking in on this thread lately, so I may have missed it if you told how you liked Gene Wolfe's "The Knight." Did you like it enough to read "The Wizard"? If so, did you enjoy the story as a whole?

I could see this being the title of a module from any previous edition, or even from Judges Guild. I don't think any of the 4e names we've seen so far have been all that bad.

I liked the 3e revamp of the manticore a lot. It made what I'd always considered a slightly silly and fairly boring monster more interesting. It reminds me of how seals could be mistaken for mermaids. Seals look nothing like people, but I can say from personal experience that you can mistake...

I like 'em just fine as antagonists. As PCs...not so much.

I would really enjoy seeing the Goliath become a core race. I don't have much hope for it, but it's what I'd like.

One of the things I loved about the original S4 were all the wilderness encounters. Some of them were essentially small adventures in themselves (the bandit camp) or led to other major adventures (the gnome settlement that could be the hook to run WG4). While there are some here in this update...

I always liked the idea of good vs. evil when it came to dragons in particular. I always assumed dragons were immortal, spawned upon the creation of the universe, and embodying the primal conflict between evil and good which was part and parcel of my vision of a D&D universe. I also like the...

That's a relief. It can be hard to gauge what is or isn't acceptable at EN World after spending time at CM. One gets used to the more...freewheeling...climate over there...

You're welcome. Really. I wanna like the new edition. I like a lot of what I've read so far. There are certainly some things I'd like to know more about, but I'm a patient person. However, I'd also like to be able to influence, even in a small way, how the new edition goes forward, or at least...

I don't know if my post was part of the problem, but it wasn't intended as anything but an indication that there are plenty of us out here who aren't crapping on WotC and the way they're handling the 4e lead-up. It just would be nice to see more of what we post be acknowledged or commented upon...

What kills me is that you seem to be paying way too much attention to those doing the crapping. Why not give some indication that those of us who are optimistic and positive (for the most part) about the impending new edition are being heard as well? I'd try to post a list of thoughtful...