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The change to halfling size is exactly what I had hoped to see, for exactly the reasons the developers have stated. The Small PC races in my homebrewed campaign follow the size models of 4e halflings. Haven

RigaMortus2- It's true that there are rules for repairing gear. Once you get into restoring the magical qualities of repaired gear, though, you're talking about having the PCs leave the dungeon and return to town for a few days. It's actually even worse than the wizard running out of spells...

Mortellan- The reasons behind a dissimilar design philosophy between PCs and NPCs might make more sense if stated in terms of what the designer, GM, and players actually want to see happen in the game. That is to say, everyone wants to see the PCs win a percentage of the time that their...

I've never had a PC pursue Sundering as a tactic, but I've had plotlines derailed by NPCs Sundering gear. That is to say, the PC victim could no longer participate in the adventure until his weapon was replaced. PCs who Sunder weapons are destroying some portion of their impending reward -...

With the nebulous hints that have been dropped about 4e's multiclassing functions, I expect that a cleric who wants cool shield powers will find it easy to pick up powers from the fighter or paladin classes. I too would be significantly disappointed if it were not possible to improve a cleric's...

In what possible sense is this fluff "mandated"? Did you feel that your campaign had to have a Bigby, Mordenkainen, or Corellon Larethian just because they were named in the rulebook? If you didn't want to hear frequent references to Melf and the rest, you had to change the spell's names in some...

While I'm really very happy with the whole thing (and am pro-4e with few reservations), my favorite part by far was the mention of tracking down more rituals. I'm with Simia Saturnalia - if I don't have to research and negotiate for and track down something related to spellcasting, then I'm not...

The main reason to put Climb, Jump, and Swim together as Athletics and Balance, Tumble, and Escape Artist together as Acrobatics is that it's then quite obvious to that Athletics is modified by Strength and Acrobatics is modified by Dexterity. Though they will have been grouped and renamed, at...

You wouldn't actually need to make a whole lot of monsters immune to fear if you didn't set up fear as an effect that forced the enemy to flee. Fear-as-debuff has a lot more design space, I think, and it gets around the save-or-out-of-the-fight problem that fear effects posed in 3.x. I think...

/threadjack for history Mighty_Veil, the Saxons spent plenty of time losing to the Danes. So much so that King Alfred the Great's domain was once reduced to a few square miles of swamp. There were, to be fair, quite a lot of Saxon victories thereafter. /unthreadjack for history

I'm actually in the same boat (and occasionally the same role-playing group) as Knight-of-Roses. I haven't seen this spell abused, or even used-normally. The arcane casters I've played with are generally discouraged by the spell's limitations. (Though let me tell you, next time I play a wizard...

Oh, for the good old days, when all we argued about around here was brenching. Haven Deleting/brenching edition war grognard

I think the rationale behind critical hits will also see considerable reworking now that Fireball (and presumably other damaging spells) can strike critically. I have rather a hard time with "This area attack struck one of your vital organs," because "the face" as a vital organ breaks down in...

Probably the same way a warlord's encouragement and direction heal you. You're inspired and bolstered by the strike. You feel renewed and ready to keep fighting, even against long odds. This takes the form of restoring hit points. Haven

Specifically, the D&D designers haven't gone quite that far down the road of materials and conditions that block teleportation because it's not cool to take away abilities that PCs have earned over the course of many levels. A player who rolls up a wizard is, more likely than not, already aware...

It's certainly the case that I don't lose much sleep over following the four-encounters-a-day structure. Though distinctly slower to run, players are more likely to remember set-piece encounters with a larger number of bad guys. Fighters get to take advantage of Cleave and Great Cleave more...

I see no reason to believe that the 4e class model will make fighters or paladins the "end-all, be-all" of killing stuff. That's not the primary job of the defender role. Defenders dish out respectable but probably not dominating damage. Since these class roles seem to be founded on the same...

Speaking as both a frequent GM and a slightly-less-frequent player of spellcasters, I feel like JoT's overstating the problem. In my experience, there are multiple valid approaches to most problems, and I can use my spells alone or in combination to solve those problems. If I focus on the...

All previous references to warlords-as-leaders that I'd seen had avoided saying outright that warlords could heal - I had thought there might be something else they were doing, perhaps granting temporary hit points or something like that. This pretty much puts that question to rest for me. It...

Captain, maybe? Its leadership connotations are, if anything, even more blatant, but they apply freely to an army, a navy, or a sports team. Also... it worked for Lord of the Rings Online, and at least that's different from (being facetious here!) stealing everything from WoW. ;) And I'm...