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Despite my rampant enthusiasm for 4e, that would turn my 4e-forum-reading time into homebrewing-my-ultimate-3.5-hack time. I've just recently bought another dozen 7-die polyhedral sets, am waiting on the shipping costs for my Q Workshop CoC dice, and I'm bidding on several of Q Workshop's Elvish...

Well, it sounds a lot like what I've been trying to do with the Bard flavor for a while now. The charismatic rebel at the front of the charge, the iron-jawed commander barking orders, the howling barbarian warsinger...the character whose voice and presence turn the tide. I think that this fear...

Personally, given the tidbit from Brazil and the fact the reaction to the PHB cover release has been profoundly and almost unanimously negative, I assume we'll be seeing a new cover in the works.

Scroll.....so busted. Spoiler your pics!

I'm certainly wallet-voting virtual minis. Hell, I've been wallet-voting all their minis for years. I want the top-of-the-scale dragons as display pieces, but other than that minis are for painting.

Well, some mechanical design for the FR cores. Based on what the story team asks for. Yeah, doesn't sound that big of a deal to me. YMM, clearly, V.

It was certainly very close. Speaking as a man who ended playing 2e with a 1/2 elf cleric 12/m-u 12, and having to take 23 hours, 10 minutes to memorize and pray for my full allotment of spells - yes, I could easily spend half as much time adventuring as I could getting ready to adventure - the...

I'm not certain how I feel about this. On the one hand a really good Oriental PHB, DMG, and MM is attractive, but on the other I'd rather get about a half-dozen smaller campaign setting books covering the entire selection of sources; wuxia film & legend, the now-mythologized samurai, Indian...

Given what this policy gave us the first time around, I'll certainly be waiting for the chance to compare any 3rd party rush releases against the Wizards version - I'll wait a year to have frost giants that aren't re-painted fire giants. Considering everybody's all up in arms about 'how little...

This why my personal speculation is that the PHB/DMG/MM II will be psionics (kalashtar, psion classes, lots of aberrations in the MM), artifice (alchemy, warforged, gnomes, artificers, possibly a firearm/blast wand-based striker?, construct-heavy MM), and 'fey' (not sure what they'd call it...

shocklee: I'm not able (in opportunity) to locate the quote at the moment, but I'm certain something has been said about allowing DMs to enter custom rules on their DI games. If someone digs that up, great, otherwise I'll try to find it later.

Hell, I'll be a free plant if they offer me preview tidbits two days early, or a return copy of the preview books (I expect over-stocking and returns on those). :D

It's really a shame they called them preview books, because now no-one seems to know what they are. They seem like 4e-specific sequels to 30 years of adventure as described, and I'd get them if I can pick up both for about the cost of a new WotC hardcover. If they actually try to price them like...

It may even be simpler. 'Combat advantage' may be the new "flat-footed/flanked/held/gonna get a shortsword in the kidney", much as 'bloodied' is the new "below half HP".

I elect to bother, because you appear to be complaining about a 3e issue. We have absolutely no idea how AC is calculated. We have some rough ideas from old editions, but they're changing the meanings of things like "core" and "chaotic", so...who knows? I think it's premature to get angry at...

If I may? What they said was they're leaving some monsters out of the first Monster Manual to expand the definition of core. This has been popularized as "to get people to buy the rest". Just so nobody's misquoting them here. Personally, I'm okay with them meaning "convince people to buy and...

It strikes me that a highly political, deific meddling heavy campaign centering on a single high-magic city is in and of itself so far divorced from the core offering of 3.x that this seems like a justification.

Things remain in flux. It's barely two months since the information first hit our fragile little ears, and the release is months away. I'm not only buying it, you do your professional self a grave disservice by this constant belittling of Wizards and their employees.

Less than a dozen 3.x books, mostly mineable resources at that (Slayer's Guides, Classic Play, etc.). Internally excited about 4e to a level that would make Wormwood look pretty blasé about it. Edit: It may be worth noting that 3.x was being published primarily during years of lean resources...