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I believe Peter Svensson posts on RPGnet as...PeterSvensson. I was interviewed for this article, I believe because Peter read my blog as well as a post I made on RPGnet about cobbling together enough info to play 4E without the official rules. I think he thought I'd actually playtested the...

I find some players really enjoy this, but most players don't like it. In my experience. They want to believe the world exists, is real. Not just something you made up. Letting them make part of it up damages this. In some cases, destroys it.

Before I learned that AoE spells now had square areas, thereby making any Euclidian movement solution a mistake, I considered just expressing movement thusly; 6/4. Six squares, only 4 of which can be diagonal. Probably still to complex in practice.

Having given 4E a whirl, so much as is possible, better to say that 4E starts at 3rd level. You have more abilities, can survive, and can effectively do your shtick out of the gate. Instead of having to wait to accumulate powers until you actually resemble the thing you thought you should have...

In memory, my friends and I played OD&D with my friend Jim, who played with Dave Arneson, GMing. http://www.squaremans.com/?p=25 It was pretty cool. 3d6 in order. Though the rules do allow you to buy down some stats and buy up others!

WHY COULD I NOT FIND THAT?! Thanks Hal!

I'm totally doing this.

I swear I saw a 1st level Elf rogue posted here somewhere, that someone tried to build using the rules we've seen. But typically now I can't find it. Anyone know where it was?

So what's the formula for figuring out what a party of seven 1st level characters can fight? Is it just 7 1st level characters = 700 XP so 700 XP of monsters is an even fight?

Hey that's a good idea. What skill check?

Ok, I'm going to give 4E a short runthrough using what we know so far. I told my players this would just be a short dungeon crawl, I prepared them for what is, essentially a game of Descent. We're just testing combat, we don't have the final rules, etc... Has anyone collected anything like an...

Has anyone taken the monster's we've seen so far and put them into something like a PDF formatted for cards? I've seen text dumps, but I'm wondering if anyone's made them look good.

Man I'd give my left...I'd be very grateful if someone could take all the monster stats we've seen so far and format them like this in, like, a PDF or something. Yeah, I could do it, I have FMP which is perfect for this, but I've got a bunch of crap to do this weekend!

My group are all adults, they all have jobs, none of us are living on ramen noodle, I don't think any of them would bat an eye at this. Especially given the desperate need for e-support we've suffered through.

Do we know enough about Classes and Races for players to be able to plan what they'd like to run in an upcoming 4E game? Obviously at this point, with the exception of the Rogue, this would be entirely speculative as far as actual, you know, abilities go. But do we know for certain what races...

They posted a lot of code and design jobs for the DI on Gamasutra, which they never did for 3E so there's reason to believe they've actually got something going.

Ah, now *that's* useful info. Awesome!

Having worked at WotC, I find I can make no assumptions about what they will or will not drop the ball on.

In my gaming group, we just took a battlemat that had Hexes on it, and with permanent marker drew Squares over it. The squares and hexes were at the same scale. It was ugly, but it worked. I could draw rooms and buildings on the squares, and everything moved on the hexes. My group's solution...

No, I understand that you hope they do it, and it makes sense that they should do it, I'm asking: do we actually know if they ARE doing it?