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In my mind, unquestionably yes. It really has done. You use the example of the PHB, but while there is stuff in there that was absurd broken or outright awful, there was so much good. We had one of the first non-cleric healer classes in 4E ever that was awesome (and still is) in the Warlord. We...

In fairness, I think he's more referencing posters such as myself more than you. I haven't been happy with anything since essentials, though it's worth noting I regularly defended essentials before its release (and when it was released). I only developed my very negative opinions once the MB was...

I disagree with this entirely, because themes in DS are very easy to predict the effects of. I've been playing with them for over a year and I've not had to guess what effect they have on a character yet. You get one power and then have to powerswap - using the normal power allotment - for...

Dark Sun themes were pre-essentials player crunch. It is certain as they were originally published - that I actually liked - are a dead concept and this is what themes will be in future. It would be awesome if my conclusion is wrong and the other themes DO have some DS like ones in them. I...

I can see his point, but they are still just as useful to anyone as they would be an essentials class. It's mostly just that it's pretty clear the DS themes were gutted like this because of essentials (which is a pretty easy to prove point really). You know, with 15 themes I wouldn't have minded...

I agree entirely. What is worse is some of these themes are just begging for clarification (Alchemist, Order Adept, Wizard Apprentice), poorly thought out (Beastmaster) and one is just much better than the others (Order Adept gives a +2 bonus to will at level 5, which is a pretty substantial...

I don't think I've changed, I was more than happy with DnD just a year ago. Given that the game has certainly changed more than me - actually this point is rather unarguable - I don't think that is the case at all. Sorry if I "Down threads", maybe if Wizards actually released good things again...

At least they answered the question about how essentials classes like slayer/fighter would get benefits out of themes. They pretty much gutted the thing that made themes really great for me. I mean DS had 10 themes and not one of them is directly bad in any manner. They all allow any character...

You could say - perhaps cruelly - they are essentialized themes. This isn't really what I was so excited for at all and I entirely agree with your arguments Blue. The Dark Sun themes were so great, what was wrong with keeping to the same general structure and idea?

The problem with it, you have one bad encounter and that's it for an entire adventure. It is rendered completely useless. God help you if your DM puts in a bloodfire harpy with the ridiculous aura 20 fire damage (which you won't be able to do a thing about, given your pet is a 1 HP minion). It's...

There is nothing in the alchemist that lets you create uncommon items with the alchemy feat, because it gives you nothing specific to override the general item creation rules. The problem with this is because wizards haven't bothered properly errata'ing alchemical items to common (which many...

No attack powers beyond level 1 to swap :/ Guess they had to fit in with essentials somehow. I really don't know how to feel about this. I can't help but be disappointed they don't offer the same options as the DS themes do. I am wondering if these themes will get paragon paths and some...

No attack powers beyond level 1 to swap :/ Guess they had to fit in with essentials somehow. I really don't know how to feel about this. I can't help but be disappointed they don't offer the same options as the DS themes do. I am wondering if these themes will get paragon paths and some feats as...

You are just getting everything lately Walter! What are the lowest and highest level monsters in the book? I saw on the excerpt today that they had some Bodaks and other things, statted around low epic tier. Pretty solid looking supplement and I can't wait to get mine from what I've seen.

I actually quite liked this. Some of the other interpretations are quite good. Emily Warren had a very anime feel to it I feel. I liked most of them though. Edit: Number 9 is my favourite. Number 10 was just plain weird, is that a child in the picture? Overall some good stuff.

Dark Sun: The Builder's Cry So I've been a bit lax on writing things up for a bit, but that's because I wanted to leave this until my PCs had advanced a bit further into the game. This means I can give a good explanation of what I'm trying to accomplish in this adventure and how I am...

MM1 monsters always sucked. Expertise did not change that, except for making them marginally less grindy.

Vor Rukoth only has a handful of new creatures, but they are all definitely MM3+ (the solo in particular is a weird one - more of an environmental hazard than a creature). I haven't read Marauders of the Dune sea closely, but it's 90% Dark Sun stuff (I think there is the odd thing not from Dark...

Tomb of Horrors has a mix of MM3 and MM1 creatures. It can be most frustrating. Actually many of Wizards adventures can use unmodified pre-MM3 creatures. Though at heroic tier in some cases this isn't a huge issue - but you can certainly notice the difference in the paragon level + Tomb of Horrors.

The kind of puppy that comes in a box and you open it up and are all, oh man! That's a puppy in a box! What an awesome surprise! Preferably we have air holes in the box this time.