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I like D&D because it is D&D. I like it even, or expecially with all its little and not so little idiosincrasies and weirdness, the elemental, quasi elemental and paraelemental planes, positive and negative energies, the great well, vancian magic, the 9 alignements, beholders and illithids, I...

Like I said "if they do it right", but consider this, all the announcement they made until now seems to have the single objective to "psyche" us up, And apparently seems to be aimed to a 12 years old public or very near, just look at how many time they use words as "cool", "exciting" and...

Or another possibilities is that the local menace need the intervention of the higher level NPCs while the global menace can be dealt with by the much lower level PCs, let's take his mage guild example, sure the high level wizards could dispatch the the evil cult in a wink, but while they do so...

If magic items are not so tied to power than wealth is not a problem anymore, in 3rd edition the problem with wealth was only that PCs could use it to buy powerful weapons and armour i.e. large bonus to AC, BAB and stats, but apparently in 4D! power don't come from magic items anymore, (not in...

"beng a wizard mean blasting enemies with magical energies" - a 4d! designer which name escapes me now. I thought that was just a figure of speech but apperently he meant it very literaly.

There are no stars in 4D!,You see, you can't have adventures on them so designer decided they are useless and they are just tiny speck of light in the sky, the same for planets. Also, the sun is just a ball of fire in the sky some kilometer of radius, maybe less After all why make it bigger? It...

Hey, it is 4D!, they could say it use hit points and people would be excited about it. :)

Practically Star Trek. (including the "outsider as humanoid with weird faces" thing) :)

the "problem" (note: it is not really a problem) is that D20 modern don't have a specific ambientation/setting or even genre, it can be played as a horror, sci-fi, spy, investigation, cops & robbers or any other knid of modern game or combination of, and with this premise it is not easy to come...

It is no more weird than people being enthusiast about things they imagine might be in the game, on the chance that it'll turn out to contain elements that they are excited it might contain, but there is no real basis for imagining that it'll contain those elements. (Malladin ninjaed me :) )

Quote (and read) all the message, please How could they know he is not a paladin but a fighter /cleric ? Just because Paladins have i.e. Lay-on-hands? But how could they know that paladins have lay-on-hands?, all they know is that there are some holy warriors that have this special ability to...

To me it feel more a new, different game than a new edition.

And how you or them can tell without reading the PHB/DMG? like Someone said what people would know is that there are bards that can cast spells and bard that cannot. The only thing people could say is that some paladin can i.e. heal spontaneously and someone cannot. it is not like NPCs goes...

that some classes are so specific i.e. not generic is IMHO one of the flaws of 3rd edition, While I think that the generic classes of unhearted arcana are a little too extreme I believe that classes should in the direction to be as generic as possible and heavily customizable. That said while...

Wait, are you saying that there is really someone that reads and actually use those parts? I thought that they put it there because... well, to be honest I've no idea why they put it there, they are at best useless and at worse damaging, with their implied concept that things like Classes are...

Yeah, about those "I hope traditions are the equivalent of domains" comments that are running around in this thread, I hope not, because to be blunt, domains as a way to personalize gods and religons sucks. I hope (but, to be honest, doubt it) that they will come out with something better for 4D!.

You could be right, but I'm sure I read a news saying that the PHB should be disponible at february, probably not as in "for sale" but as "the content is mostly definitive". Checked, I was thinking to the "D&D experience" the 1st D&D demo, and I think at that point the rules would be pretty...

No, I'm not happy at all, the PHB it is supposed to be ready in around six months but all we have is some bit of fluff (not even definitive) and little/nothing else. My impression is that WotC is just trying to build hype for 4D! releasing info drop to drop, but with me they are getting the...

I think that if you want them to use those effects later in the combat, those should have some kind of negative backslash, so they use them only as a last resort (i.e. after using it they get fatigued, or suffer some temporary stat damage (temporay could mean, pass in 1 day or pass with 5...

The funny thing is that it is the supreme power only because they didn't create enough monsters resistant to it.. NPC "They just found a bunch of new monsters resistant to sonic damage wizards NPC: Weird. all my sonic based spells are just gone a level lower. :) But really, as long as they...