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The way I see it healing in combat is (IMHO) the new way to (potential) brokeness in 4e. healing seems to be in 4e much more important that everything else when it come to win a combat. Consider this, the only permanent condition (for given values of "permanent") in 4e seems to be, for what we...

That is a good question. to me it translate in "if you were a wizard in real life, which spells would you want to be able to cast?" and my answer to this would be "certaily not 100+ variations of "kill enemies with magical energy blasts". 3.5 was quite lacking from that point of view, IMHO. 4e...

Well, it is just an example, beside we have a precedent in 3e with Sonic, which was more powerful of other energy damages because there are less monsters vulnerable to it (or so I gathered.) We'll have to see the complete rules before to say it. I'm just saying that keyword based games can have...

A possible problem for keywords can be had where you try something to the system which is not already covered by the existing keywords, let's suppose, for example, that I want to add a new type pf damage i.e. Radiation. then I'd have two choice, either adding a new keyword (which would risk to...

Yeah, a thing I never liked of 3e was why a fire god should have any powers over the undead? (beside the ability to burn them to a crisp). To not mention tihngs like, I dunno a god of wealth and trade.

Just so I know for future reference, where do you think I wasn't polite?

But the 1st level human guard is not a Normal Man, it is a "Monster", not conceptually different from the Pit Fiend or the Angel of Vengeance, the only diffenrece is the level and that the fluff describe it as "human guard".

I don't know about 'retro', but 4e look a lot like a D&D parody to me. Many of the things I've seen for 4e are so over the top (healing surges, for example) that I could have read them in Hackmaster or Munchkin and I would have not raised an eyebrow. Every time I read the "pcs are heroes and...

This. All of this.

That is true for most of the 4e monsters, too. Put enough rock throwing peasants together and even epic level monsters must be careful. :)

Something I was wondering and was never really addressed by the previews, if you roll a 20 an an attacks do you hit whatever high is the defense you are aiming for, like in previous editions?

Something, ANYTHING, not related to combat would be nice. If such a thing exist in 4e, of course.

When I read the name I tought it had to be a flying sword. With wings. Heck, D&D had worse monsters. Actually I think a monster like that existed in some previous edtion.

But the Mark of death is not a Marking ability. See, it don't says the target is Marked.

I don't see why, sure they fly but a good number of base classes have ranged attacks with good damage, and if swordwings use their reach to saty out of normal melee (but not all) they can't use their sudden strike power, that works only against adiacent enemies, and they can't do AOs (no...

Two things: 1) I hope characters will have a *LOT* of feats. Between "multiclassing", racial feats and who-know-what-else they seems to be used for many, many things in 4e. 2) I wondetr if racial feats can be retrained, too "yes, I knew how to enlarge my breath weapon, but I forgot how to do...

I think the wizard /fighte would be a gimped combination, because while he have the Power he lack the armors that would give him enough AC to enter in melee to use it, the hit points and healing surges to survive that melee and the proficiences to use weapons with enough damage to make those...

Yea, if one llike mechanics that make sense skill challenges probably are not for him. Do you ask your players to explain how they swing the sword to a goblin, too? As I said, I'm not a thief, I should not have to know how to disable a trap to play one. look at the OP, player found (apparently)...

And my answer would be, "How could I know? I'm not a thief, my character is, an expert one, too. HE should know what to do." Actually, I'm not even sure what do you mean with that. And this would mean that the players will *never* use the most logical skill as first thing in any skill...

I could say zero, but I suppose I've have still some hope that in the rituals or the feats or in the powers that we have not yet seen there will be something more interesting then "1001 ways to kill monsters". So .... 2.