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It seems to me that most posters in the 4E forums feel that 4E is moving D&D away from them and the game they want to play, or toward it, although it oftens feels like both. For my part, the simplification of rules is moving it toward my my playing style, which makes me say "yay 4E", but the...

Pure Xmas silliness. I nominate: Subterranean homesick blues - Bob Dylan For all those poor drow missing their families while they pursue missions of unspeakable evil on the surface world. Don't fight it (if you don't know what it is) - The Panics Good advice for avoiding a TPK. Battle of...

I like fragile starting PCs, both as a player and a DM. Hitpoints are an abstract that represents skill and luck as much as toughness, and it's appropriate that an apprentice stands a good chance of getting kyboshed when they first face a genuine foe who wants to kill them, which is why "my...

Nice. I pronounce it to rhyme with grow, because it sounds subterranean and menacing, whereas rhyming it with cow sounds like a venereal disease the party fighter picked up at the half-orc brothel. However, "drow" is derived derived from "draugr" and is pronounced to rhyme with cow.

Has no-one mentioned the real halflings yet? About 3' 6" to 4' - hobbit or gnome sized. And ate possums, according to NG

A thousand times yes! I cite the case of child soldiers: in melee they're no use against adults, but with an AK47 they're effective troops, same as your 3' halfling with his throwing knives. I've always raised an eyebrow at melee gnome and halfling characters, because verisimilitude says...

So it's understandable that you would know nothing of his other, pulp, work, or the numerous authors and artists who come under "et al".

Well, it's establishing the three factors: age of player, edition first played, and current attitude to 4e. I think Firelance's number crunch is the real juice. Some points: 1. 1e is the option for all editions prior to AD&D 2. There is no "undecided" option because it would return a result...

Indeed. D&D is sword-and-sorcery in the style of Robert E. Howard et al. Someone wrote a great post a few months ago about the the influences on D&D from Orientalism to folk stories, but I don't know where it is. True, but I've noticed an increasing tendency in D&D to treat celestial...

But they may be loaded up with arcane gear! Perhaps I'm jumping the gun, but the themes seem to contain less of this, and more of this. It makes sense to assume that 4e will accomodate players who like to restrict steaming, glowing swords to higher levels, but the tone of the pre-release...

I think the intention is to build a new, better audience. Refer to "firing the customer" threads for the debate.

I sincerely hope so. Anyway, we'll all know soon enough.

Heroic/Paragon/Epic are just titles. Paragon-level characters may turn out to be demigods compared to previous edition mid-levels.

I hope not. 3e allowed (or encouraged) PCs to get into some pretty heavy gear at low-mid levels, and it seems the push is on to skip non-heroic, world-saving levels and adventure altogether.

Ah, yes. I mean 1e to include all editions prior to AD&D.

Yes, criticism accepted. But I've given up all hope that 4E might halt the march toward player characters becoming arcane versions of Space Marines.

Unsurprisingly, reception of 4E appears to be based on the gaming history and art influences of the audience. So, just to get a crude idea of who's where and why, please tick a box. I'm not a demographer, so you needn't point out the faults in the poll.

Oh, good. I would hate for a poor, inexperienced character to have to start with chainmail and a decent sword. A 1st level PC shouldn't be leaving the house without feyrazor-woven mithradamantite astral battleplate and a talking, hellforged sword the size of a Boeing 747.

That's not so. Tolkien's hobbits were insular on a social level - the social level of a cloistered, prosperous English country village in peaceful times. That description of one community at one point in time was then perpetuated in D&D until it came to represent all hobbits, in every...

I don't know where the new halflings acquired the reputation of each one champing at the bit to leave a peaceful and prosperous life to go and jump down the throat of a dragon in search of a stack of gold. Doesn't sound like a sound evolutionary develoment.