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LOL, sometimes I forget that D&D players live in a world all their own. I had a whole campaign and gave out 2 magical items, both of which had plot significance. Nobody minded, we were too busy playing the game and having fun. The main thing is that the players didn't let a past D&D...

Heh, I knew I'd gotten that impression from somewhere. So like I said, Warlords will heal too. Not as much as Clerics no doubt, and hopefully in totally different ways, but some.

I rather thought that the Warlord would have some non-spellcasting healing stuff. Just as we were told the that Cleric "gets a surge of healing power" (ug) when dealing a critical, so too might the Warlord heal in unorthodox ways. Perhaps superior leadership allows the reduction of damage at...

Yet another thinks That W-O-T-C Is pronounced whaat-see...

While a big-time D&D player and DM, I haven't bought any new D&D products since I got my 2nd Edition PH, DMG, and Character Sheets. I did get 2 used 3rd Edition PH's for my wife and myself. You can download converstion materials for 3.5, it's not that different. :) 4E sounds so good that I'm...

The reason HP aren't logical is that the represent defensive ability in addition to how much meat there is on your bones. So more skilled defenders get more HP. Thus, tied to class. Hopefully some day HP will be based entirely on sensible things like Strength and Constitution, and class and...

If you think about it logically, there is no reason to list the 3 power sources on the PH1 unless its as OPPOSED to a laundry list of other power sources. It's not like it says "Good, Evil, Lawful, and Chaotic Characters". There'd be no point to that - there's no ALTERNATE lists of alignments...

One of the designers as much as said that the skill system in D&D won't be the same as in SW SAGA. I'm hoping for some kind of mid-way point between 3.5 and SAGA. By the way, for those lovers of 3.5 skills, check the math on a high level character. Go ahead, I'll wait. ... There were errors...

Okay, so if I do a revised list in a couple weeks, I'll take out the losers and any topics that happen to be revealed between now and then. I'll also add: 1. Alignment 2. Skills 3. Level progression power scale 4. Magic Items and other treasure 5. Martial Power abilities Anything else?

To me the major problem with magic items in 3rd AND 2nd Edition is that all these monsters had rediculous loots attached to them that were chok-a-blok with magic items. If the game is redesigned so that magic items are actually important and rare, that would do a lot to reduce the X-Mas tree...

One Small Race to Rule Them All The worst thing in 3E is that there are both gnomes and halflings: its redundant and uninteresting. So even though we'll surely see the gnomes in PH2, the fact that they're not in PH1 is great news. Given that we'll only have one short race, I'd hope that WOTC...

Forgot to include alignment! Good question. While this isn't something I'm personally dying to know, from everything I've heard this is something that's going to ROCK in 4th Edition. From what we know: 1. The cosmology isn't spliced by alignment anymore, seeming to suggest alignment is less...

Let's try to decide what preview we want most!

Where will the other classes go? Where will the classes that don't make it into the PH1 appear? I mean Bard, Barbarian, and Druid are not going to be released in magazines; WOTC will want them to be more prominent than that. Will there be a new PH2? Or perhaps alternate classes in the DMG?

This is a silly and meaningless topic... I like... From what they said at GenCon, the Wizards folks are going to be quite busy with 4th Edition for a while. Even a complete paranoid couldn't expect the official development of 5th Edition to begin until after the rules of 4th are finally...

Definition of Vancian Magic For those of you that don't know, here's the history of spell memorization: 1. In 1950 an author named Jack Vance published the novel "The Dying Earth". 2. In 1974 Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson borrowed the spell memorization concept from Vance when they produced a...

Dude, these ideas are blowing me away. I recommend that everyone who's interested in this thread read those linked articles. The basic idea is this: Replace the class skill / cross-class skill trade-off with an individual skill / skill group trade-off. A character can spend a skill point on a...

"Indian Jones and the WMDs"! Eh? Eh? No? Alright, how 'bout "Indy and the Quest for Osama"? But seriously, they're done with Judeo-Christian artifacts. Fountain of youth, atlantis, excalibur, there are possibilities.

everyone missing the point Such a thing would be unsatisfying to many because there's no depth. In any video game or movie, climatic confrontations have some severe plot turns as well. Aragorn is kinged, Luke becomes a jedi, that sort of thing. If its just "he was bad... now he's dead", well...