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I want Modern 4E to be absolutely free of variance from D&D 4E, aside from cap systems that follow the themes of the core mechanic to allow for the use of more advanced items. I think by allowing drag & drop access to character classes, talent trees, and especially monsters you get a greater...

I really liked the lack of "negative hit points" and the use of a damage track in SWSE. These rules, and what is coming in 4E, feel like a step backwards. I think SWSE did it right, in a less-than-realistic but very cinematic way. I'm putting this on the, relatively small, list of rules I hope...

We have done "little e evil and big E Evil" debates to death. The person in your example is little e evil at best. If you are playing with the 3.5 rules it is important that you look at what the prerequisites are for an Evil alignment. Your guy is slipping towards the role of oppressor, but (in...

This is certainly another way to look at it, with the same results... and probably requiring less messing with game mechanics. I'm going to consider this option.

I love this idea, until you go and add plusses back in as additional supplementation above and beyond what is expected. If I use it, I'll leave that step out. I'd really like to see some variation of it added to the DMG as an optional play style. I'll have to wait and see the finished product...

When 4e was announced I was guardedly optimistic. As information started to come I found myself liking about 80% of what I heard, and expecting at least half of what I didn't like to be minor enough to be left out or easily house ruled. With the most recent information I'm finding the rules...

I've not read every post, so forgive me if I'm echoing what has already been said. I'll have more time to read previous posts later today. My gut reaction was that the christmas tree was alive and well but, if the listed items are the sum total of the character's magic items minus consumables, I...

Some good ideas here... I've been working on a setting for 4E that focuses on a trade city. Now that the empires have fallen away it has become the center of world trade, especially between the city-states of the "old world" and the various tribes and kingdoms of the "new world". I've been...

Yesterday morning, on a popular morning radio show here in DC, someone was talking about violence and youth and violent video games and Dungeons & Dragons was mentioned by name. The negative image of our hobby still exists.

dude... if they don't do that, they may in my campaign. That sounds really cool.

I'm not buying that argument. Cleric and paladin are both, as of 4E, just as available to evil characters as good ones. Why is it that making pacts with evil doesn't dilute the evil clerics and paladins, but good pacts would? Pacts with good powers are every bit as valid. As someone else...

I like the Alchemist idea... I'm not sure it's a martial class though. I think I prefer it under the Artifice/Invention/Science power source we've discussed in the past.

I'm not certain what action could have been taken, but I certainly appreciate this clarification.

I don't think the grid has to be filled in, and it's unlikely that I'll purchase a book from a 3rd party that's primary appeal is the filling in of the grid. I'll just wait and see what power sources Wizards puts out, and how each is supplemented. That said, it's still fun to speculate... I'd...

I think GR has a solid set of games with fanbases that will likely be large enough to support them at least until they can start putting out 4e products without paying the $5k. Lots of game companies exist without being associated with D&D or the d20 mechanic. You can be in the game industry...

I wish I could, though words will likely fail me. I see it as nothing more than the points. Any defined area of the world is no larger than one of those points, and the person running the individual campaign decides which points make up his or her setting and where they are in relation to one...

Then, in my opinion, you aren't going to be happy with a Points of Light style game. You'll want to pick up, or create, a campaign setting instead. Don't get me wrong... I've been building top-down worlds for years. I start with a world map and a creation myth and work my way down through the...

I'm hoping everything else gets buffed, and spellcasting gets nerfed. I like the idea of a veteran ranger who is in tune with the feywild and maybe able to use it's influence to work helpful rituals in natural places, but I'm less fond of the rangers with spell lists that we've seen in past...

IMHO: If you are going to map it, you might as well use an existing campaign setting. I like PoL. I like common lore and place names. The designers need to learn some restraint and save the world building for worlds.

The reboot post was fan-freaking-tastic. The reply post regarding warlocks who make pacts with the mists... I'm sold. I'd buy that game.