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I intend to ban them as PCs at first, but may allow them later depending on what I see in the PHB. I suspect PHB races will be supported more heavily in future products, so I don't want to completely cut out that portion of the product line. My point of light campaign is especially forgiving of...

I agree pretty much completely except the dragonborn at this point. I've been very happy with the design articles, and some of this new information sounds great (I love how different warlocks and sorcerers already seem from wizards), but dragonborn just wreak of the old "dragons are cool! lets...

I don't know that I get "stars" but I'll wait for an explanation... Interesting that they can align with Fey, and elemental is mentioned in there... making them possibly fit both the fey inspired caster and elementalist people were looking for. The only non-astral sea realm they can't align...

I'm torn... I don't like the idea of the implied setting being too invasive, and the dragonborn fluff mentioned certainly feels that way to me, or to port in races and classes that seem like they should be campaign setting specific.... but at the same time I acknowledge that you can't design in...

I've not read all the replies, which means folks won't likely read mine, but... 1.) I think there is way to much drama over a feat name at this point. I'm just not sure we have enough evidence to be as up in arms as people seem to be. I tend to remember the bonuses I get from feats far more...

Tough question. I said "similar to greyhawk" as that describes my most recent game. My longest running game was set in Dark Sun though, so I'm not married to a single concept of what fantasy is. I'm currently designing a mini setting (point of light if you will) that falls on that similar to...

I'm fairly certain "retraining" rules are being implemented as core. I don't have a source, but I swear I've seen it referenced a couple of times in the development articles or blogs. I think planning won't be necessary, but if you haven't planned and want your character to go another route...

Very impressive, as always... The vulture sphinx is hot. I'm totally using that in a game.

Honestly, I'm not in love with any product that covers any of the 3 rule systems I mentioned. I'm mostly hoping to see the concepts kept alive and reworked into new, better, products rather than simply updating the old products I've already decided I wasn't fond of.

I think less about products and more about mechanics that I've seen in one or more places that truly add something to the game. For instance: Iron Heroes' combat maneuvers that make martial characters as fun as arcane/divine ones. We've seen evidence that some version of that is making the core...

I started cobbling together some basic weapon design tables a while back for a homebrew. The setting had a long, bloody, history of warfare and I thought it made sense for weapon designers to have come up with all sorts of tools of war over the decades. Basically you picked a base group (i.e...

...side-track The use of 100gp pearls in commonly used spells lead my players to realize they were commonly available and worth about the same everywhere. That, combined with their heavy coin purses lead them to start using 100gp pearls as the next denomination of money beyond platinum (10 gold...

Favorite: A rebalanced series of character classes where everyone has options and cool stuff they can do regardless of class or how many encounters they've faced that day. Least Favorite: Eladrin, Elf, Half-Elf, and the looming possibility of Drow as the last race. Way to much elf. Half-races...

I think too much emphasis is being placed on the planes as power sources. The feywild, shadowfell, and elements are arcane. The astral sea is divine. Those are already tapped, and with a race in the PHB actually making their homes in the feywild and being good arcane casters, I think that's a...

I love the idea of power sources. I don't want to see a lot of power sources that overlap too heavily. Ki seems overly martial to me, while mind over body mysticism fits psionics better. I'd rather see the monk made psionic and included with that power source, which I assume will be among the...

The Shadar-Kai are from the plane of shadow... maybe that translates to Shadowfell? The way the cosmology reads the Feywild, Shadowfell, and Elemental Maelstrom (containing the Abyss) planes are all closer to the material than the astral sea and it's pocket dimensions. We have a race from the...

I expect Orc is the new race, and will happily take it. I'm not a fan of a lot of half races, so I'd much rather get orcs than half orcs. I'd be OK with minotaurs, as a huge fan of them from my Dragonlance days, but I'm guessing they are a long shot at best.

I'm skipping ahead a little so forgive me if I'm repeating someone else's thoughts. I don't dilution of the brand has to be a concern if this is handled right. 2008 we get FR. 2009 we get Eberron. These are money makers and will likely spawn a product line for each (hopefully not one that is too...

I resisted Eberron in 3E, but after reading some recent reviews I'm thinking of giving it a try in the future. I'm excited to see how Forgotten Realms pans out. I was a fan back in the day but never ran it as it seemed too heavily supported (I couldn't keep up with the lore or afford to collect...

As long as we aren't kidding ourselves about the Wizard's intentions here. We will eventually have just as many, or more if the market will take it, official products... and likely a new generation of 3rd party material as well. Those bookshelves will fill again. I think some streamlining of...