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Ah, the good old days! I miss those days when AD&D players talked about their mighty adventures and the 3.x people sulked in corners worrying about their builds and their class balance and their cries that the GM didn't use the CR chart to their satisfaction. But those days are gone. Most...

9 magic items at 11th level = Christmas Tree That's not even counting the potions / scrolls / other expendables. This is NO fewer items than I see in 3.X games. Personally, I like 1 magic item per 3 levels, so an 11th level character would have 4 items. I hand out magic items like candy...

The lack of alignment will hurt D&D. "Chaotic A$$hat" will become (even more) the default playstyle because there will not be a clearly defined moral line. New DMs especially will have trouble trying to maintain a heroic tone. And most RPGs have alignment systems, just with different...

I had really hoped that +X magic items would have died off. Nothing is more boring than a +1 sword. I had hoped that after Earthdawn and Diablo, D&D would realize that +X magic was just tiresome and "unmagical" in any way. Give me a Crimson Sword of the Tiger any day over a +X item.

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"Commoners = goodly people" is very setting dependent. I run Stormbringer and Warhammer where almost everyone's a dirty rat bastard. Often, the PCs are still true heroes in the face of these facts. When I ran my Diablo D&D, then "commoners = goodly people" because by comparison to the...

I have never been impressed with FR. It was always a weak and generic setting compared to the other TSR offerings. I am just very glad it is not the default setting for 4e. I feel bad for the RPGA players who won't get another option for their campaign world.

Many other RPGs have warriors equal to wizards. Tunnels & Trolls got the balance right in the 1970s by having warriors do tremendous damage at high levels. My 5th level T&T warrior can kill several orcs in a single attack. He can hack down a small dragon alone and without magical items...

We will see. The RIAA's crusade and the new changes to US laws regarding IP may create restrictions on how much can be posted and where. Look at D20srd.org - the site uses the OGL without breaking any rules, but it has become the defacto replacement for the PHB, MM, DMG and UA. What began...

I am concerned about how playtested such products may be that are published so fast out of the gate. Remember how the Creature Collection needed erratta? New classes / races really need playtesting most of all.

I am very glad that small and micro publishers will be given the opportunity to publish in 2009. The first 6 months after the 4e release will be players testing out the new rules and new PoL setting with a total focus on the cores. After that, players will be looking about for what else to...

Why would half-elves not be the result of human brigands raping elves? Why is elf / human breeding always tragic love? Orcs = auto evil, elf = auto good is standard, but when did human = auto good? I would be happy for WotC to create a new race that some people call half-orcs, but whose...

I love the 20 = double damage randomness - especially when it splatters PCs. But then again, I love dangerous, crazed combat that could lead to death at any turn. When a 3D6 attack suddenly becomes 34 damage and the demon standing in front of you gets his head lopped off, that is an awesome...

I like it when the poop hits the fan...and the fan explodes. Remember the Four Lands from Ultima I? I am considering doing a campaign using those maps. The world was teeming with dungeons and monsters - travel was downright dangerous. The only places of safety were the towns and walled...

I run D&D tournaments and one of my major rules is that your characters are ALWAYS alert and looking for danger. You can always take your time to search for something if you like, but when there is a trap, I ask the person about to trigger the trap to make their roll. If success, then I say...

If you want anime fantasy, play Exalted. Exalted 1e a great game and tremendous fun for anyone who enjoys over-the-top fantasy combat and magic. Awesome setting too. 4e is obviously WoW inspired and the designers would be stupid to ignore a game that has 9 million players worldwide. WoW...

1) Kill the silly 2) Amp the cool In particular, I would make the setting more accessible for low level characters and I would create a more dynamic ruleset for dealing with boarding and ship combat and a detailed system for trade. Think Serenity via Fantasy.

My little absurd wish is that 4e has a Magic Item Creation schema like the Diablo books did. I would SO prefer having a Butcher's Blade of Cunning than a +2 Axe. I use the Diablo book for my OD&D games and it rocks!

Here's the real answer: DMs are suckers. They could double the price and sell just as many. We buy the DMG, the MM, the MM 2, 3, 4, 5 and all sorts of books, minis and dice while we are lucky if the players buy their own copy of PHB.

Once you stop giving a damn what other people think and start doing what you love without worry, you will find life is much more fun. I can't imagine anything more lame than watching sports or reality TV or playing MMOs with nothing but grind. However, if that's what someone enjoys, that's...