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I believe that the class training feats are designed to handle this situation (i.e. allowing classes to pick up each other's the talents/powers). It would also seem likely that all martial strikers will have access to talents/powers that let them do cool things with their weapons.

This seems pretty melodramatic. Multiclassing (or the cleric/wizard training feat) seems to be the way to build a 1/2/3e ranger. Most of the folks I know who've been playing rangers have begged the GM to allow them to use variant rangers without spells. IMO this new ranger tightens up its class...

This is the main reason that my Eberron campaign will go on hiatus until the rules for artificers and psionics come out. We have both in the campaign right now.

I voted kill it, but I believe that this quote says it all: Rogues could originally use scrolls because the Grey Mouser could do it. Of course, he had wizard training.

IMC the players always expect some sort of reaction to their activities. I don't see the problem with the example in the article. Players should know that all of their actions have consequences - some good, but some bad.

That may have been your experience. I have never encountered any GMs who've wanted to do nothing more than pick up a module and run it, or to 'wing it' without any prep time.

I use puzzles occasionally as a GM, but have to admit that I've had some pretty bad experiences with them as a player. In my upcoming 4e game, ruins left behind by the ancient scathovan magelords dot the landscape. They used mathematics and geometry to model the rules governing magic. As an...

I would never say never, but it is very unlikely that I will play 3e again. My group and I prefer to keep up with the most current edition. If I did play 3e, it would only be between 5th and 12th level. My own children will begin playing with 4e. I expect this will be our D&D.

OTOH, I have never known any gamers who tracked fractional BAB. I'd never even heard of it until this post.

I think you may be on to something, Lizard. Come over to the Dark Side! 4e will be all things to all people! Well, I'm only half kidding about that. I do believe that the increase in coolness given to the non-casting types is one of the best selling points of D&D 4e. I have maintained for a...

I can only answer this one anecdotally. Not all gamers are hardcore gamers. My wife, for example, loves D&D (we've been playing togwther since 1981). She played GURPS, HERO and RQ when I ran them, but more because she wanted to play with me than for love of those games. She is always most...

My group and I have used static hp throughout 3e (1/2 max + 1), but I would hope that they will include both methods for the sake of those who like to roll hit points. It is no skin off my nose how any other group determines their hp.

My FR Sembia game 3e will be ending around the time when the new edition comes out. I will be replacing it with a 4e game at that time (homebrew this time). My brother-in-law will be finishing his 3e Sword Coast game in two weeks. He'll be running a 3e (plus as many 4e rules we can work into...

This is what I did in my 3e games. The first town I tried to create by using (very loosely) the rules in the DMG seemed off to me. But when I added in the classes of the expanded psionics handbook, the number of heroic classed characters seemed really high. That's when I decided to use broad...

Some fey creatures come from Greek myth (satyrs and dryads for example). I have no problem with the cyclops being a fey creature in 4e. They never fit in with the other giants of Greek myth (for the most part, too civilized and friendly to the gods). The correct (as in original) plural of...

My first 4e campaign will be kind of a PoL light campaign. It is discussed in my gaming blog (url in sig below). The basics: The area around the Sea of Endymion was at the northeastern expanse of the Old Livonian Empire, which fell to civil war and fragmentation more than 500 years ago...

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The point is that they aren't necessarily to include in the stat block. If you want NPCs to be built the same way PCs are, you just have to use the default 1/2 level + stat mod (+5 if trained). I don't see why these types of skills have to be specified in the stat block in order to use them. Of...

I'm glad to see that you can read into my mind so easily. I posted the background profession system I plan to use, because it is just that - a system. You may have noticed that I did in a polite way, without casting any aspertions on your system. I simply stated that I didn't need it. I also...

I'm going to be honest. The system doesn't appeal to me. Unless 4e has a really awesome system for modeling professions (which I doubt), I plan to use a very simple system. The players devise a background for their characters. Did they grow up in a family of bakers? A troupe of dancers? etc...