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Bold type is mine, for emphasis. This may be one of the most melodramatic things I've seen posted in this forum (not that MealStorm is the first one to post it). WotC is no more holding the customer hostage because Bards and Druids are not in PHB I than it is because Psionics, Favored Souls...

Count me in the group that's happy about closing the ranges a little bit. I really like wizards and sorcerers, but I am embarrassed sometimes at how far away from a battle I can stand (or fly) and control the battlefield. Given how tactical 3e combat was, I don't see how it can be moreso in 4e...

This was my reaction as well. 4e seems to be very close to the system I've been trying to create through house rules since the 80s. I should be able to run my new campaign (a reboot of a very old and long running homebrew) better in this system than I've ever been able to do in earlier editions...

response about Real world racial stuff removed - PS On the OP, I dislike any name ending in -ling. That includes halfling. Of course I also dislike races with half in their name. I often rename races IMC, so it's no problem for me.

The first thing I noticed was the lack of spikes/barbd/jabby bits poking through its skin. I am so happy I may just cry.

I would be so happy. In 2e I tried to convince my GM that (at higher levels) my bard should be able to call his mariachi posse, just like fighters and clerics got all those followers.

Here we go again. Those who prefer the fact that D&D hp now have mechanics that reflect the flavor they've had in every edition are just folks who like wahoo unrealism and want to blithely forget whatever tenuous relationship the game had with being another person. We've heard all these...

I can see how someone could take the comment as an insult (and I have no insight at all into the mind of the poster), but that isn't how I read it. I took it to mean that 3e required (in the opinion of many) a lot of tweaking to make it work. Monte Cook was one of those designers always jumping...

Lucky guy I'm extremely lucky that my wife loves D&D (maybe not as much as she does, but I don't get her Adrian Paul obsession either). We've been playing together since middle school (1980). We've already budgeted for new 4e rules. But we always budget about $100.00 a month just for new game...

Just a few scattered thoughts It seems that most of the fears folks have expressed over the coming of 4e have proven to be false. That said, there have been a few things posted since DDE that IMO represent real concerns over the rule set's compatibility with individual style of play. 1) Lack...

It doesn't sound funny to me. I hate flipping back and forth in one book while trying to stat out an opponent.

I would like to agree with Darren, to point. It has been my experience that indecisive players slow the game down significantly. The time it takes to resolve each player's actions is also really high in 3e. I haven't noticed it so much from the spell casters as I have from the the fighters with...

Unless you are asserting that there is no social interaction in D&D now, then I don't know how a social encounter system is necessary. I've already stipulated that it may be a great system, and that a lot of people may really like it. Heck, I may even like it once I read it and give it a try...

This is the kind of article I like to see in Dragon, rich in ideas that spur creativity in the reader and lacking annoying mechanics.

I'm looking forward to reading the new social encounter system in 4e. I will be keeping an open mind. But as I said earlier, I have never seen a mechanical system for social encounters that didn't detract from my enjoyment of the RP experience. My gut instinct is still that those who love RP...

Celebrim, I've gone back and reviewed the thread and I still have to maintain that you have not explained how the 4e rogue will dictate how the character must be played. You've stated that it will do so, but you haven't explained how the new class limits the way you play it. If we're talking...

This is the crux of the matter with the rogue class. IMO it is bad design to penalize a character class in combat in exchange for an increase in social skills. My campaigns focus on role-playing. Story and character interaction are the central elements of the campaign. Nonetheless, combat takes...

We'll have to wait and see, since we've seen neither head nor hair of any non-combat related crunch in the preview material. The designers have said that the whole social encounter system is optional. IMO this is a good thing. I like social skills, since they allow a player to play a character...

All of your reasoning above pretty much matches my own. I like the 1-1-1-1 diagonal movement because it is easier and because my maps are often filled with enough obstacles that characters are forever moving diagonal to get around them. The situation with a character moving a longer distance in...

I'm not quite sure how the character would be underpowered. Some rogues are better at strength based powers while others are better at dexterity based powers. No one character can be the best at everything. What I'm saying is that you can take any of the powers listed. They aren't limited by...