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Assuming you like the 4E rules but don't like the 4E FR, couldn't you just run 2E/3E FR using 4E rules?

What does that mean?

I get what you mean, I think. You're worried that the same way that now you just don't play D&D without a cleric, in 4E you just won't play D&D without a defender, a striker, a controller and a leader. Just like a clericless game, it could be done, but a real issues (such as the monster...

This reminds me of something Mearls said on rec.games.frp.dnd, even before the 4E announcement. Then, I thought the intent was that feats should be more like Empower Spell or Combat Expertise than Weapon Focus or Spring Attack: rather than giving you outright bonuses or powers, they should give...

I'd like having something like this or the Bo9S's swordsage or AU's unfettered: a mobile, agile, bouncy warrior as a counterpart to the armoured, tough fighter. Some of those agile warriors could be rapier-wielding pointy-moustached swashbucklers. Some could be jian-twirling wuxia swordsmen...

One can only hope! Nice to see you here, since you seem to be missing from rgfd lately!

Indeed. Since actions are quite possibly the most precious resource of D&D, most of the time, you're better off using your second-best attack rather than getting your best one back.

If this makes so much more sense (and it does), doesn't it make sense to just assume that's what was meant?

Nice build. :]

I wouldn't read too much into it. Surely, the beholder's performance in the previous cartoon doesn't mean that in the actual game, beholders will be portrayed as Isaac-Hayes-voiced artistes that get all teared up when people appreciate their talent! I mean, right, WotC? Right?

Well... :) That is actually an interesting question, I think. As I see it, the cartoon didn't actually show a gnome character and a tiefling character. It was more like an interview with actors in full costume, only it wasn't actors, but game concepts. Seeing the gnome getting killed didn't...

I'm not getting my hopes up: http://www.enworld.org/images/4e/tiefling.jpg http://www.nerdlives.com/images/tiefling.jpg http://www.d20.cz/img/tiefling.jpg

I'm not a gnome supporter (well, I'd perfer gnomes over halflings, but I'd prefer tieflings over either), but to me the gnome seemed to completely steal the show from the tiefling.

Necropolitan?

I don't think there are any abilities in ToB that last for the duration of the encounter. Anything that's not instantaneous or forever has a defined duration.

Or is it just one challenge in a big encounter that consists of the door, the orcs behind it, and the trap the orcs trigger when it's obvious they're fighting a losing fight? There simply isn't a single answer. Which is exactly what the people who worry about per encounter and encounter-timed...

Why is that? Assuming you're preparing an ambush or a surprise assault, wouldn't it be reasonable to say that the beginning of the scene is when you start powering up, rather than the moment you jump out of the bushes/break down the door and role initiative? How do these self-kill traps work?

This isn't actually an artifact of a per encounter model, because Force powers aren't actually per encounter but per minute. Tracking minutes to see whether you got Force powers back isn't different from tracking minutes to see if divine favour ran out, which was done before people started...

This was stated by the designers? I missed it. Things certainly seem to be moving in that direction, but I don't remember anyone actually saying that this is how it's going to be done in 4E.

The question of whether Melnibonean morals are Evil by D&D standards is dependent precisely upon that: D&D standards. And by those standards, they're Evil. Neither are orcs, drow, yuan-ti, mind flayers, beholders, devils, demons... They're still Evil. You don't have to think of yourself as...