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Indiana Jones style. We went on an expedition to Xen'drik to explore an ancient proto-Aerenal temple, racing against a group of Valenar racial supremacists. Back in Sharn we were joined by a kalashtar and from him we found out that the temple is also somehow connected the Quori.

Moving 30 ft. and then using Whirlwind Attack?

Quite so. It still might offer insight into the way Mearls is looking at things.

Very good point, IceFractal. But I remain hopeful that there's still room for a true controller in 4E, perhaps making it even more fun. Mearls' drider writeup perhaps offers interesting hints. Consider a system where charm, suggestion and dominate all inflict "mind control points" on enemies"...

I don't know your players, there might be significant bias hidden in this observation. IME, folks who use PHB only are the kind of folks who don't enjoy the optimization minigame, and they get overshadowed because they're not good at it at least as much as because the PHB options are objectively...

It seems to me that there's plenty of system mastery required to use Bo9S to it's full extent (whether by design or not). It takes very little play experience to master the fact that Toughness sucks things you're not allowed to say on EN World. Bo9S offers so many options that aren't directly...

I've just had a chance for a quick browse through the Dawnforge campaign setting. In the races chapter, there seem to be some striking similarities with what we've heard of 4E: character gain significant racial abilities from 1st-10th (multiple +2 stat boosts, upgrading SR 5 + level to 10 +...

One aspect I haven't seen considered (but maybe that's just because I'm in a hurry so I was skimming :)) is that nothing guarantees that people who aren't happy with the direction WotC is taking the game will be happy with the direction a hypothetical 3.75 will take. By definition, diehard...

Fighter/wizard. :)

Oh, I agree that the warlock is an early example of what might now be called 4E thinking. But the class never made me think "video games". The knight was probably the first class that did that, because by then I knew enough about WoW to notice how there was a sort of positive feedback loop...

Sorry for picking out what might be a peripheral point, but it interests me: why is the warlock as an at will caster a very "video game" change? It seems to me that your typical fantasy wizard (even though there's really no such thing) looks like something quite close to a hybrid of the...

That's actually pretty big of you. Honestly, without sarcasm. :)

Leaving out the reference to Paizo (I don't perceive them as the holdout of 4E/WotC-haters they're sometimes portrayed as), this is exactly what I thought. Considering how extremely touchy people can be in these threads, I was pretty surprised to see something like this from Scott. Not that I...

Take that, Odysseus. :D

Level?

How about this? Look at her oversized eyes, sharp little nose, spikey hair...

2/3 is toast while 1/3 is a viable market?

Anybody got any idea why melee is "+9 vs AC" while spines are "+9 Dex vs Ref"?

18 + 5d6 + 6 x (Con +2) = 47? d6 for skirmisher, triple max at first level like in Saga.