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Yes, this. Not rules modules. I really shouldn't try to write these at 11 PM on Thursday night.

I meant spell level, so two spells each from 1st to 5th spell level. I need to review the "Use of the Word Level" section from basic D&D before I write these things!

FWIW, the tradition approach makes it very easy for us to mix different spell casting mechanics into one class. So, you can imagine one tradition gives only dailies, and another gives signature spells unique to it that you can regain, and so on. Those differences can also extend to at-will...

Yes, that was the inspiration. I loved the Fifth Age RPG.

I think you can learn a lot about a game by listening to how people describe it after they play it. It shows you how they interact with, see, and process the game. For instance, last weekend I played Carcassonne. I had some lucky draws I was able to exploit by managing my meeples well. I was...

The same *exact* thing happened during my Keep on the Borderlands campaign. I dropped the name without even thinking about it, and the table burst into laughter. I think I'm going to change the guy's name to Balsac. That'll fix it.

New domains are a lot of fun to design. If anything, we'll have to make sure we don't do too many. While the domains support the warpriest with class features and new options for the paragon path included in Heroes of the Fallen Lands, they also include 2 at-wills and an encounter power at each...

Here's a post to point out that I haven't posted in a while. Note that this post does not count as an actual post, per se, but is merely an observation regarding the lack of posts and should not be regarded as an actual post for purposes of determining my last post as such. I hope that's clear.

Glad folks liked the seminar. Funny how the modron was on that list, isn't it?

When we talked about the change to Melee Training, we also talked about feats, powers, and other options for classes that like basic attacks but don't use Strengths. It's something that is on our to do list. I'll make sure we look at the shaman AC issue while I'm at it and approach it from a...

It does not apply to curse and especially hunters quarry, for precisely the reasons you cite. And yes, warlords are happy. From the design side, I really like that the martial leader interacts really well with the essentials martial classes. It's fitting, IMO.

I believe it is an change for the sneak attack mechanic used by all rogues, rather than just a change for the thief.

I believe sneak attack is intended to be used every turn rather than round. The idea behind Feinting Trick is to give you what amounts to a different striker mechanic for when you can't get combat advantage. For instance, a short bow using thief can get a lot of mileage out of that trick at...

Blarg. You're not missing anything. Normally a trick's effects and combat advantage would work together. That's what I get for posting almost immediately after jogging a mile.

That is correct. The rogue's back stab fills that space. Looks like it's a simple copy and paste error. There have been some issues in keeping the format when transferring text from the PDFs to HTML, so I imagine that the power strike text was accidentally left in whatever template is used for...

A quick word on balance: The roles go a long way to making sure that, even if classes have different types of powers, they all play an important and useful role in the game. Regardless of how a wizard uses his powers, he can't duplicate the knight's ability to lock down monsters and hold them...

There were a few jokes about that during the design process. Really, though, the mechanic is meant to capture the flavor of an alert, experienced warrior. While the rogue inspects a locked door and the wizard tries to translate the runes scribed above it, the fighter keeps his eyes open for...

Yes. Sorry it wasn't as clear as it could be. I was speaking from a design standpoint.

If it fits the class's flavor, we'd consider doing that.

You can expect that most classes going forward will have: 1. A unique mechanic, either in terms of actual rules or flavor/effect. Knights have stances, warpriests have domains, mages have schools. 2. The option to use a standard 4e power advancement scheme, like the mage and warpriest, or...