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That would be a bit silly. I wouldn't have everyone sit around and make stabilization rolls until someone wakes up to finish off everyone on the other side (or heal everyone on their side) regardless of what the rules say. Unless you want to risk a TPK x2 (or declare one), the above is the...

No, I don't think it has to be universal to controllers. As I said on the Wizards boards a while back, your role describes what you do in combat, your power source just describes how you are able to do it, and your class describes how you execute it, other flavor, and non-combat functionality...

Ok, now I'm confused. You're not sure that having each role in each power source could be an exercise in creativity. Following you so far. But then you talk about how something isn't a good idea because there are no existing examples of it. Which is the opposite of creativity, really. The...

4e would seem to work very well with what I intended to do in terms of a homebrew. Essentially, a realm where humans haven't been around for millenia, not until the powers of a foreign land decide to start dumping their criminals, debtors, and malcontents there. Eventually, the ships carrying...

I remember when new computer roleplaying games or MMOs would come out, and after reading about the developers saying "we're doing this different," perhaps as in "you won't need to have a certain class combination in your party to be successful," at launch you'd have the players come in, and...

Another good, recent example would be the plot in Elder Scrolls: Oblivion. The player character can travel around dealing with everyday plots and dungeon crawls on their on initiative, but they have to make occassional sojourns to the plane of Oblivion to shut down the Oblivion gates allowing...

True. But 4e seems to have taken most (at least 80%) of the resource management in D&D from per day to per encounter. The timeframe for resource management is compressed. As such, healing needs to happen more often.

I remember seeing some indication somewhere that your spells and abilities will be limited by level, but you can learn as many rituals as you like. There wouldn't be, say, a scroll of magic missile you could scribe and use as a per day or per encounter ability. But you could find a tome that...

Quite the contrary in the case of a combination that some people say can't be done, or done well. It's rather different to say "Ok, we need a dragon for Lawful Evil, Deserts, lightning and the color Blue. So we'll have the blue dragon of the desert that breathes lightning and is lawful evil."...

He's referring to spell selection (or spells known) above with his speculated chart, not spell use. That's why the columns are divided into at will / per encounter / per day. He's not saying that they'll have 5 uses of their at will ability, but instead speculating that they might have five...

I don't think a martial controller has to be any more silly than a martial leader. Here's a guy that is inspiring his allies and creating positive effects across a battlefield by being a really impressive guy in armor with a big voice and tactical knowledge. A controller is just the inverse of...

Eh... Dumbledore's actual cause of death was falling off of a building. Merlin got waylaid by some fine Lady of the Lake booty. Gandalf took a dive with a Balrog before coming back with an "I can wear white after Labor Day" sensibility. Seems like most of the iconic spellcasters don't have to...

While we don't know all the details (for all we know, this could be a wizard that took a Class Training: Cleric or Class Training: Warlord feat to gain some extra abilities) it's not beyond the pale. Healing doesn't mean dial-a-prayer any more. Leaders like Warlords are evidence of this. And...

I think it's possible to have the learned mentors without leaving one to wonder why these more powerful people just don't go out and solve all these problems. In the world I've been thinking about building for some time, one of the human city-state lords in history sent his sons to an outlying...

Making it distinct also presents the opportunity for crossover appeal. If Wizards were to say "here's our version of the Dark Sun wizard, the Defiler" or "this is how wizards work in Dark Sun" then it's a very Dark Sun-specific thing. If they say "here's a new power source and some new...

The Ahn'Qiraj thing doesn't strike me as something that is truly about players changing the world. It's a clever bit of "players changing the world" packaging, but the truth is that it's something that has been developed by the world designers and is more or less inevitable. If it was merely...

It doesn't seem like much of a problem for me. I could see dragons passing down ancient knowledge in the form of rituals, if someone wanted that in a campaign, and simply giving them the rituals with no major effect on the degree of challenge they present in combat. What I really can't see is...

Exactly.

By your reasoning, we shouldn't have the Warlord, either, because shouting out orders while looking and sounding really impressive to inspire the grunts shouldn't provide a healing effect, either. Further, you're relying on pre-4e definitions of "healing." The existence of the Warlord in the...

I think Dark Sun would need a different power source to describe the differences between core arcane magic, and how (non-divine) magic works in the setting. If they did this, then they could "keep" revised versions of each arcane class. A Dark Sun adapted Wizard could be a Preserver, and a...