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Slight tangent: the 'new' dire animals have kind of silly names, like 'vicejaw crocodile' and 'thundertusk boar'. But when I think about it, there are really only three alternatives: one, everything could just be a 'dire whatever' like in 3E; two, the names could use some kind of cheeky...

Oh, come now. Just saying that the monster is 'good at basket-weaving' isn't precise enough. I know that I would roleplay a monster with 7 ranks of basket-weaving VERY differently from the way I would roleplay one with 9 ranks of basket-weaving!

I don't know if WotC has made a specific statement regarding it, but I'd be pleased as punch if there were Large, Huge, Gargantuan, and Colossal versions of each dragon, conveniently aligned with age categories, and that was it.

Sure, there is a cost, but it's not like 6 variants of one monster take as much space as 6 completely distinct monsters. You save a lot of space on Description and Ecology text blocks, and on illustrations.

If only he would improve his taste! I keep trying to explain to him that the masterpieces of the early Robocratic period will be so much more interesting than any of the junk that comes out of the post-transhumanist movement.

Setting Sun school from Book of Nine Swords is all about throwing one enemy into another.

I think we've just found the winner in the contest to replace 'cool' :)

I do see the point that, under the system I had proposed, a character would rather take three small hits, go unconscious, and then take a big hit, than to take the big hit, go unconscious, and then take three small hits. It is a problem. But any system is going to have weaknesses. For...

I don't get why they need to keep in negative hit points. Seems like extra bookkeeping, especially since they count towards dying but not towards healing. Why not just have any damage inflicted on a dying PC force another 'save versus death'?

IMHO, Planescape requires the factions to be fun. The planes themselves were kind of silly. Just give me a slice of 'Outland' (place where collective belief dictates reality) for the factions to fight over, and I'm happy :D

I see. I guess I was not so worried about the last part - the skills as presented were enough 'out of combat' stuff for monsters to be doing for me, and 'monsters as PCs' doesn't come up much in my game world - though it would be nice if it could! I am still actually somewhat skeptical on that...

I agree that the creation of a new edition is the perfect time to fix problems with an old edition. I apologize if I have misinterpreted your post. What, exactly, are you hoping to see out of 4E?

I strongly suspect that if you are hoping that 4E will emphasize bringing more PC-creation folderal to more types of non-player entities, you are going to be sadly disappointed.

Boom! Headshot.

Whoops, mearls beat me to it, and obviously he was right :)

"Alright, I scored a hit! Hammer and Anvil time, Lurks-no-More; grind that punk into dust with this free melee attack you get from my abilities!" "What? Forget you, rkanodia, you're not my boss! Where do you get off telling me what to do?" QFT. It's not like the average general is better at...

When Talinthas and I were roommates, one day he asked for help putting together a bookshelf. We put it together without much trouble, but I told him that he should be careful about loading it up too much, because the pegs holding the boards in place were just some kind of cheap plasticky thing...

I have to say, many players in my group (myself included) are guilty of trying to take other people's turns for them, and I think the Warlord class finally gives me an excuse to put the hammer down on that kind of thing. "If you want someone else to do something for you, take some Warlord...

I don't think anyone on this board knows and is allowed to say how monster creation works. My guess is that 'the chart' doesn't care about what gear an enemy has, but I don't have any evidence to back that up. I think comments my Mike Mearls have suggested that PC levels can be added to...

No, but dawn does.