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My theory is, they will hit June no matter what. If they don't think they're ready for the printer, then they'll trim stuff out and put it into the next set of books a year later.

Here's a tip that works great for me. Sometimes, when an NPC is just there as a combat plot device, don't stat him at all. Even if you know he's a bad guy that the players must fight, kill, and find the treasure map in his backpack, you still don't need to stat him. If your group is 15th...

Now, this is how it's presented in the PHB 2. I can understand retraining. I personally know a doctor who went to law school, passed the bar, practiced law for a couple years, then decided he wanted to become a doctor: back to school (med school this time), internship, and now he's a doctor...

Oh, no no no. The initial game mechanics are the real problem here. You've just describe a core flaw with the skill sytem in 3.x: Player: I intimidate the orc. DM: OK, what's your skill roll. Player: Oh, yeah, I can't intimidate because I spent my 2 skill points on Craft(Blacksmith) and...

Why, oh why is there no mention of Maztica? TTBSE! (Totally The Best Setting Ever) Please quote me for truth!

This is a great perspective. I ofen use this perspective in my 3.5 games, too. However, I take it a bit farther. I assume that an unusual item has a history and a unique appearance, but a more common item is much less likely to have that kind of interest. My attitude with 3.5 is that levels...

I agree entirely. What if magic in 4e works just like 3.5e, but prices were eliminated. Since they are giving magic items levels, they could simply say "when pregenerating a higher level character, choose 1 item appropriate to his level, and 1 item at level-2, one more at level-4, etc." This...

Well said. I'm curious as to what you might suggest for those guidelines. Caes example: suppose 4e were designed so that nobody would have any of these kinds of magic items. Slippers of Spider Climb, or Carpet of Flying, maybe. But nothing that affects combat. Given that, what guidelines would...

OK, so the question still stands, if there is one core system, and magic items are optional, how do you balance that core system to accomodate characters with magic items and also accomodate characters without? If a CL 8 encounter is balanced for an 8th level group, and that group has no magic...

OK, given this answer, then what do we do with game mechanics like damage reduction and incorporeal? How would a fighter ever hurt a ghost, spectre, wraith, etc., without a magical weapon? How about iron golems? Demons? Would we change those monsters so that anyone can hurt them with any old...

I'm not trolling here; I'm genuinely curious. I've read a bunch of threads where a bunch of people have posted about items tht add +x to some D&D value, such as +2 to hit, or +4 to Strength. Many people really dislike these kinds of items. One argument against them is that "they are...

This has to be a troll, right? I mean, of all the 4e changes to gripe about, and I'm still firmly on the go/no go fence myself, I see 1, 2, 3, and 4 on your list as very good things to fix. I'm thrilled to death that they're fixing each of those things. Wizards relying on crossbows half the...

You want an overpowered monk, then go fro 1/2 celestial with a Vow of Poverty feat. Ick. i have since houseruled that the Vow of Poverty cannot be applied to classes designed to be poor and non-reliant on the Christmas Tree of magic items, such as th emonk.

Lol, is that a new 4e magic battle axe with muscles? I like this whole new "Magic is strange and wierd" concept... Seriously though, I have also noticed that some of this flavor smacks of Warhammer-esque flavor. I liked the WFRP setting, but not so much the game mechanics. Maybe 4e D&D will...

My take, which will no-doubt be buried in the pile of unread replies, is that video games like WOW need to focus classes into set roles. You expect a warrior to tank, a wizard to blast, a priest to heal, and a rogue to sneak around and backstab. That's fine for WOW. That isn't fine for a PnP...

I voted for "Better Than" but it's not quite accurate for my campaign. I use The Primal Order, a great little book that gives a whole new set of "Primal" powers that far transcend anything a mortal can ever do. Examples: Primal Blast: A bolt of pure primal power that automatically hits what it...

What was weak? I presented a hypothetical version of Power Attack and destroyed it by increments to illustrate that at some point, some hypothetical version becomes a feat that nobody would take, not even roleplayers. Then I referred back to that by suggesting it is already at that point ass...

You do realize that 32.41% is not the majority of our peers, right? In fact, it looks like the majority of our peers would be the 67.59% who chose something other than Warlord. As for me, givin this list, I think both warlord and marshal have the same problem: they both sound like someone who...

That's only part of the point. It doesn't have to be about number crunching. What if the rules for PA said "Apply a penalty to your attack roll and add half that amount to damage"? Would you take it then because it was cool? What if it only added 1/4 the amount of the attack penalty? Would...

Who said there's no spellcasting or power words in these Smite abilities. Spells have components that complicate their use. Verbal components can be silenced. Somatic components can be interrupted by grapples, being tied up, etc. Material components can be taken away. This complicates...