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Gary will live on through the body of work he produced to build this great hobby for all of us. I wish sincere condolences to his family and friends.

Except for this guy. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JD2Mb8pM6E8

Impossible. He's wearing a magic ring. ;)

Okay, you've caught me. I play D&D.

A humour thread that's actually funny. Good effort making that fit.

If that works for you then go for it. Clearly the majority of settings have run just fine - and I've had fun playing in them - letting these things happen conveniently offstage. Personally I find settings more interesting when they do try to take into account that these types of things are going...

I agree that it does that, but whether or not it breaks the game depends on the setting. As much as I enjoy dishing out a good dicing I'd be more interested in seeing the default setting WotC will present with 4E being one that has a society that acknowledges and has adapted to account for the...

So you've brought back the 1E bard with that build? *steeples fingers* Ehhhxcellent.

Thanks, I wasn't aware of that as I only started looking closely at the 4E rules information with D&D XP.

I think it more likely that the equivalent of DC in 4E is achieved with the Attack strength. So Sleep has and Attack of +5 vs. Will. There may be an equivalent to 3.5E Deep Slumber later in the Wizard career that is identical to Sleep except that it has an Attack of +10 vs. Will. Low level...

Not quite. In the case of sleep at least the attacker's roll vs Ref/Will/Fort determines the extent to which you can be affected. If the attack roll is sufficient then you may be hit with the full effect of the spell IF you fail your saving throw. I think that will be a common structure for...

I've spent a fair bit of time musing on "What makes D&D what it is?" since the announcement of 4E as various information has been released including some major rule and setting changes. I've found it a difficult thing to pin down. I think it'll just be a matter of playing a few sessions and...

That's a fair point on it's own merit, although I'd expect a level 30 wizard has more interesting options than playing losing odds at putting level 30 monsters to sleep. It still has nothing to do with 3.5E, though. Regardless of how the 3.5E sleep spell works the 4E sleep spell still has the...

From memory a regular ogre in 3.5E is 4HD so a single ogre would still have a good chance of falling asleep unless there were also lower HD creatures in the AoE. In any case trying to set up an example where the spell in the previous edition is intended to have a 0% chance of affecting a target...

There is a lot of good design in computer games. If WotC designers are inspired by some examples of good design and incorporate them into 4E that's not a bad thing. It obviously may not result in a game to the liking of all existing D&D players but I don't think likening aspects of 4E design to...

Precisely. Which does make the name of the spell a little counterintuitive as there is - as yet unknown modifiers notwithstanding - a less than 50% chance that anyone will actually fall asleep as a result of being in the area of effect of a sleep spell. Taking Kobold Skirmishers, for example...

If the way I've described it working above is correct it could be more deadly than that depending on the level of shared knowledge at the table. * Strikers delay. * Wizard casts sleep. * Strikers move to be able to strike those who were hit by the spell as those are the ones who are at risk of...

My understanding is... The Wizard attempts to hit each target's Will defense in the area of effect. Those that are missed are slowed (save ends). Those that are hit are slowed (save ends), but if they fail their first save they then fall unconscious (save ends). Saves are at the end of the...

Seems pretty straightforward.

The OGL will not carry over to 4E. Instead WotC will have the Game System License. The GSL hasn't been made public yet so it's not yet known what the publishing opportunities for 4E will be, but WotC have indicated it will not be an open source style license in the way that the OGL is.