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You've still a few months of pre-order window to get more information about 4E. Personally I would wait until after 4E is out and when your group gets around to switching buy all your starting 4E books in one big order from Amazon. This reduces shipping cost per book as well as allowing you to...

I started gaming in 1988 and have run and/or played campaigns under BECMI, 1E, 2E, 3/3.5E, and Rules Cyclopedia with the individual campaigns spanning anywhere from 6 months to 4 years. At this point I'm undecided on 4E, primarily because I'm not sure if it's going to look or feel like D&D. As...

If the rules are to the liking of myself and the others I play with then I may switch. To be honest, though, I felt 3E went about as far as it could go while still calling itself D&D. 4E really seems like an altogether new game that is calling itself D&D 4E. It may end up being a great game but...

Mixing old school with 4E to catch us old school gamers off guard. A cunning trap. ;) I'm in with those wanting to know if the rogue did this under core rules or if it was done using the source book rules being tested.

I didn't suggest that it makes any sense to do that. I was responding to a point that implied simply because the majority of responders to a survey were in favour of a certain course of action that it couldn't be called a foolish course of action. Those who aren't in a position to receive...

Why does it matter what the survey says? I've no intention of insulting people who have faith enough in the 4E designers to have decided they're on board before the product is even finished, but doesn't it make some sense not to commit yourself to purchasing a product when you've not been able...

Hamburglar but no Hamfister?

While this does sound promising I'm not sure it implies the kind of game we currently think of as a no magic game when taking into account the hints of pseudo-magical abilities typically non-magical classes are receiving in 4E. I'll wait for the crunch before calling it either way.

Some tweaks to your tweaks based on my own version of 4E death and dying I've been working on for 3E (I like the potential for heroic recoveries but find the system as presented by WotC so far somewhat erratic). On a 1-9 the character takes damage equal to half his level rounded up. On a 20...

You need a spellplague.

From what WotC have said it seems like they're embracing electronic books with 4E. I think that's a really positive direction for them to take. They could more easily publish things that would not be economically feasible to do in print and sell them as cheap electronic books, perhaps even...

Granted I haven't been following all the podcasts and blogs and so on so I'm prepared to be corrected on this, but isn't most of the content Scott Rouse is referring to focused more on selling 4E rather than being actual content that might have been expected in the D&D magazines? Admittedly...

Or as players try to sift through all the material to find the "best" options for them. I have one player in my game who approaches each new level with a sense of dread as option paralysis sets in. In future campaigns, whether we're playing 3E, 4E, or something else altogether, I'll be defining...

You've never tried plucking out an eyelash, wrapping it in a hastily chewed stick of Wrigley's and willing reality to make you disappear?

One of my main rules running games in 1E and 2E was that if I wanted something random and didn't know what the chance of it should be just make it 50% and roll. Nobody knows different and the game doesn't miss a beat. For a while after starting with 3E I had the impression that I had to have...

Best of luck on your mission. If you are captured or killed we will, of course, completely disavow you.

For the most part I've been doing the same so far, keeping an eye on developments as information is released but not getting too invested until more solid information is available. Apparently we'll be getting a crunchy look in with D&D Experience at the end of this month. If that turns out to be...

Some good points, and it's possibly something that shouldn't be surprising for us. If we take movies and look back over time we can see standards on how much is too much regarding sex and violence became more and more unrestrained as time went by. I guess with each new loosening of the...

If that's what you're getting from my posts I'd ask you to reread them. I guess I'll agree to disagree with you and leave it at that as I'm done with this topic.

Thanks for the quote from Ari, although it does seem to imply that there are indeed points they might have critiqued but kept themselves on topic with the aspects they felt positively about. In any case I am with you on being over the topic. I was not personally bothered by it to begin with and...