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Grease will just make wagons move easier now. Might provide a bonus to opening stuck dungeon doors as well.

If I had to guess, I think the designers are reducing the concept of an L5 being 5x as powerful as a L1. Instead, a L5 is only 2x more powerful or something, and the power scale is very design driven. I want your DM.

Don't care. I guess it's up to WotC what they think is core. They probably want to sell the 4e PHB to Eberron players. For my non-Eberron campaigns, it would take some hefty convincing to allow a PC to choose a warforged character. I just hope that "core" adventure material for 4e doesn't...

There, fixed it for you.

In the "Killing Time Before 4e Comes Out" thread, it was even suggested to try something other than DnD. We just wanted some examples of other games to try instead of just being bashed for being hopeless DnD fanbois.

I'm curious as well.

I'm a They person myself, but it's not exactly standard grammar. I'm partial to You. "If a fighter strikes a foe, their weapon deals damage..." - doesn't seem right "As a fighter, if you strike a foe, your weapon deals damage..." - clunky I found the solid use of "she" in 3e to be a little...

Kidding aside, I wonder what this jarring change is... Removes a layer of complexity. Hmm.

Just like with Rules Compendium, looks like I'll be waiting to read reviews to find out exactly what's in them before I buy.

Well that's what happens when something is excitedly announced and no more information is given. The way they were slapping new 4e style art up all over the place (which I haven't acquired the taste for yet - that troll head is way too big), and saying so many things without saying anything at...

I keep hearing about this 1 appropriate foe per PC in an encounter. As much variety as that allows, I hope 4e provides clear guidelines on how to build encounters with fewer or more creatures than that. Fighting similarly sized groups of creatures all the time will get old, and would be a...

1st Might as well try it out from the start. It's the only way to get a real feel for what's right or wrong with the game at each level.

The trouble with halving XP gain is characters end up treasure heavy, unless you cut that in half too. Which makes for boring looting and underequipped NPC's. There were definitely times during the 3.x campaign I ran that levelling seemed to be happening a bit too fast, though.

I see no problem with random hit points. It's the player's risk if they want to go random. I houserule that d4's can re-roll 1's and anything larger can re-roll 1's and 2's (I might change that for d6ers). In any case, all that does is raise the averages, and I could do the same for monsters...

Pursuit and evasion should certainly be options in 4e. I was somewhat bothered by the straight line run rule in 3e as well.

I guess we won't know until next year if they are going to forcibly ding us with needing a DnDI sub to get access to everything we need. If the enhancements added to DnDI also appear in the SRD, I'm fine with that. That's no different than downloading an errata document. No biggie there...

Hmm, I'd wait for the MM to be available, then group them into one order to get the free shipping - but then I wouldn't get them until June :(

I mostly ignore encumberance unless it's something ridiculously bulky. So I went "simpler".

Need more input. Of course, we won't get a real taste until we fork out $20 for the Races and Classes preview in December. But I'll burn in the infernal region before I plunk down $40 for SWSE just to have a good look at what 4e might be.

I wonder if there will be heal over time abilities that reduce the damage you take rather than just heal you at a specific time. Sometimes you have the means to heal someone, but you just can't get to them before the next set of attacks finish them off. If it's hard to track, 4e likely won't...