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This seems contrary to the design philosophy underlying the rest of the game.

The scan of the Tiefling page shows that they get +2 INT and CHA. So, why are they listed as good rogues, but not good wizards? Anybody?

So, for example, a Close Burst 1 would be a 2x2 effect placed adjacent to the user?

Huh... Can anyone get a confirmation on what the close/burst/blast stuff on the Dragon and others means? I want to be able to work it's breath weapon if I'm going to do this.

And if I'm reading the math right on the new essay-thingy on AICN, the amount of XP you need to gain between levels is *far* more stable.

I could have sworn this was already covered. If you go down, you start making saves every round. On a 1-9, you get worse, on a 10-19, you don't get worse. On a 20, you pop back up with 1/4 HP (I'm guessing this burns a healing surge, but who knows?) If you get worse three times (and not...

You guys remember a few updates back, when they had the following problem: The fighter had a power that let him pick a bad guy, and if that bad guy attacked anyone else the fighter got an opportunity attack + The paladin could pick a guy to get -5 to all attacks that weren't against the paladin...

I really prefer the green dragon cover. Actually, I also really prefer the minis boxed-set cover, if it comes to that. Really, the whole art-style of 4E seems to be moving farther and farther away from my tastes. I, too, prefer Otus and Elmore. A redone, cleaned-up, modern version of one of...

What does MAD stand for?

If I may be so bold as to offer a personal opinion: The Book of Madness and the Libris Mortis were both about twice as awesome as the Draconomicon, and in fewer pages. I for one am fairly certain that all that needs to be said about the dragons could be fit into one book of this size, or two...

I wonder what the pagecount on that is. It'd have to be a hell of a book to justify 40 USD, especially being narrower than the first Draconomicon. Maybe it has a lot of new stuff in it, spells, rituals, powers, feats, epic destinies, maybe a new class, a number of prebuilt encounters, maybe a...

I don't see any reason why not. There actually used to be a set of rules in one of the Greyhawk books for starting out at Lvl. 0, which was similar but even harsher than what you're talking about. It sounds pretty sweet. I'd give it a shot.

Well, don't get too crazy. They did that in C&C and it was terrible.

Huh....hold on a second, though. We don't have any idea what encumbrance is going to look like in 4E. I sort of suspect that they might have got rid of the (delightfully simulationist, to me) systems used in the past. That is, I would be very unsurprised if counting up how many pounds or...

Don't forget Carrying Capacity under Strength. People like to ignore it, but being unable to haul your basic EQ can actually be kind of inconvenient. I have had much success throwing Ray of Enfeeblement at NPCs and calling for an encumbrance audit. "That plate mail isn't so great now, is it...

I'm hoping it's a feat chain, myself. Having some supplementary powers as well would be cool, though.

I myself have always thought it was an unfortunate neologism, but I suppose it can't be helped.

Oh, I have no doubt that my 4E would be a complete commercial failure. But, let me go ahead and throw a few things out there. It'd look a lot like BECMI or Rules Cyclopedia, but cleaned up. Attack Bonus instead of Thac0, high level spell damage turned down (no more d6/level, that's just too...

I'm still fuzzy on castling myself.

You may be on to something, there.