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I started out running, man I want to say I was around ten or twelve, with this black-box boardgame looking thing I found in a Toys 'R Us. It only went up to fifth level, and it included a dungeon, where the PCs had been captured by Zanzer Tem. It was the awesomest thing I had ever seen. But...

Dude, if that's how you want XP to work, you just wrote your house rule. I'm serious, it looks entirely functional, run with it. Especially since, as mentioned, you don't have to spend XP for anything. As to wealth...Not sure. I might have to import an abstract overlay, like what I've heard...

This isn't a problem unless the player makes all reasonable efforts to get the item back and gets shut down for no reason. Dude knew he was in Yu Shan.

Oh, I'm not saying Lolth was easy pickings. But compare her to what she looks like in 3.x.

I'm still hoping they keep SAGA's condition track, and that turning pushes undead down it.

I don't necessarily have to agree that any of those are good, in some kind of "I would take this position in an advanced Ethics course" sense, to allow good-aligned characters to do them. As a GM, so long as the good-aligned PCs actions are unselfish and come from that PCs beliefs about what is...

I don't think the objection here, although we're phrasing it that way a lot, is that WotC has a positive duty to tell us everything we want to know. The real objection is that the stuff they are giving us is potentially disingenuous, and definitely calculated more to manipulate than to inform...

Interesting. I'll still only be buying the PHB out the gate, until I can make a decision about how well I like the game.

I agree with essentially everything in this post.

I'll be even more honest than this. I'll put it right out front that if you want to have an inter-party feud, the players involved should work out where it's going to go and what the limits are before-hand. I know this goes against what a lot of us have been taught, but I've seen it lead to...

I'd like Aberration to stay its own type, although I'd be totally fine with some of the things that are currently aberrations getting stripped out. Aberration should sort of mean 'completely alien and potentially lovecraftian horror.' Which I think is a valid 'slot' for monsters to fit into...

Really? How hardcore was it?

Seriously. Haven't they said layout on the PHB was almost ready? You don't do layout without a finalized text, to my understanding. Because you can't change it so much once layout has begun, god forbid finished. Someone please correct if I'm mistaken.

A number of people have complained that the blogs which followed the presentation, and continue to be posted, have followed a set of pre-programmed talking points without backing any of it up. I personally, with my suspicious nature and educational background [Psych degree, Law school], think...

No kidding. CAN YOU HEAR US WOTC?! IF YOU MAKE AN EXPANSION BOOK ABOUT THIS THAT DOESN'T SUCK, I WILL BUY IT! I mean that part about not sucking. None of this Heroes of Battle B.S. Sweet Fancy Moses that book pissed me off.

You should check out The Fantasy Trip. Grab some of the much-publicized house rules and it's relatively close to what you're describing, and excellent.

Gravity is an area effect attack.

Maybe neither the character's intentions or actions should have much to do with the alignment as written down on the sheet. Imagine, if you will, the great Powers of Law and Chaos, Good and Evil. They sit across from each other at the great gaming-table of the gods. They move their pawns...

I would like to see extensive but clearly optional rules to this effect. If the PCs are going to be off screwing around and/or travelling extensively, I usually just assign a flat cost. Usually 100 GP * Level per month. However, I would like to have some outright rules in case the PCs ever...

Incidentally, magic items are also a part of treasure hordes. So, if you can't purchase them, it's not like you'll never see them. You'll just have to go out and get them the old-fashioned way.