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Fourth Edition has the same resemblance to OD&D that a Ford Focus has to a Model T.

They typeset and edit a draft. When the designers make changes, the typesetters and editors just have to redo a page or two. There are limits on how much the designers can modify, but nothing is fixed in stone.

Why do they bother picking questions just so they can say "We're not going to answer that question"?

Saying that D&D shouldn't borrow ideas from World of Warcraft is the same as saying that D&D shouldn't incorporate any new ideas in game design. Every game borrows mechanics previous games, often in a chain stretching back all the way to OD&D, but they are refined and improved with every...

Consider this: In almost any TV show featuring a hero fighting against evil enemies, the major threats of the first season inevitably become goons to be fought in hordes two or three seasons later. However, there are always new, bigger threats, so the heroes always have about the same amount of...

The way it's worded, you can take two shifts (5' steps) in one turn if you don't do anything else.

Fixed.

The fighter can kick the door in, the mage can blast it down with a spell, and the rogue can pick the lock. Anyone gets it open, but only the rogue can close it afterwards.

And the result involves a moose, the demon Baphomet, and a Kuiper Belt object.

In fact, there's the kernel of an adventure here. "A dragon has kidnapped a master trapmaker to make defenses for its lair!"

I'm a big anime fan myself, and I'm happy about the changes I've seen, but I don't really like the fact that they're labeled "anime". The elements that are being added (fast-paced fights with lots of movement, lots of combat maneuvers, over-the-top powers, little or no resting time) are...

Personally, I did a double take every time they used "god" to refer to one of the female deities in that article. "Wait, Seh-whatsit is a he? No, it says she earlier..." I'm not normally picky about gender-specific nouns (female actor is fine), but for some reason "god" is one I just can't use...

The Elves article in Dragon looks like it gives the ability modifiers for the three elven races in oblique form. Elves' modifiers are confirmed, of course, but I include them for comparison. Elves: Dex, Wis. "As a race, elves are fleet of foot and agile. Though they are by no means stupid, they...

I say we take off and nuke the entire setting from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

"Good artists borrow, great artists steal."

I think you've actually said the reason they're called "Leader" right there. The Leader is the guy whose class abilities let him tell the other characters "Okay, fighter, move behind that Yuan-Ti so I can use my class ability that gives you an extra attack on an enemy you're flanking." In...

My money is on common NPC types (farmer, bandit, conjurer, etc.) being statted up as monsters in the MM, plus a section in the DMG on how to build an NPC with the PC rules. We know that non-PC races such as orc are statted up for specific roles, so I'll be very surprised if they don't do the...

Just one: WotC has stated repeatedly that monster stats are not calculated the same way as PC stats, so analyzing the Spined Devil stat card won't tell us anything certain about PCs. In particular, I think the devil's attack bonus, damage, and defense numbers were just picked out of thin air (or...

I don't think he would say "save" when he meant "attack". That, and the spined devil stats, make it clear that saves still exist as a mechanic, and are seperate from defenses. I doubt players will have seperate save scores; either poison saves are somehow based on fort defenses, or they're based...

My pet peeve related to weapons is the kama. It does the same damage as the sickle, with the same threat range. The picture for the kama in the PHB shows an object that would have been called a sickle in Europe. Japanese "kama" means, literally, sickle. So why are there two different weapons...