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One of the Ranger paragon paths also inflicts automatic damage to every adjacent enemy at the end of each of their turns, with no dice roll involved. I seem to recall Wall of Fire being in the Paragon tier as well, so I will, in adherence to my "assume 4e designers are not monkeys until proven...

Your friend is a cheater. ;) I've seen a professional book-scanning tool that can scan a book without damaging it and, in fact, will flip the pages on its own. Sells for about 16 grand, sure, but that thing is sweet. But yeah, I was talking about a standard flatbed scanner.

Depending on how enthusiastic people are to buy and scan their books, anywhere from a few days to a few months if there aren't official PDF copies released, to less than an hour if there are. I'm expecting a lot of enthusiasm for 4e's corebooks, though, since it's a new release. Without getting...

You're entirely right! Unfortunately you also missed the point by a mile. You can't build an Akashic in core 3.5e D&D, that's why the Akashic class was printed at all. Saying you can convert any fantasy character concept to 4e D&D is patently silly, because the provided classes don't cover...

In my online games, where we assumedly have the books or PDFs *right at hand*, we still tend to type up and link the full text of anything we're using from sources not available on d20SRD from our character sheets, because it saves time. Copied pages with Stuff You Have is a great resource...

I don't agree with Occam, actually. I think 4e made powers more boring by canning a lot of D&D's interesting (read as: broken, but don't tell me shapeshifting doesn't appeal to people) powers or reducing them to very simple and uninteresting forms, but I don't think that making everything a neat...

From everything I've noticed, 4e has a lot more 6+ round fights than 3e. While some people certainly prefer this to the rocket-launcher tag of 3e, and understandably so, it means that many fights are knock-down, drag-out battles. Certainly a drawn-out 3e fight would likely be repetitive...

Um, I really hope you just didn't think this post through. Fighters already have somatic and focus components by virtue of swinging a sword around. I imagine verbal components would be more a Warlord thing with their shouts of encouragement and all.

Uh, sure, if you're willing to say like 3/4 of the things that used to be player options and are definitely present on canonical people in FR are NPC-only. Like being a Red Wizard of Thay, given that spell schools no longer exist in 4e and the majority of them seem to not even exist as things...

Agree with Cadfan. I'd probably make it a standard action to attack with both, with a penalty to the off-hand attack. Of course, without any dual-wielding powers in what you're playing with right now, it's not gonna matter.

I will note, Kzach, that the 3e power cards are 3rd-party and fanmade only. Anyway, as long as they stay away from things that practically require players to use cards (i.e. Crusader, the only base class I've ever banned on sight) or... I don't know, all of them get stoned and decide 5th Edition...

First of all, you need to be a good reader, and read the books while awake and with an open mind, with emphasis on the Player's Handbook and whichever parts of the DMG turn out to be more than just general DMing advice. Then write up an adventure, actually taking pen to paper (or fingers to...

Anyone notice this? With no actual power description or rules, I'm going to assume that this line was just the victim of some mighty bad article editing. In any case... meh. Non-magical magic healer gets warhate.

While there is an official answer already posted, currently extant virtual tabletops like OpenRPG and MapTool, which provide the exact same sort of functionality the 4e game table will provide, do not need to be distributed under any license from WotC. "Making battle maps that are divided into...

That's why no one plays Ragnarok Online, right? I have to pitch in and say that WoW does not have bad gameplay, though, but bad gameplay on its own certainly doesn't seem to be enough to sink an MMO.

Retraining a feat at every level is fine by me, because it lets people need to plan ahead less when they're playing their characters in D&D. But that's about all I want them to add along those lines, since the problem with applying the respeccing in some MMORPGs to P&P play is that, broadly...

Let's say it was another Fallen Empires - a generally underpowered set that was roundly disliked by most players - or another Legends - a set with greivous printing errors that severely messed up the distribution of cards by booster box. Let's also say you were in the loop enough about Magic to...

Because they were losers. I'm not going to fault the OGL for causing people to make trash-quality d20 books even though it wouldn't have been possible without it - it was Mark MacKinnon's choice to print a crappy half-conversion of his system to d20, and Chaosium's choice to print a crappy...

I'm pretty sure that Grey Elves don't exist in the Realms. I mean, maybe a very few do, holdovers from 2e, where you could travel between Greyhawk and the Realms, but that's it. Personally, I'm fine with crunching most of those Elves down to Elves and Eladrin, though I think Aquatic Elves...

I was not saying WotC's rules quality was bad, it was just not amazing. I was more refuting the idea that there was a massive quality gap between the game rules produced by WotC and the game rules produced by the better third parties. (Though I'd take you up on Tome of Magic - Truenamer was an...