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You know, I'm very excited about a lot of these changes. One thing I've noticed, after a bit of thought, is that I like a lot of them better for their synergy and probably wouldn't have liked them nearly so well if taken one at a time out of context. One thing I might try as a house rule (after...

Maybe the Mark will require an attack against a target's Will, but I don't think it's really necessary. The Mark isn't forcing the target to take any sort of action, it's merely a way to express that the Marked creature is aware that it's vulnerable to the threatening Defender in some way. It...

Haha, you made me laugh so hard I spilled my coffee! I can so picture that situation.

To those who are questioning the ability of Marks to overwrite each other, this is how I'm going to handle it: The Marked creature can only focus his worry on one guy at a time. As his Mark is overwritten, he's just perceiving other players as more dangerous and then reassessing the situation...

Ack! WotC ninja attacks while I'm composing my post and I miss it. Of course, it renders my entire in depth post meaningless, now. For that, if for nothing else, I will no longer be buying 4E. On a side note, it looks like they actually considered some of the concerns brought up. It's almost...

Yep. And the Paladin probably wouldn't be as effective as, say, a caster putting a damager-per-round spell on the monster and stepping back into that same hallway and waiting for it to die. Wait a minute. A Ranger could sit up high in a tree in an open field and shoot arrows at the monster...

$100 each, easy, or roughly half my "going out" money for the month.

DnD has always suffered from rules that make no sense when put into real world terms. Most of these we've dealt with so long that even our flimsy descriptions and justifications seem to make sense. We've forgiven them over the years because they are useful. So, it isn't the end of the world to...

Marking. The new out of combat Intimidate. :p

Okay, I like the fact that a Defender has something in his arsenal to encourage enemies to attack him. They had to do this somehow and I wondered what they would do, but this seems as though it will work well, from a gameplay point of view, without being overbearing (it doesn't force an attack)...

That's good. Anything that saves time is appreciated. Don't get me wrong, I like to stat up NPCs and Monsters myself, too, but I really don't want to HAVE to. If I don't have time, I want to have options. I can do the stats myself the next three day weekend. ;)

Well, personally, I hope they include some serious material in the book detailing ready made dragons, maybe some lairs, and some decent fluff and other tidbits that can be easily dropped into a game. Yes, I know a lot of people hate it when they do that, but those sorts of things are what I...

It's 6 total skills. 2 chosen for you, and 4 more from the list. I think you have to look at it pretty hard and try and force yourself to see it meaning anything else. If it does mean what you think it means--10 skills total--then it is very, very badly worded. No one in my group came away with...

So, shuriken count as a "light blade" and you can get a Rapier with a feat. Cool. That's good, at least. To tell the truth, I'd like to be a knife fighting rogue. It wasn't something that was that effective before, but it might be now. Well, more so. the 1d4 damage will just be a small part of...

Just to add another option out there (because I'm bored and why not), what if the Superior Weapons category in that picture isn't really a category of weapons at all? What if it is merely a GRAPHICAL category to represent weapons made out of strange material? Or magical weapons who glitter (I...

The graphics are not up to par at all, but I wouldn't be using the program for its graphics anyway. And those can be improved in the future. They need to make the thing work right. If it can be used to simulate a table top game easily, and has some good robust features like a quality character...

That's the same breakdown I see happening. 3 times hit dice for 1st level characters, then an above average result (5 from a d6 for the Rogue) for the hit points received each level.

I wasn't too worried over the names and am even less so seeing the samples they've released with the Rogue preview. I expect that the crazy off-the-wall names were there just because they were evocative and easy for the developers to remember the ability as they were designing things. Once...

They might be going for something more simple, such as: dagger: 1d4* shortsword: 1d6* *Choose a weapon that can fit one of these categories, ensuring that it is appropriate for your campaign and/or character concept. That weapon will then deal damage equal to either the dagger or shortsword...

I don't know. I think they're making a big mistake changing Risk's movement. You aren't limited to attacking countries touching your own anymore, but can attack any other country on the board at once? Whatever. I can see how it would speed play but it isn't very good for verisimilitude. Unless...