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No, I was saying that individual DM might be making house rules for his game. His personal game, with playtesters who have been playing the rules for a while. It might be something he's thinking about doing himself. Or, maybe it is an official playtest option. I don't know, just that it didn't...

I don't know. The article doesn't make it clear that the potion thing is a proposed 4E rule. It seems almost like a proposed house rule for his leader-less group. I'm sure we'll find out eventually, but it seemed more like something he was considering for the group and not so much something that...

I pre-order from them all the time (I've pre-ordered the 4E gift set too) and, yes, that's a true statement. You won't be charged for the purchase until the shipping date arrives. Just make sure you have the funds available by that date or a day or two before (so, around June 3rd or so) and...

Started with Basic (red box -- that thing got around), 1E, ADnD, 2E, 3E, and stopped BEFORE 3.5 (the release of which pissed off my players and, since we already didn't care for a lot of 3E, especially at higher level, didn't seem worth the cost to upgrade to). We stopped playing DnD when 3.5...

Hopefully there just won't be a "ultimate" class/race combo. Bringing ROLES to the forefront of the game, instead of an assumption made behind the scenes, I think it will encourage and nudge characters to be optimized for their ROLES as opposed to being just optimized for everything. If I had...

You, sir, have good taste. ;)

I might have to also bring back Dune'Jon, my old 1E character. He'd be a desert/wasteland Ranger who had taken one too many blows to the head--a fact which he is very proud of--resulting in him often talking to himself (he's convinced the animals are all talking about him ... especially these...

So, after pondering deep thoughts the last few months, does anyone know what Class they want to play? I know that I, since I'm usually the DM for most of our games, usually give it a lot of thought. It's not often I get to play but the other, part time, DM of our group is going to be running 4E...

I'm going to use a young black dragon as my first solo monster because .... doesn't everybody? Nah, I have the mini though and want to use it, heh. It will be one of my few "minis on the table" encounters, other than the very traditional Marching Order.

Just so you know, Khur is Chris Sims, a designer for WotC. He actually does know what 4E characters are like, which makes his posts very informative.

I've been pondering making the neck slot items into Runes, as it fits with my setting. They can be worn like a broach. Each rune could be recognized and certain ones "belong" to different magical families. It might serve as an informal badge that lets me polarize my warring magical families...

Cover should be worthwhile. -2 is too small by far, unless there's more too it and it's variable. +5 would make me very, very happy.

Haha, that would have never worked with the group I play with. I remember doing a section of Undermountain (I got to play) and we had two empty rooms in a row and a player said "yeah, yeah, that's all nice, but we just keep going, room after room, until we find something interesting. Any small...

I agree with Lizard here, at least in part. I like giving the players a bit of time to explore their connections to the rest of the campaign world, outside of encounters, because I like the level of verisimilitude that is added. I don't think I do it as much as he does, maybe ten minutes here...

They're not going to make classless DnD. They're going to use their base mechanic and modular system--with it's unified character progression--and set out the character classes and other elements which they feel embody DnD and its heroic fantasy style of play. What's nice, though, is that the...

Mearls can write 'em, since this is all his fault anyway. ;)

You're right. A 4E rogue would probably serve perfectly. It's just not easy to snap out of "But, I need a fighter to fight". Old habits. :)

I'm thinking along the same lines. If most of your numbers are on a unified progression than, as the character gains levels and chooses abilities, allowing him to choose abilities available only to other classes won't necessarily be unbalancing. It will just blur the Roles and Classes as set...

He probably can't say at this point. :) He did say that many of the elements of character progression are unified. That right there is huge. If true, it shouldn't be very difficult to see what was done and "roll things back" as he put it. They're just not going to be going into any such thing...

Thanks, that clarifies things. So, would you say that, because so many elements of character progression are unified, tinkering as you suggested would be more intuitive than, say, previous editions? In your opinion (not asking for concrete)?