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There has been no shift in policy. Everything in the PHB, DMG, and MM has always had to have a place in the Realms. It's more jarring this time because the stuff in the PHB, DMG, and MM has changed a lot more than it did the last two times. Thayan Enclaves, thousands of dead assassins, and...

Thousands of murdered assassins would like to have a word with you. It hasn't been ret-conned out of existence. It's still the back-story. There is at least one functioning Time Portal in the world. Just because the 4E book will assume you don't have access to or knowledge of all this...

Wow! I feel so important now. ;) Anyways, as far as the Red Wizards are concerned, I think the 3E developments really neutered them as a villain group. The enclaves were an interesting concept, and they did a good job of explaining the ease with which one could buy and sell magic items in...

Off the top of my head and in no particular order: *Red Wizards are led by Zsass (sp? that lich guy). They're scarier and so is Thay. The enclave Red Wizards are unwelcome expatriates who can't return home. *They avoided ret-conning, instead writing story explanations for the changes, they...

Can I ghost ride my whip in 4E?

Roll them into related groupings and call those Professions. Deciphering script, forging documents and producing literature could all be activities one could perform with the Scribe profession for example.

Ritual isn't such a great term for farming or performing anyway. I really like the idea that those kinds of skills could work like rituals, though.

Mazda really does make nice cars. Even my friend's stripper 3 is a really fun and tossable little car. Hell, the only reason why I didn't think about buying a RX8 was my British sports car born aversion to any mention of ever having to top off oil.

I, too, am a major car buff. Like my interest in RPGs, my interest in cars come from two sources. The first is my dad. He had a TR7 when I was a kid, and around the same time, he gave me a box of toy knights and handed me copies of LotR, Robin Hood, The Once and Future King, and Conan...

It also sounds like you already made the world, have all the stuff to run that world, and enjoy the system in place. There really is no reason for you to bother switching. I will say, though, that while 4E's metasetting has changed, I don't think it's changed as much as you seem to think...

Ahh, okay. You're upset with the fluff changes, but you said it your self, "the first round of 4E books," and as far as gnomes, LG pallies, and evil chromatic dragons are concerned, they don't seem to be as chucked to the side as you say. Aside from the planes and arguably, the druids, all of...

What, exactly, are you demanding? More Roleplaying? That all comes from you and your players. The system can't give you that. More Verisimilitude? D&D never had it. It just bandaged over the complete lack of any realism in an incredibly abstract system with a lot of overpowered magics...

D&D has never really modeled injuries with HP, or, to be more clear, D&D has never really modeled the effects of injuries with HP. If you've wanted a sword wound to the gut to have lasting effects, you needed to houserule it. Since all healing came from magic or extended rest in earlier...

I'm pretty much a 4E fanboy at this point, but I'm still really happy for this. Paizo is providing a home of sorts for disaffected 3E fans, many of whom are already huge Paizo fans, so this will probably work out fairly well for them. I'm pretty sure they're going to end up going over to 4E in...

Playing fantasy heroes and beating the crap out of monsters for sweet stuff?

I see your point of view, but I look at it more like a, "trust me, guys; I know I can do this" moment. It's not a matter of the character putting forth extra effort once a day, it's a matter of the player choosing, once a day, for his or her character to achieve above and beyond what he or she...

Yeah, I would. I tried a lot of different systems after becoming disillusioned with Second Edition, and I came back to D&D because I felt Third did what I wanted my rules to do better than any other system I tried. I was glad it was badged, "D&D," simply because I was glad to see that D&D, the...

All the various threads in our 3.5 campaign are coming together for the grand finale right now. I expect there's about another month or two before it ends. After that, we're playing a short Rebellion era SWSE campaign while I get everything prepped for our 4E FR campaign. I doubt, after this...

I won't disagree with that (though I might disagree about purpose), but the fact that game rules can mold and affect roleplaying doesn't change the fact that the existence of roleplaying is system independent. You don't need rules to roleplay, but they can help.

How can you even begin to make this argument when we live in a world where multi-volume fantasy epics regularly see the top of the New York Times' lists, and the Harry Potter series forced the creation of a whole new category? Fantasy didn't even have its own category when D&D came out. Sure...