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Iridescence Iris Island (for the blue mana)

This has been my list for a long time: avenger / favored soul (a spontaneous divine caster) barbarian bard cleric druid fighter monk paladin psion ranger rogue sorcerer surgeon (my homebrewed healer, Dr McCoy, ship's surgeon) swordmage warlord / marshal wizard Races: dromite...

One of the things that made me fall in love with 3rd edition was this fact that PCs and monsters worked by the same rules. The Dungeon Master's Guide gave me the rules I needed to stat out cities and countries, and all the NPCs within, and it all made sense. There was a working economy, in the...

I feel like 4th edition kind of relegated the dice to a bit of a background role. The d20 is still king, of course, but other dice only get picked up as needed by a power. I like it when dice symbolize things. I like it when a d12 comes out and you know you're dealing with a barbarian or a...

Ia ia Cthulhu fhtagn?

Well I guess WotC has a lot of work cut out for them if they're trying to create a game that can accommodate individualistic role-players together at the same table as team players. If I were them, I'd tend to make the rules lean toward favouring roles and teamwork, because that's D&D's...

I think "what is my job?" is a really good question to ask in a group-oriented game. "What sort of character do I want to be?" is kind of individualistic and narcissistic. I won't say individualism is bad or wrong per se. But it leads to players wanting to be werewolves and dhampires and other...

To those of you considering burning your 4E books: would you consider mailing them to me instead? I can give them a better home. PM me.

Infamy Indefensible Illidan (because they're finally going to admit defeat by Blizzard and join WoW)

I think roles are essentially a fact of life. A fact of our imaginary lives that we live while gaming. The fact is, a party with role distinctions is more effective. They work better as a team when everyone has a job, and when every job has a body in it. But sometimes adventuring parties...

Inferno

I don't want to come down on your example too hard, because I know you just sort of came up with it on the fly, and you're not claiming it as great game design. The point I want to make is: game design is hard. And some design puzzles don't have good, elegant answers. You can always put in a...

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What language are you speaking? Esperanto? I don't know of any anti-halfling bias on Monte's part. I've never heard him bash any race. Love it. Like it. Love it. Finally D&D will be a game for me. I have been thinking lately, "prostitute" is one archetype sadly unexplored in official D&D...

Inquisition Irrigation Iron Golem

I think it would be great if they called it Iuz or Ivid, but I don't think anyone at WotC knows what Greyhawk is.

Maybe you're forgetting, but Mike Mearls was heavily involved in 4E, which was not open. Obviously Mike wasn't able to convince the right people at WotC that 4E should have been open. I give him the benefit of the doubt that he believes in open gaming, not because he has some book on his shelf...

I'd say this is my #1 issue with regard to support for the new edition. Partly because of the principle of open gaming content, but also because I believe I will get a better game if it's open to input from 3rd party sources, in addition to WotC. I invested in 3E because I made my own...

5th edition doesn't have an official name, but they've been calling it something that starts with I. It's not even clear whether it will be called an "edition" although they are admitting that they're making changes on the scale of a new edition. For now, they're calling it an "iteration"...

Woo! Bring on codename Ixitxachitl!