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Why not mix it up a bit? I can see the PHB2 introducing a power source or two (nature and psionic?), and a few classes that are martial, arcane or divine. Then add more abilities, talent trees, spells and stuff for the existing classes. A little something for everyone, so more people buy the...

! I get it now! The 4e combat design assumes that the PC party faces off against a near equal party of opponents, not against one big bad. So, to make dragons balanced they treat them almost as if they were multiple enemies, using multiple actions per turn and filling a number of roles at...

Insta-kill will be as easy as always! DM: "Rocks fall, everyone dies"

Alright, let me see if I can have some fun with this idea. First off, we really aren't using charges anymore, it's more like power levels that randomly drop off. So lets call it that, and label the power levels as such: d20: Full power d12: High power d10: Low power d8: Minimal power Rolling...

Possibly, but the bug I caught is more along the lines of just being a silly bastage. :p I find the entire premise of the thread silly, to be honest - I mean, "more D&D"? The game will be what it always was: what you make of it. And it will probably be just a bit better at it than it was...

I don't think it is more accurately D&Dish, but I do think it will be more thickly D&Dish; heartier, creamier and with more chunky bits per serving. ...And now I'm hungry. :)

I think it has less to do with how many books are owned, as how much money you spent on them and how much money you have left to spend now. :) Myself, I've only owned the 2e players handbook (which has since met an unknown fate), the 2e priests splatbook (buried in storage someplace), and the...

The mechanic sounds cool, but is likely not needed. Or if you prefer, it's funnecessary. ;)

I'm not sure if that means they are any more related to normal fey than Eladrin or Elves, depends how they are using the term now. But it does suggest they interact with other kinds of fey in general, so I guess Drow live in a feywild side of the underdark?

That's all well and good, but as I brought up in an earlier thread: if you really want to put a fear of falling in the hearts of PCs, have their equipment take damage as well. I know a number of players who find death less inconvenient than shattering all their potions, snapping their great axe...

Heh don't worry, I get what you're saying. :) And really, just because a character has int 6 doesn't mean he can't figure out simple puzzles, or even hit upon the answers to tougher ones. Just that he is less likely to figure it out easily. Sorry about that, I messed up my intended meaning a...

On one hand, I understand that in order to be fun for the player in-game puzzles and other challenges have to apply at a metagame level. Reducing everything to simple skillchecks leaves the result in the players hands but not the challenge or the fun. On the other hand, while the player should...

As much as I don't like the PrC glut of 3e, I don't think it needs to be thrown away entirely. It depends on just how far talent trees and other class abilities go, if they're flexible enough you may not need any but new talent trees for whatever you want to introduce. But if theres a...

With all the material they have to work with, they could make lots of books. And they would probably be pretty good. And they would sell. So I see it as an eventuality, but not for a long while yet. Wait a few years for them to get 4e core established, do a few splatbooks, and come out with the...

Well, it's not an undeserved definition, but there's far more to the genre than that, if you can even call anime a genre. The facial proportions are a major thing, although the degree of it varies widely. You have the typically seen cartoonish style of things like dragonball or inuyasha, the...

Sorry, but all I see for influence is american comic books. :\

A few other possibilities for cursed weapons: -Made only to work for the original wielder(s): Either out of pure spite or some strategy, it is meant to penalize if you try to kill them and take their stuff. Like an army that equips their advanced squads with magical weapons, that if captured by...

So the elves killed the gnomes and took their... size? Or maybe halflings are being recast as part of the eladrin/elven family... I actually wouldn't mind that, but I can already hear the rumbling of irate grognards just from thinking about it. ;)

I knew about the great wheel forever it seems, but didn't realize it was actually supposed to effect the setting at all. It just seemed like an abstraction for showing how inner planes were related and that the outer planes were outside of that. Having to shoehorn gods into Valhalla or whatnot...

Of course I'm eager for anything new, but I have no complaints about how much info we have now. They're still playtesting, working out whatever bugs there may be, big or small. No matter how certain they think they are about this idea or that mechanic, it could very well be turned over the next...