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I get the feeling that for a role playing game the definition of the "sweet spot" needs to be widened some. Having a 70% chance to hit with attacks and spells isn't the whole story, the targets offensive ability, numbers, strategies, as well as chance of success or failure and the like are just...

Now I want to stat up a Vate class when the 4e druid comes out. :) I looked up the wiki entry on it, it didn't say anything about them being female specific. Sounds perfect for a healing orientated druid though. They used both medicine and mystical healing, and they even created the worlds...

I'm a bit more fond of the 3e version, but that's mostly because the classic hobbit doesn't interest me much as a PC race. Now, I'll admit halflings need a better shtick - mechanically and flavor wise - but in general a quick little roguish race is the kind I'd prefer to play. Not kender...

Pseudodragons should be an exception to this, they're almost fey as it is! I could see a few other varieties of dragon being unique to the plane, like song dragons perhaps...? I'm not familiar enough with them to be sure about that though.

As much as I'm getting tired of the phrase, I'm all for sorcerers killing warlocks and taking their stuff. ...That he got from War-Mart? :)

I don't think it's anymore complicated than talent trees that simply require you be 11th level or higher before starting on them. After all, it doesn't have to be more complicated than that, so why make it that way?

I could see them both having their power strongly tied to the feywild. As far as being folded together, no, but if they get a little bit of each others flavor that wouldn't be such a bad thing. So long as the druid has less overall than they do now.

Seconded. Also shadow dragons, song dragons, or really any other cool dragons that are outside of the chromatic or metallic lines. Hey now don't be hatin', I have SUCH fond memories of my Calzone Golem. :)

That right there is the main difficulty I've had when trying to houserule on this kind of thing. It works fine for someone who started early in his career but took a different path, but for someone just starting it makes little sense. The easiest way to go about this is to change the...

Ah, I didn't know much about the original source of the magic system, I just knew that they call it vancian, and that's the rationale behind it. How correct that is in the first place is a whole 'nother kettle of fish. :) I'm thinking I'll need to track down this stuff sometime and give it a read.

One angle that I like is that the fluff between 3e and 4e doesn't need to change much. Under the vancian system, the rationale was that your were just completing the spells you began casting earlier in the day. You can use the same kind of rationale now, except only a few big spells take all...

Well, for those who prefer other systems yes. But those who turn away from D&D and gaming in general because of one or two elements of it need to be paid attention to. No need to bend over backwards for them, but if an impediment to getting new players can be addressed all the better. Total...

Emerald Frost wouldn't seem nearly as bad if it weren't an obvious reference to the cold and acid damage they specialize in, which makes no sense together anyways. Maybe if the name refers to a place that was once a corrupted, green colored, poisoned sea, that was magically frozen to keep it's...

I see you reduced the duration of the dispel, but it's still a long time for a golem to be helpless. And the increase in acid damage is abusable as written, even 1 point of damage from a splash of acid would trigger a massive increase in damage. Taken together, a wizard could cast dispel magic...

Very nice! But I got the wrong idea when I first looked at your thread title, and now I want to make a tarot card based stat gen method. :p

Some quick thoughts on it: -DR should be bypassed by bludgeoning, since that's what displaces the most material. Slashing is nearly as bad as piercing against sand. -Cold spells shouldn't haste it, or do anything else. Water can haste it well enough (assuming it doesn't turn to a thick, silty...

How about if you only need to learn fireball once, and it is able to be a number of times cast per encounter, but you also get a lesser fireball at will, and a improved fireball per day. And each improves by one step at levels 11-20 and again 21-30. It's still just one spell, it scales with...

If that is the case, expect some new warlock variants from me within a couple days of the 4e release. If not sooner.

I just think they need to present more strong females in art and stories, that don't cater to any particular style or description. That also means they shouldn't go overboard and try to play up a constant feminist angle or something... but I'd like to see a female knight rescue a prince from a...

Seeing as how Warlock is now core, I'm really hoping it has more options besides the fiendish route. Just as how the paladin is no longer tied to only being lawful good, I'd like to see warlocks able to be bound to non-infernal powers. I would make them the thematic reverse of a cleric: instead...