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I've been contemplating these sorts of questions as well. Here are a few thoughts I've had. The relatively little things: Flatten Ability Scores: I mean two things by this. First, secondary stats could be less important. This would make more multiclassing options viable, instead of only those...

Some gamers that live in Woolwich (SE18) London are planning on starting up a D&D 4E game here in January 2013. Thus far all young professionals. Leaning towards Eberron. The host/prospective GM has a thread on the ukroleplayers site: http://www.ukroleplayers.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=14471

I would like to see something like the following for 2-weapon fighting: Requirement: You are wielding a weapon in your off-hand. Benefit: When attacking with advantage, if both of your rolls would hit you may add your off-hand weapon damage die to the damage dealt by the attack.

How about something like the following for two-weapon fighting: When attacking with advantage, if both attack rolls would hit you may add your off-hand weapon die to the damage dealt by your attack. (once per round?)

Why not take a page from the Class Compendium and rename the Monk the Mystic? Then you could have purely martial arts characters be fighters or fighter/rogues. And the mystic could come in three categories of builds: Mild- some iron skin and action movie mobility; Ozymandius catching a bullet...

I don't think one more magic character is all that valuable, especially not if the purpose of the core rules is to give you something flexible enough to play a wide range of fantasy campaigns with. I would much rather have a non-magical expert type character, someone that leans heavily on Int...

My wife and I just moved to London (Woolwich Arsenal) from the US. Looking for a gaming group. We'd love to find a weekly game, preferably on a weeknight. We play a lot of 4e but would be happy to try most other stuff. The group is more important than the game. We've also tried and liked: D&D...

Cue Spinal Tap jokes.

The two obvious options are: 1) You can cast in armor you're proficient in. This allows flexibility. The downside is that it's very easy for the counter-archetypal character to become the norm. That is legitimate cost to be concerned with; classic archetypes should be well supported. It's...

Someone else on these boards suggested expanding the advantage/disadvantage mechanic to damage, and making all damage rolls against heavy armor users have disadvantage. I like the kernel of that idea since it bypasses the problems of DR. It could also be helpful in damage type vs. armor type...

Siloing spells (and especially rituals) is an artifact of encounter-based design. If you need to know that any given fight will be balanced, you need to have some general sense of spells that are helpful in combat vs. out of combat, recognizing that creative combat uses of non-combat spells are...

No action poses* No anime No boob windows No dragonborn Get me a classic looking Elmore-style piece and I'll be happy. *action scenes are fine, just not 'pose for the camera' character portraits

Yes, it affects us. The prohibition is simply odd, and more counterproductive than it seems at first. The sort of person who is most likely to respect the agreement and not play online is exactly the sort of person most likely to put effort into giving quality feedback. So Wizards is filtering...

It would be great to have a non-magical "expert" class to cover characters that lean on Int, Wis, and/or Cha but don't cast spells.

I'm gonna go with the ability to use montages to accomplish laborious tasks in just a few minutes.

As I've played more and more 4th ed, I think the encounter power system suffers from this problem. Lots of per-encounter resources make fights feel like they have few consequences, and make lots of fights feel the same. It often feels like going down a checklist of encounter powers. That said...

Old: exploration. Dungeon crawling ≠ dungeon delving. New: caster/non-caster balance Borrowed: ability-skill mixing and matching (a la Cortex) so you can make a Strength-Intimidate check or an Intelligence-Climbing check depending how you do something Blew: the treadmill

Stances serve several important functions. 1) They allow "siloing" of bonuses. That is, if you're using stance x you're not using stance y, so we bypass stacking issues. This advantage is shared by powers. But relative to other powers, they have several other differentiating features. 2) They...

Multi-attack against multiple opponents is fine. Multi-attack against single opponents broke even the strict 4e math. Let it go the way of the dodo. Even TWF could be "if you miss with primary, swing with secondary." Caveat: for at-will options. X/encounter maneuvers to attack multiple times...

Javelin of fire does sound boring. Why not an iconic spell like acid arrow? If this is real, the only thing that has me more substantially worried is a thief turning invisible in the middle of combat at level 5. I put up with that stuff in Epic for 4e because Epic is magic sauce. I don't need...