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I'd like to second this request. Is it in the DMG? I haven't read everything yet, so I may just be missing it. EDIT: Thanks!

I can't wait to play a gnome. All the rules are there in the MM. All you're missing is racial feats, which are by no means a must-have. (I would suspect that around half of 10th level characters will have picked up a racial feat somewhere along the way.) In general, you could almost say that...

Awesome pics! I love 'em all, though this one especially strikes my nostalgic fancy.

WTF? This poll is wack. The only pro-4e option on the poll is "I was going to go to the new edition no matter what." How about just an option for non-zombies? "Since I like what I've seen, I'll be playing 4e."

I see Taurens as Medium. If you consider humans to be as big as Medium gets, I understand why you'd want to make them bigger. But I think it's fair to think of humans as medium-Medium and then Taurens as large-Medium. The look of WoW is very "big and bulky," but I don't think Taurens take up...

I'm running currently running two PBP campaigns (here and here) in a Points of Light setting. In fact, I'm running them both in what could be called the "default" Points of Light setting, if such a thing really existed. That means I'm using place names (like Crestfall, Winterhaven, Bael Turath...

I've written a couple of Dragon articles, and I would be totally up for contributing to some sort of community "points of light" setting as a free thing or for EN Publishing. I think the trick for something like this would be creating interesting little areas without adding a ton of backstory...

Ah yes, "the most common usage." I don't know about you, but I talk about sex a lot more often than I talk about neurons. Perhaps that makes me an unusual nerd...

Can we at least do this for the races and classes, so you could mix and match the pregens a little? I've seen one case of an elf rogue, but we have those from DDI. Has anyone backward-engineered the stat bonuses for each class by looking at what the stats would have to be with point buy? With...

Thanks for the fun write-up. I apparently played a couple games of Classic with my dad and older brother when I was in gradeschool, but I have no conscious memory of it. I didn't play again until AD&D, which I read more than played. Reading this makes me want to give OD&D a try again sometime.

Very interesting post, but the most interesting to me is the way you played it online. I would have never thought to use Excel for battlemaps!

R&C did not confirm any human crunch, but I think you've got it figured out. There's no way human perseverence is an automatic bonus feat for humans, right? That doesn't seem to be the way racial features are set up in 4e.

How come there's no credit for the art? Were those pieces really done just for this article? If so, I'm impressed.

Annoying about the reduced content, but that 4e Dragon issue sounds nice!

I was going to say that! But I still think 4e halflings are meh. I've actually tried using them in a campaign I just started, and they're pretty darn boring. The fact that they all look the same (with braided hair) is going to make their art so unappealing that no one will want to play one.

I spent years playing D&D and SWRPG before I noticed the "1,2,1,2,1" diagonal movement rule. I consider anything but "one square of movement is one square in any direction" to be totally counterintuitive. And yes, I realize that diagonals are longer. It doesn't offend my intellect at all. It's...

Always great to hear more positive things about 4e! Even when they're super-vague. Not that it's a big surprise. I think the number of people who end up thinking 3e is better than 4e will ultimately be similar to the number who think 2e is better than 3e. WotC is a smart company, and when they...

Wow, I had no idea Al-Qadim was a worthwhile setting. I guess the problem with 2e's various campaign worlds isn't that they weren't awesome, but that they fragmented gamers. Toward the end of 3e, we saw a new way to deal with that: use the settings for big adventures. But what if they took that...

You're in luck! Not even counting DDI, you can expect new published crunch in July: Emphasis mine.

Hit points as "will to live" or "main character-ness" get weird in corner cases like poison, but they work just fine 95% of the time. I really enjoyed the wound point/vitality point system in Star Wars, which balanced survivability with the fact that actually getting hit once with almost any...