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I'm baffled by people who think 4e is hugely influenced by anime and video games. What is that based on? Because dragonborn and tieflings look like they would be at home in a game like World of Warcraft? Well geez, dragon-men have been walking around in mainstream fantasy since Dragonlance, and...

It will be interesting to see the extent to which that's true. I understand that they're trying to leave it very open, so there will be plenty of "room" for homebrewed content, no metaplot, et cetera. But there's certainly setting information in the form of cultural descriptions and adventure...

It's quite possible that the "Worlds" in the title may just refer to the PoL setting and the various planes. But if nothing else, it would make sense for them to put a few pages (similar to the "Other Classes" or "Other Races" sections in R&C) on different campaign settings. If nothing else, I'm...

Awesome round-up! Since the first post of this thread renders my thread on the subject obsolete, let me add a few locations we know. "As kingdoms and empires grew and collapsed -- the human realm of Nerath, the dragonborn Arkhosia, the tiefling Bael Turath, and countless nations before them --...

Just to have a running count, here's a list based on all the monsters featured in Desert of Desolation. (I'm not including non-monsters like "Blood of Vol Fanatic.") Angel (Angel of Vengeance) Animated Object (Animated Statue) Astral Stalker (Astral Stalker) Demon (Bar-Lgura) Blade Spider...

It sounds to me like Forgotten Realms is actually poised for something of a comeback, as the "spellplague" reset button allows the setting to shed some of its cumbersome continuity while setting everything up to play smoothly with the new rules. I haven't played FR since 2e, but I'd consider...

After years of DMing in which I built absolutely everything from scratch, I've found that using published campaign settings and even published adventures can free me up to focus on making things fun for the players. I used to spend all my time creating interesting worlds, mythologies and maps...

Great image choice, Zam. I agree that the 4e halflings seem bizarre and don't look at all small. The only way to tell they're halflings is the strange hair (which looks more like ancient Greek Herculanean style curls than dredlocks) and square ears. If I were to redesign halflings, I would be...

I just suspect that shows a difference between how monsters get skills in 4th edition. Perhaps more 1/2-level general competence, less specific specialized application of skill points. EDIT: Just saw what you were talking about. Weird.

I think this a great reverse-engineering of what we know/suspect about 4e characters. Good work! Now some thoughts. Hellmouth and Breath of Darigaaz seems overpowered for first level, even as a per day. I'm curious as to the basis for a cleric of Corellon rebuking aberrations. Also, I know...

To satisfy my nerdy need to categorize information available to me, I'm trying to come up with a list of the what we know about the geography and civlizations of the default "Points of Light" setting. Here's what I've seen: "As kingdoms and empires grew and collapsed -- the human realm of...

I suspect you're on to something here. Multiclass casters won't have the breadth of spell trees, but within a certain branch they'll be almost as good as a single-classed caster. Alternately, they could just design spells (and class features that work similarly) so they scale more with...

Is this really what they mean by "sources of power?" I don't think there will be game rules that interact with "power sources" the way current rules interact with things like "celestial." I think it's more of a design & development question: "what's the fuel source for PCs?" In other words...

I may be missing the point of this debate, but Vow of Poverty is one example of this approach, right? It may not be optimally balanced, but I think that's more an issue of execution than concept. I once started to draft up an alternative ruleset that turned treasure-sourced abilities into...

I wish I could post this in a place where I knew someone from WotC was actually paying attention. But I figure page 2 of an ENWorld thread is better than page 29 of a Wizards thread. Here's what I want out of D&D in 4e: Familiars as a default class option - Flavor-wise, you might as well...

In case anyone else hasn't been able to catch the videos, check out the posts by GamerZer0 on YouTube. 4th Edition Presentation Part 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJ3J8t2-RVs 4th Edition Presentation Part 2 (includes demo of the virtual game table) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWZ2WdeTo1M...

...Of course, in the time since I posted this, Wizards.com has been down because it apparently couldn't handle the extra traffic generated by this news. I sure hope they get some extra/better servers between now and the release of their online gaming tables. :)

Honestly, the feature that has me most excited is the virtual gaming table. If that's any good, I will be all over this new edition. All my RPG time in the past couple of hears has been spent playing via IRC or PBP. If this is a way to do that more easily, it would fulfill my wildest dreams...

Thanks, guys! Our team is doing an analysis and critique of Sony's PS3 ad campaign, as well as offering suggestions for improvement. It's a business school class, so it's more about the theme, targeting and business strategy than the actual creative production.

I am a loyal (albeit lapsed) ENWorlder who needs your help! I'm working on a class project about video game advertising, and for our final presentation we need some decent survey results. It's going well so far, but we'll only have the survey open for about 10 more hours and we still need more...