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The fighter's character sheet from D&D XP had a power that can only be used while wielding a shield. That power enabled you to move enemies up to one size larger than you.

And you don't see a problem with this? "The fighter is trapped in a force bubble, the cleric is down, the other cleric was pushed off a ledge four rounds ago and won't be able to climb up for two more rounds. The bad guy is beating me in combat. My one chance is to push him off the ledge." DM...

It makes perfect sense when you put it like that. On the other hand, the net effect is exactly the same whether Andy said "Yeah, but only the good stuff because we want to fix the rest" or whether Andy said "You know we need a couple plants to write about how awesome 4th edition is while...

The problem, as indicated by your quotes is that the designers have as idiosyncratic a definition of fun as they have of cool. Heironeous is boring. Really? Bahamut is cool. Really? Melora (who the $%&! is that?) is cool. Uh huh? Meiliki, Obad Hai, and Ehlonna are not. Uh huh. I thought that...

Every option has advantages and disadvantages. 1. Secondary market DDM singles. The price is pretty reasonable and there's a great selection. They can be representative for everything if you get a good selection but you don't need enough to have the PCs and important NPCs/villains look like...

2010. By that time, there will be enough splats with different mechanics for every manuever and ability that it will be in the state of late 2nd edition AD&D and there will be popular outcry and demand for a 5th edition.

You see, this is the kind of assumption that gets game designers into trouble. What if a paladin does get a striker's mobility (maybe he multiclassed or has striker training or figured a way to use some power from the third splatbook published to give himself lots of mobility)? What if other...

The real trick in 4th edition will be waiting for a second mechanic to come out that enables you to defend an ally (similar to the Eternal Blade's defender power in DDM 2.0). Then one character marks the target with thicket of blades or something and the character with defender stands next to...

Not necessarily so. WotC folks described the swordmage as an arcane defender--a character who uses magic to fight more effectively rather than a multi-role character who can swing a sword or toss a fireball as he sees fit. It is quite possible that the promised sword wielding wizard can fill the...

I'm of two minds about this. First, the beholder picture shows what seems to be the cleric of Pelor mini from the Dungeons of Dread preview along with an anonymous dwarf that could really be any mini. If the D&D minis line will be available in digital form for use, that's not too bad. If I had...

That's designer marketing BS. Since the first 3e games, 3e combats quite regularly had more than one monster. (The first two Living Greyhawk modules for 3rd edition--Dragonscales at Morningtide and River of Blood both featured multi-opponent battles ranging from three to seven opponents per...

Oh joy. This new version of Risk is exactly what I'm looking for! At the same time, it will play faster and have a more relaxing pace! The old Risk sucks! the New RISK rules! All you risk 2.0 haters are morons!

I suspect that the "leader" role bears only a tangential relationship to actual leadership. (Which probably makes it a poor choice to describe the role since in ordinary english "leader" is also a role that a person might have in a group). What it probably means in terms of class construction is...

From the sounds of things, it's not too much different from a party of effectively built 3rd edition characters without a cleric: you make up for the lack of healing in other ways--more battlefield control and blasting power, more straightforward attacking damage output, etc. One way or the...

Drinking a potion as a minor action? Doesn't seem right to me--much for the same reason as others have described. If WotC wants to make potions a more efficient use of a combat action, they should simply have them heal more effectively. That way, you spend the action to heal and even if your...

So, what's the christmas tree effect again? Is it that characters all buy the same six items. Or is it that every character has so many items that they're like a yuppie christmas tree? If MIC was an effort to fix the former problem, then it only partially succeeded. It provides a variety of...

For one, I would be very happy if the spiked chain disappeared in 4.0. That would be enough to make me look at the edition a lot more closely. In core 3.x, however, the spiked chain isn't as bad as people are making it out to be by itself. The finessing is a trap. The tripping is nifty but can...

Tell me which of these scenarios you would rather see happen in a dungeon. 1. "We cannot hold them here; we must fall back!" [Sounds of fighting, rapid cut scenes as the characters retreat from their large rectangular room. The characters reach a room with a narrow, ornamental staircase; the...

Since this has devolved into "how does it work in 3.x?" territory, I'll ad my two cents: A lightly armored fighter works just fine in 3.x. A strength-free fighter who doesn't use sneak attack, on the other hand, does not. Core D&D 3.5 actually has five armor types that are potentially optimal...

It is indeed very similar to min-maxing ability scores. (Though min-maxing ability scores isn't always a bad thing. Rudgar, filler of Graves the claymore wielding beserker ought to have a high strength and be able to kill two orcs with one stroke. If you describe the character you want to play...