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They're probably dropping Gnomes, which I think is a good thing. They're not different enough from halflings or dwarves to be significant. I'd say drop the Half Elf as a mechanic as well. No one ever plays them, they have absolutely no flavor of their own. If you want to play a half elf...

As hussar said, Aid another is NEVER used. The only time it's used is when one combatant realizes it is impossible for him to affect an opponent, and only *then* does aid another come out, and it's usually to the tune of "What, I need a 19 to hit and then even my max damage bounces? I guess...

This is D&D not an MMORPG. You don't get free "please attack me and only me" abilities.... They're a crutch that originated on MUDs that didn't have graphics, so there was no way for the cloth wearers to "Stay away" from the big baddies. It continued in MMORPGs probably because they don't...

See, I think of that three hours as three hours of fun I *wouldn't* get to do if I bought a third party book :) -Nate

Meh. most people don't buy non WoTC stuff, especially to replace official content (even if it's not out yet). For those who really want to play a bard or monk or Gnome, I'm sure they'll make their own rules.... why use someone else's unofficial imperfect class when you can use your own? :) -Nate

Actually the PHBII weapon mastery feats made me think of basic D&D's weapon mastery rules. I don't remember anything in the Cyclopedia about special maneuvers with individual weapons, but it's been a long time (I wonder where my Cyclopedia went... I don't have it anymore). -Nate

(sorry for the off topic post) The PS3 is 2 years newer than the 360, of course the 360 has been outselling it. But you know what? The PS3 has sold more units than the 360 did at this point in the 360's lifetime, and the 360 was the only next-gen console at that time. This "ridiculously...

PS3? You mean the powerhouse of the bunch, rock solid stable, comes out a bit later, but once people start looking at what it can do, they love it. The 360 is 2nd edition. You think it's good when you have it, but then it just starts falling apart. And the wii is like some crappy fast play...

I love the idea of spellcasters being able to sense other spell casters a la the Force. I put that into my own custom campaign setting... same goes for fighter types... if you've been fighting all your life, you can tell by the way someone moves how good they are (at least in all good fiction)...

Of course it does, why do you think they take six different classes to try to get full casting and almost full BAB? If BAB doesn't make you a better fighter, why not play your wizard like a fighter? Ever play a fighter and multiclass into a 3/4 BAB class and lose that one BAB? It makes a big...

I've played a lot of clerics in 3e and I've never felt overpowered. Yes, *in theory* the cleric can be better than the fighter and the wizard, but it never happens that way in reality. The only thing that can really make clerics uber is if you play very high level campaigns with persistent...

This just gave me a really obtuse thought - what if we took that statement literally? In 4e, you start with 4 hitdice, fighter types start with 4 BAB, cleric types with 3, and wizard types with 2. You gain a new hitdie at every level divisible by 3, for a total of 14 hit dice at level 30...

Never really came up. Yes, I certainly understand how logically, it doesn't make much sense... but it's the same with humans. two 18 year olds leave town, one comes back a year later and is a 20th level wizard, the other is now a journeyman leatherworker..... It's D&D, these things happen. -Nate

Healing in D&D reminds me of life gain in Magic: The Gathering. Unless the amount healed is huge, it's almost always better to spend your action & other resources trying to remove threats rather than patch the damage already done. In Magic, most life gain spells that see any use are fairly...

Maybe what they should do is split up the idea of the jack of all trades and the music based caster. I think most people dislike the bard because of one sentence "I start singing". If you have a jack of all trades who is not a bard, (basically replace bardic music with something else), you...

I hope this is not the case. The martial classes are differentiated by their superior ability to land a blow... the wizard shouldn't be just as good. If you mean "everyone gets 1/2 level BAB and fighters get a feat every odd level for +1 BAB", then I think that would be fine. But I don't...

Great first post, but where the heck are the updates?

This is great. We almost always start off at level 3 anyway.... I think you'll find that this will not stop you from being wet-behind-the-ears. You're still only going to have 1st level abilities, you just will have more hitpoints (most likely). One of the problems they've stated is that at...

I voted for no random hitpoints. There's nothing worse than rolling a 1 on your die.... that's up to 11 hitpoints you will never ever have over the entire lifetime of your character. It's the same reason why most people use point buy.... no one wants to get stuck with the guy who rolled bad...

Actually, if they take the bard out of the core books, maybe they can make them even better in a future supplement. I'd love to see the bard done up way more than just skills and spells and a few special abilities. Something completely revamped with tons of special abilities and magic that's...