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Actually, beyond the Pit Fiend having a note about a potential wish granting ritual, the recent Realms article on the Wailing Dwarf noted that nagas, at least, are monsters capable of collecting and learning rituals. http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/drfe/20080114 I does note that...

A lot of this will have to do with what the DMG establishes in terms of treasure/rewards guidelines for campaigns. I'm hoping for fewer and more interesting items overall. From everything presented, there should be no reason that a DM who wished to generate his NPCs by the full PC process...

I definitely hope so as well. While the Christmas Tree Effect was annoying, equally annoying was the "Piles of +X Weapons and Armor to Resell" problem. It was hard to put much emphasis on the special value of magic items when your characters are toting back enough magical hardware looted from...

This is definitely where we see that design preferences can differ enormously. I'm really hoping that they have some kind of restriction so that the spells a wizard picks actually mean more than "these are the spells that I don't want to hunt for." It just drives me nuts that not only can...

Hmmm, I suspect that there are a couple of possible misunderstandings: 1) Wizards will definitely have some per day spells that *may* involve preparation. I believe the per encounter and at will spells will be chosen at leveling. 2) Of course, they will be able to *choose* from many spells...

I believe that the Pit Fiend's stat block is intended as a baseline for DMs using it straight out of the book. You will note that it does have other abilities, as they note that every 99 years, they can grant a wish to a mortal. From the sounds of ritual magics and monster customization, there...

Perhaps I'm not remembering correctly, but I think I recall *more* negative outpourings on Third Edition than I do about 4e. I think some of that has more to do with the situation (WotC being seen as a usurper), but I recall lots and lots of knockdown, eye-gouging fights on Usenet, forums and...

BTW, while I was thinking about the plot with Manshoon's clones waking up and creating all sorts of havoc, I occurred to me that I would have missed that entirely if I had decided to do as I intended after the Avatar Trilogy and never buy another Realms supplement again. I still hate the Time...

Frankly, even if rituals are defined as spellcaster-only, I'm going to be making my own class of rituals that work as described. I've always had such things in my previous campaigns, it just never fit very well with the previous editions of D&D and their conception of magic. This way, the...

That was Lord Manshoon, the most powerful mage in the Zhentarim. And I do like that plot, I think it may have started at the tail end of 2e. I'm hoping that the rules for rituals allow for this sort of plot-device magic that encourages dramatic, interesting magic with more fantastic...

Hmmmm, unfortunately now that I review what has been said about them, very little. I've been reading them interpreting them as the equivalent of incantations, which are indeed usable by non-spellcasters. Also, I've been coming up with ideas for stories using rituals in many of the ways I...

Since the players are going to be opposing devils, I'm thinking that they can actually break out for a time when summoned. So the stereotypical plot would be: foolish mortal makes a bargain with a devil for power, the whole things blows up in his face and devils are released into the world...

Yes, it also sounds as if Rituals will be able to be performed by anyone if they meet the requirements. Of course, some of the requirements may involve spellcasting power, but I don't think all of them will. So there might be a ritual that can only be used by the seventh son of a seventh son...

Oh yeah, this happened years ago. There's apparently an interview where the writers' stated they didn't really like the theme of having Big Bird never being believed by any of the adults on the program on this. Ah well. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aloysius_Snuffleupagus

Wow, 5e will be the next Ghostbusters RPG?! This is better than Christmas!

All undead besides vampires must be voiced by Uncle Deadly.

Ah, but Al Qadim was great all the way through *its* release schedule. (Whistles innocently and walks away from thread)

God, this is FourthBear. If you're listening, let there be more Al Qadim content coming. Those who do not see that it was the best damn setting ever made for D&D shall be cast into confusion and the righteous shall rejoice.

I think that what will be provided in the three 4e books will be equivalent in the quantity of content to previous editions, although obviously not identical to the exact distribution. Not all options will be there, because that would an impossibility. If you have very specific needs for your...

I would guess it's the latter. I believe that they don't want to wait to have published examples of a Paragon adventure and how it varies, thematically and mechanically, from a Heroic Tier one.