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Despite all the discussion of the difference between tiers of play, it has been noted that 11th level PCs won't be radically more powerful than 10th all of a sudden. As we've seen glimpses of, it appears the primary difference is that 11th characters will be able to choose from Paragon choices...

I don't really understand how the alignment system prevents any of this. Do you explicitly forbid certain alignments to your players? If not, why didn't they pick Chaotic Creep anyway? If they picked another alignment and didn't play it correctly, how is that any kind of success for the...

I think the thing that's silliest is that it often is pronounced like an accusation. With no real arguments about whether the ideas are good or bad, but rather that simply being associated with WoW has horrible, negative implications. This is beyond the fact that many of these supposed...

That's not really an in game system like alignment. That's "actions have consequences." Are people worried that without alignment on the character sheet that actions will cease to have consquences? In game systems in other RPGs that could be likened to alignment would be the various Humanity...

I can honestly say that whenever I've played RPGs without alignment, I've *never* encountered anyone (including myself) stating that the game would be better if only it had an alignment system. Either the game is clearly black and white morality already, in which case we didn't need alignment...

Now that's a question I was asking myself last night. We already know that in 4e, Angels will not have to be Good, since they're making Angels the servants of deities of all moralities. I think the definition of Angel won't be based on morality, but rather on origin and function: Angels are...

For some values of chaotic, this sounds fine. After the Blood War has been invoked as some kind of grand, cosmic conflict between diametrically opposed Law! and Chaos!, it's kind of a comedown to find that it seems to boil down to stylistic choices. They just don't seem different enough for me...

I feel the change is in the right direction, but not as much as I would like. Like they said, it looks like we're going to end up with a Charlie Brown Christmas Tree effect. I suppose that more wasn't in the cards because players just like magic items too much to reduce the default number...

I think you could keep Sigil pretty readily, really. If we look at Sigil as less "center of the aligned universe" and more "City of Doors", then much of it can be easily transferred. If we look at a third party supplement like Beyond Countless Doors, we can find adventures that involved...

Even as enemies, they don't resonate with me like human(-oid) villains, the undead, fiends, dragons, abominations, snake-men....hmmm, pretty much any kind of foe beats out the fey with me, I guess. However, if the Feywild is worked well into the default setting and we get some decent adventures...

If they can actually get me to use the fey as a regular element in a campaign, it will be the first time *ever* in D&D for me. I usually end up skipping through those entries in the MM and ignoring all the adventures in Dungeon that had the adventurers getting caught up in the wacky hijinks of...

This sounds very much like the explanations in Expedition to the Demonweb Pit last year. My main issue with it is that your description of the city frankly resembles very closely what I would imagine a city in the Hells would be like. Clearly, it isn't true that Graz'zt's city has no...

That is certainly a concern for many, since he is one of the most popular of the demon lords. As noted before, in most of his portrayals there is very little to distinguish him and his plots from those of Mephistopheles or most of the other arch-devils. I think that in the latest Demonweb...

I had a similar feeling during the publication of the Time of Troubles. I hated all the changes it made to the realms, I hate Ao, I hated the way they portrayed the gods and I hated the new cosmology. I just ignored the whole thing and in my Realms campaigns, the Time of Troubles never...

For the purposes of illustrating the conflicts of evil versus evil and bringing the PCs into the middle of an ancient cosmic war between implacable foes, I think that there will be plenty of scope in the new default cosmology for that. Given the description of the Elemental Chaos and the hordes...

I don't mind keeping the Nine layers, but I hope that the new origins and differentiation have writers use devils more in adventures and campaigns. Maybe it's just the last few years, but it seems like lately demons and the Abyss get all the love. I suspect a lot of that is that the Abyss is...

I suspect we are going to continue to disagree on this subject. All of your examples of supposedly Chaotic behavior are just stereotypes (probably informed by the usual depiction of the Ogre in D&D). Why are Chaotic creatures unorganized and without advanced strategy? Two of the most famous...

I believe the primary motivation for making more explicit class roles is to address some of the "problem classes" in 3e. There were many complaints about classes like the bard and monk not being very effective in combat. I've often seen players complain that these and other "oddball" classes...

I have to admit this something I've never understood. By the time you understand enough about a creature's motivations and behavior to assign alignment (it is descriptive, not prescriptive, right?), why do you need alignment? The behaviors that are consistent with each two letter alignment...

I don't think that's needed to posit. I believe I've seen him posting about his confusion on Fourth Editon on another forum (RPGSite).