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Fourth Edition will be a new edition of D&D, in the same fashion as the Third and Second Edition. They will be releasing the core books (the PH, DMG and MM) this June. There will be a number of changes to the rules, classes, races and background in this upcoming edition. Much of the...

I believe the Great Wheel predates the Manual of Planes by a significant amount, as it was present in the original DMG, published in 1979 (I think). Edit: Ooops, or was it the PH, as Dustyboots noted. Mea culpa.

There's no need to bring the proposed beliefs of the designers into this. I have been a player and DM since before the publication of the first Monster Manual. I am quite familiar with the portrayal of the fiends in all editions of the game to date. As I stated before, these changes increase...

While I can see a PoL campaign where characters would not wish to band together due to xenophobia, I don't think it would need to be so. After all, adversity is frequently used in fiction to bring normally opposing forces together. While a cleric might *wish* to remain with a likeminded church...

Moving away from the Blood War and onto the new cosmology that 4e is proposing, I approve of the attempts to better distinguish the devils from the demons. Devils as trapped fallen angels, classical tempters in obedience to Asmodeus, who has claimed the mantle of the god they all betrayed seems...

If a campaign needs to invoke alignment to explain why the adventuring are risking life and limb together, I think the DM and players need to sit down and think about the motivations behind the characters. I can't imagine alignment being either necessary or sufficient for this purpose. When I...

I don't think that mind flayers becoming front rank troops will be too much of a worry. They'll still have supergenius intelligences and a culture that emphasizes the callous use of thralls. If human mastermind opponents can manage to do their evil from the back ranks without unlimited 3e...

If the war between the celestials and the fiends (Good vs Evil) was portrayed as Planescape portrayed the Blood War, I would also complain about how pointless it was. In fiction that portrays conflicts between Good and Evil (and Law and Chaos for that matter), the conflict is not well reduced...

Here are several arguments I have made that do not fit your claim above and have not been addressed: 1) Fire resistance for the dragon is briefly and temporarily increased when the dragon breathes fire 2) The dragon is magically attuned to its own flames in a way that is not matched by other...

Yes, but there are many ways for just as magical explanations to result in fire breathing dragons that are not immune to fire. Since this may result in more interesting encounters, by allowing two similar dragon's breath weapons to actually affect each other (with resistance). Or allowing a...

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Now that I think about it, there's another way to explain dragon breath/fire resistance issues. Perhaps maximum heat of the flames is not reached at the dragon's mouth, but at the desired point of attack. With flames, the hottest point is almost never at the base of the flames. This could be...

Actually instead of storing this fire, they could be spontaneously generating it, much as mage does when he casts fireball. They could also be living gates to the Elemental Plane of Fire for brief periods, in order to generate fire. Also, "stored" fire could be quite a bit more harmless to the...

That indicates that the dragon has some form of pyrokinesis. If it can control fire in that way, it could definitely be deliberately controlling its own flames in a way that it cannot do for another's flames. I recall a comic book character named Pyro who could control flames, but had no...

I'd imagine there are a large numbers of way to explain a fire breathing dragon not being immune to fire: 1) The surfaces that are exposed to fire when it breathes are far more resistant than its other surfaces. In other words, it's throat and mouth may be highly resistant to flame, but the...

You can get the boxed set as a PDF file from a wide variety of sources, including our very own ENWorld store. Its full title is Hellbound: The Blood War. I should note that I have the boxed set and I'm still glad we're moving away from the Blood War, but different strokes and all that.

I agree with those who say that Halflings haven't been discussed much because they really haven't been changed that much. We haven't seen much discussion of dwarves or humans, either. Except in that both have had their "preferred habitat" changed, dwarves more the the surface and humans to the...

It's possible. I've been playing since the red box D&D days and I come at it from a different perspective. I never liked the Blood War when it was introduced. As far as I'm concerned it's a poorly conceived intrusion on D&D cosmology, not some kind of beloved campaign element. I never used...

I have to admit that while I did like some of the specific daemons and concepts, overall the race has never particularly inspired me. The writers had a hard enough time trying to distinguish the CE fiends from the LE fiends, let alone from the NE fiends. Unless a very strong distinguishing...

Because it greatly withdrew the focus of demons and devils from what I felt should always be their main focus: corrupting mortals and warring against the forces of Good. Stories about fiends like demons and devils focus on their attempts to tempt mortals, escape from Hell and defy the forces of...