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I would think that they might have done the above not hypocritically, but very deliberately. My suspicions are that this discussion went along these lines: A: Let's redesign staff, wands and items into permanent wizardly implements, rather than charged items. B: OK, we don't want to make...

I suspect that in this, PC conjurer, druid and necromancer classes will be rebuilt. It's easy for a DM to fill a dungeon with undead creatures, make the villain behind it a necromancer and handwave that he somehow is responsible for them all. However, in a party, having one character with a...

I did find a link to the ENWorld discussion on the Scott Rouse quote: http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=204662 That seems to be the major point of contention.

I know that after the announcement of 4e, there were a number of threads on subject of WotC lying about the release of 4e. One of them was from this year's D&D eXperience and another from Winter Fantasy, as I recall. From what I remember from the outcomes of those threads, it seemed as if the...

I agree that there should be the implicit assumption and encouragement of white-hat, heroic play in the core books of D&D. Even "bad boy" races and classes like tieflings and fiend-powered warlocks should have an underlying subtext that these will be used for dark heroes that struggle against...

Random, quick death combined with resurrection that's only an annoyance is definitely the worst of both worlds in my book. All you've done is instead of nerfing death magic, you've actually nerfed DEATH ITSELF! This kind of stuff is most "video-gamey" piece of the whole game: "Don't worry...

No, but I do think that what you include after this statement is exactly what the gnome needs: a clear, distinctive concept to wrap itself around. One that doesn't step on the toes of other races and make gnomes "that other race that is sort of like dwarves, but with a sense of humor" or "sort...

I'll also note that since turning is keyed to hit dice, it interacts particularly poorly with the undead monster type as described in the Monster Manual. Because of the lack of CON bonuses to hit points, monstrous undead hit dice exploded in value at mid to high levels. This resulted in...

That would make more sense to me. If you look at his primary fictional inspirations for D&D, I think you'll find it really dominated by morally questionable protagonists and out-and-out anti-heroes. Many of his noted inspirational fantasy works were often getting away from black-and-white...

Very true, but they also tend to have the blandest and least exciting racial packages, because any kind of focus tends to drift away from another potential focus. Are gnomes going to have 5 or 6 different racial write-ups, depending on what kind of gnome you'd like to play? As I noted before...

It definitely sounds as though the designers want to narrow the scope of the "generalist" wizard. They've already mentioned that there will be a dedicated Necromancer class and an Illusionist class, each of which will have spells not available to standard wizards. I think this is a step in the...

To me, the issue of moral ambiguity isn't really the issue. I love playing D&D with black-and-white hats, clear divisions between Good and Evil. I stopped paying attention to alignment in D&D ages ago, except when used by another DM. The vast majority of my campaigns center around heroic...

I'm not just Romantic Good, I'm Romantic *Great*.....

I dislike alignment as a cosmological force that defines planes and results in creatures with detectable alignment tags. It just gets me that you could go to your local spellcaster once a week and have your alignment checked to see if you were beginning to slide. "Gee, John, you're looking a...

I don't know, I seem to recall a *lot* of evil-in-all-but-name adventuring in my 1e days. The Assassin class was definitely not NPC only, in my experience. Further, while EGG may have balked at outright evil characters, his own mage Mordenkainen is pretty much a classical, power-hungry amoral...

That could be an issue if the gnomish write-up in the MM is lacking in details or options. Considering their importance to the Eberron setting and presence in many other established D&D worlds, I would guess that they (and any former PH races not found in the 4e PH) will rapidly get full...

True, although the latest supplement Dragons of Eberron comes down pretty clearly on the faith side.. Here's a quote: "Even though Tiamat isn't a true goddess, clerics who worship the Daughter of Khyber do receive spells, just as warforged devoted to the Lords of Blades do. Tiamat herself...

I would just note that clerics in Eberron definitely do not have their spellcasting granted directly from their deity. It's been mentioned several times in Eberron books (such as Dragons of Eberron most recently) that there are clerics of the Lord of Blades who cast just fine, no matter his...

Put me on the list of people who prefer more inhuman looking tieflings. I've gotten quite enough non-human races being simply humans with pointy ears or different colored hair. We're not limited by a make-up budget here. While the tieflings above are nice bits of art, they seem like pretty...

In case you missed it, the whole point of this thread is that gnomes *will* be in 4e. Specifically in the Monster Manual. Further, designers have noted that some of the Monster Manual creatures will be getting PC style write-up notes. Also, is it *that* tough to come up with a gnome racial...