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Index cards. $1.00 a pack, I can write whatever I want on them, and use colored pens or highliters to indicate what type of power they are. Much cheaper and far more practical when I only need a handful of powers. Ditto the thoughts on timing for the official cards, the DDI cards, and...

Which is the cost of doing business. That's just the nature of doing such things online, but no reason to really make it that difficult for new folks to join. Kind of self-defeating.

Wow...you can't register online now? What year is this? Maybe they should figure a way to integrate this into the brand-spanking shiny new DDI.

Can't wait to send my players to the Hellbad. Honestly, Plane of Shadow and Faerie Realm work just fine for me, but I can understand why they wanted "new" names for places like that...so they can control the IP. More business decision than design decision. 'tis a shame!

Yecch, I'm getting flashbacks from 2E now, and its splat books. How many new layers of optional sub-systems are we going to throw into the pot now? And so soon...

That's it, I'm going out this weekend and buying some masks and some puppets.

Shhhhhhhh. I'm there now. Someone come releave me around 5:00 p.m.

Must...resist...urge to make joke...

Hooray for innovation! Good move guys, hopefully others will take notice. :p

90% of the time I'm the DM, and I still like it. I like knowing what my player's options are, and I like having it as a base to use when designing my NPC's. Plus I like using it to measure against powers/classes/races I'm going to create. And since I've never used an edition of D&D RAW, I...

It's kind of a catch-22. For organized play they have to stick to certain rules and standards, just to keep things running the same at every venue. It would never work if every DM used his own house rules. But yeah, its a shame so much of WotC's design focus takes the RPGA into account.

Overall I think PH2 has better art than the other books so far. I have to agree with some of the criticisms of O'Conner though. I'm not sure I dig his style, and since he's the lead illustrator for 4E, it tends to sour me on some of the overall designs. His proportions always seem a little...

The game I play in currently doesn't use milestones. I don't intend to use them in the games I run either. I think the designers need to give some us more credit about being able to decide when to hand out action points instead of making it an arbitrary number of encounters. I think most of...

I think we should stop trying to define "D&D" by any one edition/playstyle/ruleset, and start defining "D&D" as a "genre".

Sometimes I hate being a cynic, but in times like these I'm glad. My shennanigan meter was off the scale with this, but I chose to remain neutral. I would say that he obviously has personal issues and needs help, but that's certainly no excuse for taking advantage of others emotionally. It...

That design philosophy makes me sad. :( I understand its goal from a marketing standpoint, but from a creative standpoint is sure seems too restrictive. I always liked the little differences each setting had. That's what really helped make them unique. Oh well, at least we all have the...

This line of thinking is something I try to emphasize to my players when they create characters for any system. I try to get them to make sure they cover certain "skills" that are non-combat oriented, so that all the important bases are covered, and then make sure they have some overlap. That...

Sure there was! It was called the Plane of Shadow. :D

Just trying to point out the design philosopy of 4E thus far. Sure, you can put Ravenloft in the Shadowfell, and that's a good fit for it. But its certainly not where Ravenloft has always been. Also a good example of how different campaign settings are going to be forced to conform to 4E...

Thanks for trying to twist my words, but I think I made my point. Paizo could only work with the rules they had.