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Monsters whose abilities continue to affect a party after the fight ain't really new... ...So I'm not really sure what this is all about.

Yeah, that one jumped out at me as especially interesting. I wouldn't mind seeing something like that in the real D&D 4e. Also, I wonder if Monte is going to do anything with these house rules. I know he's supposed to be out of the RPG design racket, now, but it's gonna be a brave new...

I like the looks of 4e, but I am prone to endlessly bitch about even my favorite games.I'm disappointed they don't seem to be trimming down the class list in favor of more generic classes. The talent tree direction seems cool, but they could've used it to eliminate things like Paladins and...

I've gotta second the idea of pillaging ConceptArt.org. I'd love to see the likes of Marko Djurdjevic and Justin Kaufman working for WotC. Also, for God's sake, get Keith Thompson to do both art and fluff. Hell, give him his own campaign setting to create. I'll buy two copies. Neither would...

Yeah, this is about where I'm at, too. It's not so much the work I mind, but I don't exactly trust myself to come up with balanced crunch, so I love books that are big, flavorless, mechanical toolkits for me to use in implementing my own fluff.

Seriously. Why do they keep doing this? It must be an automatic part of their content management system.

I won't be too surprised if a lot of 3.75 stuff does crop up, next year. I imagine there'll be a market (if a small one) for materials on how to incorporate 4e mechanical innovations into an ongoing campaign without losing access to 3.5's incredible wealth of races, classes, and feats. I'm...

Elfquest is a bad influence on the paper it's printed on.

Yes, I realize the nature of your misunderstanding. As you yourself point out, it wouldn't make very much sense for me to accuse someone of disliking art on the grounds that they themselves consider it interesting and dynamic, so I didn't expect it was really necessary to wallow in this...

"Accurately" is probably too much to ask for, since obviously the basic class mechanics are going to be changing a bit, but I'd assume that if your character is, say, a halfling rogue without any particularly exotic feats, it's pretty much assured that you'll be able to produce about as faithful...

Potayto, potahto. That wasn't a strawman; it was a personal opinion. Fifteen years ago, I thought Elmore and Easley's work was the best RPG art I could imagine. Today, it doesn't really interest me.

So on various spectrums--such as weapon size, sense of action, and character design flamboyance--3e's art is generally closer to the bands that various anime and manga inhabit than 2e's art was. I can certainly buy that. But it doesn't really make is sound any less absurd when someone points...

Definitely, but for me it's got the effect of completely invalidating anything cool that just happened, and keeping me from taking the characters seriously. Or being interested in the show at all. I think I make it to about the fourth episode or so. I know anime series often have this...

Ears, hair, and eyes are all very anime. She hasn't got the really over-the-top glistening dinner plate eyes, but they're definitely within the range of styles I'd call "anime". The non-anime elements would be the fact that the character actually has a nose and lips (not entirely unheard of in...

They're saying you can't possibly recreate all the character options of 3e (the version of D&D that really opened the character option floodgates) with the rules available in brand new, we-haven't-got-any-suppliments-yet 4e. They're saying that you probably won't be able to convert your...

Ha. Rats are awesome.

Christ, so true. One of the big reasons I can't tolerate much anime is the obnoxious silliness that frequently invades otherwise serious shows. Full Metal Alchemist, for example, looked like a pretty really worthwhile show, but I just could not tolerate the regular reminders that the damn...

Good lord, people. There are indeed hidden images in the glow around the sword. But not the ones you lot are thinking of.

See, that ain't a bad idea. I could actually work something kind of like that into the direction I've been thinking about. I'd already decided that the reason the desert people are so adept with psionics is because they used to be the thralls of a mind flayer empire. And the reason that half...

Ah, hell. Now I'm really thinking about this as a setting concept. Okay, so if I was going to do a psionics-as-the-only-supernatural-power campaign setting, I'd probably be doing a little bit of a Chinese riff. The whole routine of people going off to monasteries to learn to focus their minds...