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By the way, your nick should be rounded down to mach1.0pants RAW.

Actually, I think I've watched mre anime than the vast majority of people around here, since I started 'round 1977 when I was a kid, and I still like it. ;) I was referring to this: "Where daring swashbucklers jump from balloon-ships to battle fell dragons and rescue the princess. Where...

So - Mystara is ANIME!!!!! (sorry, someone had to do this)

I guess that's why they called the new builds "subclasses" instead of just "builds". They are free to diverge more from the roles and mechanics of the "default" PHB builds while keeping reasonably true to the overall class archetype. Could work. After all, a heavy warrior hitter (other than...

Yep, in the old times the fighter was the easiest class, so it was pretty obvious to be a fighter in the intro adventure. Now that all classes share similar mechanics and have more or less the same level of difficulty, it's a good approach.

I think the Knight is coming out good. Defender Aura is easy: you only have to track if an enemy is adjacent to you to use it. I think all Knight markings are going to be similar in concept. The reference to other marked creatures is there just for interaction with other fighters. Stances are...

I like the concept. Paragon Paths and Prestige Classes are good tools to implement specialized classes, knightly orders and other kinds of advanced characters. But some kind of specialization at first level is always welcome. Backgrounds are not enough. Themes could be great also to represent...

Let me try to recap... Essentials seem to target different kinds of people: - Current 4E players, that will find new options, fully compatible with their PHB/DMG/MM/Splatbooks - New players, that will find easier and streamlined classes and things in order to learn playing in a moment - 3E...

One thing that never made sense to me is the placement of Carceri and Gehenna. Carceri, a prison plane, is chaotic? It seemed to me that lawful was more fitting. Gehenna, an instable realm of magma is lawful? I think chaotic describes it better. I used to swap them.

From what I read until now, it seems the new classes are just alternate versions of existing ones, just like the various Samurai incarnations through the ages in Dragon Magazine. They are all different takes. As long as the ame system is the same I'll play the one I prefer. Still, I'd darn...

I like they are experimenting with new class paradigms other than the usual at-will/encounter/daily, just like I'm happy with they did with psionic classes. True, they were not perfect, but I can just not play them if I don't like them and keep using the ones I like. What feels strange to me...

Amen!

I agree that is good for a game to have a sort of base for the player characters. Where they can find haven, help, info, make role playing ties with NPC and such. What I don't like is it to be a former city-state. Given the nature of the setting, I think it would be much more logical to be a...

Yes, that's my point. For newbie players, in my experience just the added difficulty of selecting from all the feats, seems to bee too much. If they leave feats in the Essential books I hope they are "fixed type" ones, let's say those that add a flat bonus to a stat or defense and such, so...

Well, I don't agree on this, but I know I'm in the minority. :)

What I'd like from the Essentials are (don't know how much of this is comfirmed/rumored): - be straight forward presentation of classes, with a limited subset of powers, just one build, no more than 2 powers to chose from per level. This would be perfect for new players, which in my...

BBT is one of the few sitcoms I can say I've seen every episode of, the other one being Happy Days. I think is one of the rare series where every character/actor couple is just... perfect. It's also maybe the only one where the geek stereotypes, while of course exaggerated for comedy, are...

If you can get an used Boxed Set on the net, that would be probably the best. Alternatively, if you just want to get the "feel" of the setting, given that all crunch in the Boxed Set will of course be of no use for 4E, you could try to get the first book of the famous/infamous Prism Pentad...

Didn't even remember. :D What I meant there is that I know that 4e reduced the number of size classes and coalesced creatures in the remaining ones. This in general caused a sort of "domino shift" of really big creatures, expecially Giants, towards the smaller categories. After all, if a Titan...