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I don't think that was the point. Actually, in all editions, magic items have always been a prominent feature of D&D. Players look ahead to get some uber-cool magic item. Heck, in older editions Paladins were actually EXPECTED to get a Holy Avenger!! What I think he meant was that a DM should...

This is funny. I haven't yet received the books, but could I heal an unwilling creature? If this is the case I could use a healing power to actually hinder an enemy, let's say it is close to 100% hit points so that I actually have him waste an action surge, or maybe it has an action surge...

Some great contributions here, but it seems to me that most of the links inside enworld are broken. Probably it's due to the change of the software, but still all links like this: http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=230145 should be corrected to...

When you cross a male lion with a female tiger you get a liger, which is bigger than both his parents. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liger#Size_and_growth Sometimes gene-crossed hybrids manifest qualities that are not just "halfway" between the parents, so the fact that a half-elf could be...

I'd personally wished for more humans. Honestly, humans are the most prominent race my player's gonna meet (and fight). The lowest level human IIRC is a 2 (or 3, don't remember) bandit armed with a club. I don't want to go through the first 2 levels fighting just kobolds and goblins. Plus...

If I can give my take on the HP / Hit Roll issue, I agree that they tread on their own feet. But that's for a very precise gaming need: HP give the player a sort of gauge of how things are going on. You could easily well go to the opposite end of the spectrum and model a combat system with no...

I don't see any problems. The rules say that "it counts like a feat", not that "it is a feat". This means that a fighter is eligible for taking Plate Proficiency, since his feature "counts like" he has Scale Proficiency, which is a prerequisite. If he looses some other prerequisite for Plate...

Maybe because you're American. Since it looks like a German word, I always thought it had to be pronounced like a German word, and it turns out to be right.

And Tron. I want my color-coded +5 vorpal identity disk of returning!!

That's great news!!! 3 books, Players + DMs + Campaing dedicated to one setting is a LOT of pages, all (hopely) consistently compiled and contained. That's really a lot, they could cover all the world of Athas in just one (three) shot. I REALLY, REALLY hope they will listen to what it seems...

Quoted. There are lots of opportunities for adventures that do not involve a changing of the status quo. Great opponents could be templars, powerful defilers, gith raiders, elf rogues, the Order... The sorcerer-kings could (and should) just be a backdrop in published adventures, expecially...

Amen. Personally, I have nothing against the ancient history of the setting as is, complete with Blue Age, Green Age, Rajaat and everything. What I really hated that the setting as presented in the original boxed set was completely destroyed without having the possibility of exploiting it...

Well, the novels and the setting are in the case of Dark Sun quite tightly bound, much more than other settings. After all, the very first adventures are "side treks" of the first novels. That's a pity, IMHO, because the setting could never be successfully explored this way. Just consider the...

Sweet memories... :) :) :) Oh, well where's the bad in learning from the past, anyway? ;););) If I REALLY had to be nitpicking, I'd say that Heroic -> Expert Set (3-14), since 4e starting characters seem to be a bit more powerful than BECMI 1st lev characters. That leaves room for, what...

Funny, I was thinking almost the same thing last night. I was considering how to "implement implements" (pardon the pun) in Dark Sun 4e, since they seem to be an important part of the new magic system. Then I realized a quick and dirty way of setting apart defilers from preservers would be to...

The canon material states that only epic level caster, such as the Dragon, could fuel their spells from animal life force. Usually lower level casters could cause pain to animals and humanoids, which if I recall correctly was implemented with some initiative penalty.

Overall I agree. As I said, I'll wait to have the rules in hand to decide exactly how I want defiling to be implemented in play, but I agree that's the correct direction.

Could be, but I would not "transfer" all the mechanics of defiling on rituals. One of the biggest mistakes in the revision of DS was putting the mechanics of defiling at memorization time (they must have realized that because they got back offering that option with Preservers and Defilers)...

Of course I still have to see the rules, but after reading in the new previews that APs can be used in various ways as you advance, I'm becoming more convinced that the easiest way to implement defiling is to have defiling give you an Action Point to be immediately used to get an extra action to...

This does not fit well with the setting fluff. Defiling, in Dark Sun novels and supplements WAS tempting. And even skilled preservers, like Sadira, had to revert to defiling when they really needed it. She was even hunted by her master that tried to kill her before she became a defiler. Maybe...