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And the Rodent of the Night once again provides proof that sometimes the stuff that was considered, tried and then cut is as intriguing as the stuff that made it all the way thru....

Well, based on the two Paladin PPs shown on that PHB picture (P PPs in the PHB P?), I'd guess that Paladin builds will be between a healing-focus and a combat focus. Hospitaller is decidedly healing-oriented, while Justicar is all about laying down the holy smack. The other classes, well...

I remember the 2.x Wizard spell cards and used 'em. I think they're the reason I bemoaned the 3.x nerfing of Tenser's Floating Disc (long story, involving an enemy sneak thief and a wall of thorns....)

I believe, at least from the powers we've seen so far, that the "bag of rats" issue is actually made moot by the powers themselves. Every one we've seen is quite explicit in which and how many targets it allows, so the old "Whirlwind/Great Cleave/bag'o'rats" schtick never gets a chance to get...

As stated by Dragonblade in reference to the Defense kicker, I believe Defenders (which is what the Master of Taijutsu appears to be) would only get their +2 attack bonus at first level and not every level (we're talking about +60 on attacks by 30th level, which is probably really really not...

I may be doing much the same thing. Nothing like diving in headfirst, eh?

From what we've seen of monsters, DR X/[attack] stuff seems to have been replaced by "Resist [attack], X" plus sometimes a corresponding "Vulnerable [attack], X", so you could easily have skeletons that are Resist Slashing 5 while at the same time Vulnerable Radiant 10 or something like that...

That's it -- I am so going to design an adventure with skill challenges that include: 1) Leaping across a river on floating logs and gators 2) Rescuing a princess from an ogrillion by climbing a series of ramps and ladders which are infested by fire archons and rolling boulder traps 3)...

I figured I needed to jump on the hyperbolic response bandwagon at least once, ya know? :)

That the White Raven maneuver where the initiator charges, deals +50 damage if he hits, and every ally within X range instantly gets a free charge and +25 damage if they hit? Yeah, that one's pretty damn sick in the right circumstances.

My only concern with them using the name Kensai for a Paragon Path is it takes the name out of the pool of possible names for the hypothesized Ki power source. I was thinking yesterday that a Kensai would be an ideal Ki Defender class (with Monk as striker & Samurai as Leader), and now that...

Yeah, but not a single one of those images would pass the Eric's Grandma test, now would they? ;)

Then again, when I think of the word Warlord, what immediately pops into mind is this: *edit -- 'cause I'm an idiot at linking images*

You can also add the requirement that only Memory Items can acquire "extra" abilities, like Frost, Flame, etc. How that would happen should be up to the DM: be it a Ritual, happenstance, etc.

That player has yet to live that day down, though to be fair, she was under the influence of NyQuil.... It didn't end there, tho. Me: Ummm, they're centaurs? Druid: Yeah, but what are they riding? Everyone: They're CENTAURS! Druid: But what are they riding?? Me: Ummm, themselves?

I can't speak for Ingolf, but I would point you to this excellent extension of the same concept to PCs by Irda Ranger by way of example: Threshold Extended to PCs. For a more slimmed-down explanation, WotC has trimmed down the number of types of bonuses, and thus the number of types which...

Ummm, wow. Huge, huge props to FabioMB for somehow noticing and pointing out the obvious answer that all the rest of us (myself included) somehow missed. I'm not being sarcastic here -- we all completely flaked out on that tiny-yet-soooo-cruicial detail that the excerpt is from the DMG and not...

Hmmm, while I still plan on running RAW, at least to start, that last bit of flavor for the histories of items screams..... ****YOINK**** ;)

I'll believe this when I see you apply the same exact reasoning to the naming conventions WotC is using for abilities, as they're also valuable in helping set a 'shared consensus world' just like what you want for vampire lords.

Hmmm, not seeing added complication here, really. Armor is now armor -- natural, manufactured, whatever -- and it doesn't stack. Quite frankly, I got annoyed in 3.x with how many things did stack, both as a player and a DM and it's nice to see that list being trimmed significantly. A...