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I've updated my post to make my point a bit clearer...

Here I was thinking "They should get the people who wrote Exalted to think up cool names for them!" Memory, she is fickle...

"Heironeous" has been sanctified by immemorial tradition, reaching back almost 30 years.(*) I figure if other posters can whine endlessly about tiny rule changes then there's a whole lot of complaining about nomenclature available for me. (*): this is sarcasm.

Much better. I was thinking "Fomorian Deeps", but it's too specific.

And you'd be right. Underdark is down there with "Magic-User."

It's the word "Feydark" I don't like, not the concept. As a realm for adventure, it sounds much more interesting that the Underdark (OK, another non-evocative word...) I didn't. Please don't quote my post and then follow up with replies to someone else. It's rude.

You were lucky, I was thinking of complaining about that in the OP. I mean, it's serviceable, but it hardly inspires a vision of fantastic realms.

There's an article up on DDI all about the 4e Fomorian kingdoms. No crunch I can see, but lots of nice colour IMO.

No, that seems like a pretty good summary. I think that adding new classes will be a fairly major event in 4e, one we won't see as often as in 3e. I'm guessing (based on the sample Wizard spells) that each class in the PHB has about 10-15 pages of rules material, mainly in the form of their...

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Fear: Complexity! What I've seen doesn't look as much simpler as I hoped, especially tracking status effect and bonuses. Fear: Tedium! "I hit" has been the standard for 1st level fighters; with the slow increase in powers known, for how many levels will 4th ed characters have only a couple of...

Here's a novel thought: it's not the job of the DM to fix bad game design. If the PHB has a lot of armor types that no one would choose to use after level 4, that's the designer wasting space in the core rules.

Large elemental humanoid (fire)?

And that's the kicker for me: a lot of published 3e encounters were a lot more than CR+1, since CR+1 encounters are usually a bit dull, but really CR+3 or so. The players usually did all the buffs so they could face one of these encounters. You're right that it can sometimes mean very little...

Dave Noonan has posted on the fate of his 4e Eberron game: I think he underestimates what could happen in 3.5 if a party accidentally combines two encounters though.

We'll probably see a "return to" module, but I'd rather not see them. I prefer new material to nostalgia.

I just had a look at a few bowhunting websites and the bowhunting article on wikipedia, and they seem to put effective range at about 20-25 yards, with 40 yards being the outside. Does anyone here have experience with hunting with the bow?

I played a whisper gnome for the same reason - great stats. They're hardly a great example of gnome flavour though. My guess is that the Tiefling and the Gnome actually showed us some of the 4e gnome flavour. The eladrin are the beautiful aristocratic fey, the gnomes are the mad trickster fey...

This is why I have trouble taking the "4e has turned D&D into a tactical boardgame" argument seriously. Every element that requires a battle mat is already present in 3e. Now, if people were saying "3e turned D&D into a tactical boardgame", I'd have to at least partially agree. In the groups I...

Humans seem to get +1 to defences, but we can't tell if it comes from Human Perseverance or it's a human racial ability. The cleric has no racial abilities listed, and just the one bonus feat. There must be some human racial abilities bundled into the stats.