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Yup, you are right this was the Dave Noonan podcast back in June of 2008. This would have been the month just prior to GenCon 2008. Dungeons & Dragons Roleplaying Game Official Home Page - Article (A Paragon Tier Adventure) I'm not familiar with the Acquisitions Incorporated podcasts but will...

I get the roleplayingtips.com weekly newsletter/e-zine(I have for years now). This last week, the author described his receiving the playtest material, using the material to make up characters, and trying out the adventure material provided (not sure which roll out of the playtest this would be...

I would reverse the thinking on the Cleric verses the Priest. The base 'heal bot' cleric does not need a spell selection. This is the 1e Cleric that wields a mace and it a pocket fighter (interestingly more of a gish then most wizard attempts at the gish). The cleric would have a few...

Based on WotC past playtesting, I would vote against WotC providing a 'high level' game at launch. The 3e and 4e game suffered from too much playtest at low levels resulting in problems even as low as level 5 in 4e (launch 4e already showed problems with grind at this level). I'd rather them...

From the article, I see a discussion going on of several different magical classes. 1> Simplified Wizard that is all power selections (all Wizard Marks). You choose Magic Missile and can do it all the time and it gets bigger and better as you level. A 3e Warlock or Sorcerer taken to the...

The problem that I have with saying at level X you can have ability Y is that it takes the 'fun' out of magical. It also limits the DM with an artificial limit. There have been plenty of fantasy worlds in game and story where flying is part of a low level story or a natural ability of some...

Teleport of 40' seems like nothing until you think of all the fight problems you can avoid. Bridge over a chasam? Who needs a bridge? Slide that drops you off the edge of a cliff? Teleport before you hit ground to safety. Evil villian standing on a ledge above you? You're right beside...

I think that the trouble WotC has with doing things like the polls and communicating with the audience has more to do with forces above them. They live in the Hasbro world with Hasbro lawyers directing the overall limits of what they can and can not do. They understand the value of...

Flight is fine if you're not on a grid but in 3e and earlier the distance of flight is often better than a double move of land speed. It takes a big table to often do a flying battle and some good management skills. 4e was different in handling flight as it often did not increase your speed...

The stated initial goal of 5e is to cover all the classes that have been printed in the initial core books of each game edition (with the exception of the race classes like Hobbit, Dwarf, and Elf ~ And yes, I know they are now called Halflings but that came after the Tolkein lawsuit). That...

I like how PF coded into their 'fighter' certain basic benefits that fit a certain profile. The advanced player's guide then took those basic benefits and created a series of 'specialists' that take those points and substitute in different abilities to allow a more dedicated specialist. You...

You can not apply today's logic to several decades removed business decisions. At the time of 1st ed shift to 2nd ed there were some very strong market forces in parent groups that thought DnD meant satanic worshiping cultists that were going to corrupt the world. The whole RPG movement and...

Last night I was running PF and I used a reworked Carrion Crawler. I reworked the paralysis effect to be a reduction of 5' off their speed for every tentacle that hit and the player failed the fortitude save. If a person reached 0' of movement then they would be paralyzed for 10 min. A single...

There are a number of issues with fighters and their 'history' in DnD; especially from a mechanical design consideration. 1> Before deciding on the number of attacks in a round, we should decide on how long a combat round will be. Will 5e be using the 6s combat round, the 1 min combat round...

When you think of the rules, you should not just think of the rules available on the 'first' day but think of rules that will be produced to supplement those rules. How many purchases of $5 to $10 would you make for say an additional 20 to 30 pages of rules? If I was selling the product line...

I voted for one book since it will hopefully be pdf'd either by WotC or another group. One place that I can go and search for stuff is far more valuable then having to hunt through three different books for information. Given the need for WotC to produce materials on a regular basis (you don't...

DnD has it's own brand of weird that it has created over the years. Classic monsters like the Beholder and Mind Flayer are DnD's weird. You won't find others like it in other games (and Hasbro intends to keep it that way). DnD loss much of its weird when it had to bend to 'Satan Worship'...

In nature, many of the females are bigger and stronger than the males. If they brought in gender bias then they should have Dwarven Females have an upper limit higher than Dwarven Males. Maybe Ogres or Giants in the new edition could really be Dwarven Females. This could explain the Dwarven...

The trouble that I have with the mix of caster and non-caster or two different styles of caster has to due with reward for dedication. If I was a player that struggled with lower armour, lower hit points, and made it through great trials to the upper levels then I would feel that I earned the...

If you look at the 4e Monster Vault then you will see many examples of modularity in practice. Look at the Basilisk. There are five different examples of Basilisk with basically Bite and Gaze. The rules for the Gaze attack on each of the Basilisk is really what changes and it would be fairly...