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Yeah, I really am tremendously excited about the new themes. If, as stated by one of the WoTC employees, the Neverwinter Campaign Setting adds even more, we'll soon have a wonderfully solid selection for any given campaign. That said, I hope there are/will be Eberron specific themes coming up...

They're a third pillar of character creation. The idea is that a theme is powers a character may have picked up over their life, transcending race and class. For example, gladiators could be of any race or class, but they would still have certain things in common - therefore gladiator is a...

They're finally giving us a lot of something many people have been asking about, and still people are complaining. Unbelievable.

Looks like more than four articles there to me.

I think themes are really what backgrounds *should* have been.

One thing I'm actually really looking forward to is divine themes - we don't currently have any, since the only themes available are from a setting without living gods.

I am tremendously excited about this. Tremendously.

I've liked everything I've seen of this so far - even the cards. The segments I've read in the WoTC previews have been well-written and enjoyable, despite my total indifference to shadar-kai and so forth. One thing bothers me though. The Keepers. They're exactly the same as the Keepers in...

I'd like to second the call for more Cthulu-eqsue stuff. The Far Realm provides a perfect in-game origin for them, and unlike a lot of published products they can be used with minimal adjustment in any given campaign setting. The more dangerous and awesome the Far Realm seems to be, the more...

They're also using the equivalent of a daily power. Trying to stop them is just cruel.

I'm a bit skeptical about the promises of support for certain under-supported classes, because in the past WoTC has had a very different idea than the community has of what exactly that meant. That said, they specifically mentioned Runepriest and Seeker as undersupported last week (or was it the...

The three 4E books with the most information are: The Plane Below: Secrets of the Elemental Chaos The Plane Above: Secrets of the Astral Sea Manual of the Planes The primordials haven't really been delineated the way you're looking for. They're scattered around a bit - some are in Monster...

Actually, they don't. During a short rest a willing ally can spend a surge to have the vampire regain their bloodied value in hp. They might have some difficulty in combat, but they're just about the most efficient healers there are, between fights.

1) Integrate the Essentials subclasses into their primary classes, like any other build, and allow the selection of class features at the beginning of character creation. As part of this process, allow each character to select an Expertise at level 1. 2) Improve racial powers to be competitive...

Was that the one with the silt runners? It's been pretty widely criticized for being so dangerous, but it fits perfectly into Dark Sun. Problem is it doesn't fit anywhere else - the whole point of Dark Sun is that everything can and will kill you.

I read somewhere that Unearthed Arcana articles don't end up going into the Character Builder. Is that correct, or can we expect to see some of this stuff there?

I sincerely hope not. I don't want to play a "Human Templar Templar" when using themes.

Diseases are in fact in the Compendium. You can set the category to "Disease" and if you search without entering anything, it'll bring up a number of them. Most diseases are boring, though.

First of all, that airship is awesome. Nicely done. Now, on to the meat: 1) Nothing is stopping you from using miniatures you already have, or from using non-WoTC minis. 2) Nothing is forcing you to use Fortune Cards. 3) If you hate vampires, don't allow them in your campaign, or...

Yeah, the big advantage CharOp has is that it is a community - so while virtually nobody there is overall more knowledgeable than the average Joe Gamer, in any given area someone will be. It allows for a degree of "collective specialization" that the devs with their limited numbers could never...