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Perhaps, but what if I DON'T WANT to play a battlemind or a warthinker or a swordsoul or whatever other class they come up with next. I want to play a fighter, which benefits from his STR bonus. Before, I put my highest stat in STR and CON anyway. Now I'll do the same, and my STR will be 2...

So hold on a sec- I've never gotten a straight answer on this question and I've asked it about a dozen times across many forums: Can you not use feats from the PH1 with Essentials stuff? If the answer is "no" then how can they say it's all 100% compatable? If the answer is yes, some stuff wlll...

Part of the penalty for being a defiler is that the other PCs in the group should almost instantly try to kill your character once they find out that's what you're doing, assuming they were role-playing the setting. I suppose if it was a party of evil characters, that would be something, but...

Okay, so from reading this, I understand 3 things. 1. WotC swears up and down on a stack of bibles that this "isn't 4.5" and that we can keep using everything from PH1, 2, 3, etc "alongside" the Essentials stuff. 2. Humans in essentials have lost a major racial ability (their Defense bonuses)...

So now Dark Sun is out... alas, there are no monsters yet released! Can the clever folks at ENworld convert some of their favorite Dark Sun monsters to 4e?

Thri-Kreens were disappointing to say the least... though a Thri-Kreen monk could be interesting. I think it's just silly that a better way of representing multiple arms was somehow impossible for them- they could have given them instead a racial at-will that was a burst 1 square around them to...

Thanks for the clarification. however, that is still a little upsetting, since those books were marketed to players and not GMs... but since they're uncommon items, it will be the GM who decides which ones you get, since PCs can only choose their own common items, right? Or can you choose...

Can An Essentials dwarf take the feat that gives him proficiency and +2 Damage w/ all hammers & axes (even superior ones) AND get the Essentials dwarven STR bonus? Cause that'd be sweet - but my instincts tell me that they shall beat upon it with the Nerf bat, and there shall be much dwarven...

So I guess then that us dummies who bought the Adventurer's Vault should stack it on the woodpile? Will the existing magic items cease to exist then? This doesn't sound like 4.5... more like 5.0.

Instead of 4.5 I think of it as a "Reverse Compatable 5e". It seems to be so different. I do have some concerns w/ the reverse compatability, though. Dwarves can get a STR bonus... but they also get a feat that gives them proficiency w/ all (even superior) axes and hammers w/ +2 Damage. The...

Now it seems as if Dwarves will be the uber-fighter race. Not only do they take a feat that gives them proficiency w/ crag-hammers and war-axes and +2 damage with them, they also get a STR bonus! Of course, I suppose the fix will be "any dwarven feats that are from 4e cannot be used with...

It's been my experience that the 4e pregen characters are pretty much always designed to be sucktastic (aka "not optimized"). Combine the wrong race / class together to handicap the character and "prove" what a great role-player you are (or in this case "prove" that certain races/classes can go...

Are goliaths naturally psionic?

BOOOOOO!!!!!!! I liked everything I was reading right up until that point! It would be like saying "halflings, which are also known as gnomes, are riverboat nomads who love to wear shoes..." when they released 4.0. They could save themselves some effort to actually make a gnome race &...

Basic Action Games is both honored and humbled to be on such an illustrious list! Thanks to everybody who made this possible, and congratulations to the fellow nominees.

Basic Action Games is honored (and humbled) to be nominated alongside so many great designers.

Arg. Well, I'll happily play those classes/builds when I get the chance.

So "Not 4.5" (aka DnD "Essentials") is coming out pretty soon. Despite the (official) name, it's completely optional, just like maps & miniatures are. What are people's thoughts on it? Personally I think getting rid of Daily powers is a great idea, and something they should have done in the...

Well, I first designed BASH! when I was working for an afterschool program for the purpose of being a good game to run with the kids. And I could also tell parents the game was educational, because the core mechanic involved simple multiplying. There is also a colorful "Dice Roll Chart" on the...

Well my mom got an iPad, and after playing around on it for a few hours (including writing this message) I am about 90% sure I will be getting one. Seems like it will be great not only for reading PDFs on, but for the apps that will let you run games on it, or use it as a character sheet that...