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Hehe, in our 2e games, no one played humies ('cept the occasional Paladin). In our 3.x games, almost everyone plays humans. :) That bonus feat is just too sweet, especially for those trying to quallie for PrCs.

How did those who have the book get it...? No one in my city has it, and everyone I ask tells me it doesn't come out until Tuesday...

Definitely, each group wiill set the tenor as to their own RP preferences. I *am* hoping though, that the new social interaction/encounter rules will be dynamic, interesting, and fun.

I've said this before, but my vote is for making it harder for PCs to die, but making death more final. Just as PCs (and NPCs) shouldn't die from one bad roll, so too they shouldn't be able to come back to life every morning...

I totally agree. I hate hate hate it when a DM fudges to save my character, especially when s/he is so clumsy at it as to be obvious. The players have to feel like there's something at stake. Actually, I think that dying *is* fun, and I'm one of those players who will rarely take a...

That's a good point... You always come across the all powerful creature who demands that you give up a magic item to let you pass (give you the map, release his prisoner, etc). Where are the cowardly, weakish monsters who give YOU magic items to not kill THEM? :)

Whoa, dude! That would be awesome! Can I sign up now?!!!1111

The laziness argument is mostly about the Filcher, whose only role seems to be as a device which allows a DM to steal PCs magic items, plot pieces (contracts, deeds, etc). Its also been my experience that DMs frequently use level draining and Rust Monster like creatures as after-the-fact...

I've always wanted to just tell my players "OK, you all level!" when appropriate, but the 3.x system of magic item creation made it a bit of a bother (because we almost always have characters making things.) Since the new (4e) creation system is not based on balanced XP costs, I will do this if...

No, because then the debate would have to occur on the merits of both side's arguments. Its easier and more fun to make overblown analogies that have no basis in what the argument is even about. :)

QFT, sir. There are plenty of challenging, scary monsters (demons, devils, dragons) without having to fall back on poorly designed creatures with strictly METAGAME abilities like level-drain. Creatures like this, along with the Rust Monster, and my least favorite, the Ethereal Filcher, have no...

It really drives me crazy when people equate a desire to remove the 'unfun' elements of a game with the need to be babied with instant gratification. This is a perjorative, straw-man argument. The 'Un-Fun' elements I would like removed are these: 1) Unnecessary bookkeeping: Get rid of...

Its nice when people who leave a community issue a final post, thanking others for their passion and dedication to a shared interest. Leaving all embittered, and liking community members to conforming sheep or reactionary attack dogs seems kind of immature and unnecessary. :confused:

Luckily, the speed of level advancement is completely controlled by the DM. While I use the DMG table to set my baseline, I feel no qualms about bumping that number up or slowing it down when appropriate. I've done that for all previous editions, and will, I'm sure, continue it for 4e. I will...

I don't have a link handy, but I had thought that I read that the character vault through gleemax would be free to all... If that's so, there must be some way of posting characters up there, maybe a stripped down version of the generator will be free...?

Some way to handle grappling that allows movement of one's foe would be really nice.... I always get requests for that.

Spot-on here. The better a ruleset is, the more it will allow vastly different campaign styles and character choices, I says.

Too true, I'm afraid. The only campaigns I've ever played in that the DMs used 'realism' to modify costs of things only ever made them more expensive than the books indicate. Somehow nothing ever becomes less so (and inflation in these cases was never extended to starting gold, or treasure...

I like the 3.5 weapon sizes, and while I'm generally in favor of K.I.S.S. design, I hope that they're retained. One of the things that drove me crazy about 3.0 was naming weapons for increasingly larger creatures. What do we call the equivalent of a longsword for a gargantuan creature...

This is exactly what started happening in the Eberron campaign I played in. I'm in favor of PCs having a small, capped number of them that refresh either per day or (better in my mind) per session.