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u can't evn spell l33+sp34k, n00b!!!1! lolz

I voted ECS, because I don't feel there is a strong enough tradition of golems as fantasy characters to justify them in PHB1 (don't tell the Tin Woodman, or I could lose my 'Friend of Dorothy' card :p ), & because I have concerns about their strength relative to other core races (an admittedly...

From what I've read, I believe it's going to be replaced with simple XP. It seems that XP is going to be a flat number assigned to each monster, not a variable adjusted by level & number of monsters & total rainfall in Spain over the last month & all that mess -- just monster A = B XP. To use...

I'll way-more-than-second chase rules, vehicular (particularly naval) combat, monster-climbing, & mid-scale battles. I'd also like to see core core weapon groups (which we might get, I hope), & at least a sidebar on different armors varying in effectiveness vs. different damage types (though I...

The option I need does not exist - more realistic but not more complicated. I think the current rules are fine for simplicity (though I could live with a simpler system), but have issues with the amount of weight a character can supposedly manage at higher STR scores (too high IMO).

You are obviously not a birder. I can tell you from my own RW experience in birding that yes, you can indeed get better at perception - both visual & auditory. Learning where to look (most likely places for things to be), what to look for (pattern recognition), & how to look (a soft-focus...

Oh, I think that multiclassing 3/4 BAB melee types can give you a good run for the money on that one. If your character concept involves one level in each of a few 3/4 BAB classes, there are enough of those around now that you can get pretty high up before you even hit BAB of 1 - which is sad...

Funny, I chose Warlord, simply because I have no idea what it will be like yet. :) This sounds exactly like the only cleric I've ever played, a priest of the campaign-specific god of war & fate. He believed that healing was only to be used on those who had proven their worth by surviving a...

My hope is that they do away w/ favored class. I would like them to then have whatever special abilities are gained by a race be clearly favorable to a <race> of a particular class, but nothing to preclude one from going another route. In such a system, your halfling wizard might not get much...

Fireball Magic Missile Cure Light Wounds (most seem to agree on those) Web/Entangle (different spells, but similar functionality; drop one if it seems too much like cheating to get an extra in) Magic Mouth (oldschool) Explosive Runes (/nod to OotS) Detect Magic (duh)

What if we just turn this around? If you want a sorcerer w/o songs, play a bard emphasizing the spell-casting tree & don't take Perform ranks. If you want a fighter, play a bard focusing on the combat tree & don't take Perform ranks. If you want a 'warlord', play a bard, use bardic inspiration a...

Hrm. 47 views (at the time I write this), no responses. If anyone's holding back waiting to see if enough interest grows to make it worth responding, consider that there have been a couple of posters who expressed interest in this thread when I posted at the WotC site -- so the beginnings of a...

And give up on Domnanatrix? or Domna Peringona? Bah.

Personally I'd word that as: 'the Warlord shows a high probability of being in as it's being used in a playtest. The most recent information on the Warlord shows it as a class at first level. As with most everything else known about 4e, both of these situations could be changed prior to...

They haven't said (that I've seen). Could be done through multiclassing, of course. From this & the new playtest, it's looking more & more like the classes mentioned in that Gamer Zero interview in relation to roles (Defender = Fighter & Paladin, Leader = Cleric & Warlord, Controller = Wizard...

Did they use Elan as the iconic... sec, that's my phone ringing. *whispered conversation* 'so the playtest NDA is still in effect? even though the PHB is published? ugh, fine, whatever.' *sigh* Ah-hem. Nevermind.

Does that mean we have a bigger 4e-ness? *groan*

As opposed to horses that conduct combat on a fencing mat or wearing magnetically polarized horseshoes? "Whoa, Nelly, we can't turn in place during combat! Why, that's just crazy talk, ya fool horse! Hrm, I think I just thought of a koan. How does one execute a roundhouse kick in a game using...

Facing not only adds more complexity, it also shifts the balance of value of rules that already exist. Example: Cleave. Without facing, you just take a swing at another adjacent foe. With facing, you have to worry about where that foe is, thus lessening Cleave's value by the additional of a...

I think another thing to keep in mind is the way encounter XP will work. This may mean that traps are statted out with flat XP/trap difficulty, & then can easily be added to encounters: "Let's see, I need an 8k XP encounter... hrm, 3 Dire x's = 6750, toss in Y trap at 1250 & we're golden!"