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Don't do away with the bard in favor of multiclass warlord/rogue! Don't let 4e be the edition that kills Elan & helps Nale take his stuff! I, too, hope for the bard in the PHB. PHB2? To me that feels like suggesting that they just hold off the MM for a year too -- after all, it's no big deal...

Wrong. What was said was that the player had had an idea for a psion, but that there was no psion class available to play when he came into the playtest. He therefore took the character concept & made it into a wizard, but still called it a psion for flavor -- not because it actually was one (it...

I'm not sure that Roy's player would go for the Leader role, however, since what little we know of that suggests that it is primarily a buffer/healer/party-enabler. If Roy's player had wanted to do that in 3.x, cleric or bard was readily available. Likewise I'm not convinced that Durkon would...

I think we have to distinguish between the combat roles (which is how the terms we've seen were used) & the noncombat or party roles. Roy: Martial Defender. He's the leader of the group, but not a Leader in (what little we know of) the 4e combat sense. Durkon: Divine Leader. Again, this is...

My take on his reaction in the interview was that Warlord was not supposed to have been revealed yet. Because of the screencaps leak, he was able to mention it in a roundabout 'I've heard about this Warlord thing on the internet' way without directly violating his instructions - hence (IMO) the...

Re: the sorceror. I'm not sure that the sorcerer will be the class that killed the warlock & took his stuff; I rather expect that the wizard & sorcerer are both standing over the corpse divvying up the spoils. I predict instead that the sorcerer will kill the warmage & take his stuff. Thus...

What I would like to see (allowing for the most-confirmed classes) is the following: Defender: Fighter (including a berserker tree & an unarmed combat tree), Paladin Leader: Cleric (including a priest of nature tree), Warlord Controller: Wizard, Sorceror (in whatever form) Striker: Rogue...

Didn't they say in the announcement that Beholders would still have 10 eyes?

Three reasons I hope they do NOT go through with flipping saves to being rolled by the attacker: 1) Averaging of damage to foes. If the wizard in the party lobs a fireball into a room of orcs, there's a good chance some will fail their save & go down, reducing the damage the party takes in the...

I disagree, in that I hope they do not say 'if you want to' -- that reads like an option, I would not want to be stuck back with the funky BAB rounding error because of a 'no optional rules' DM. Make it core. Make people do the math (or at least plug their numbers into a calculator, Excel...

Revised predictions: Barbarian: In (mentioned in some article somewhere, although as a point in an analogy & not a playtest blog). Bard: Some features blended into Marshall to make the Warlord, but mostly gone (at least in the 'roguish minstrel jack-of-all-trades' conceptualization). This...

Source? I've seen specific reference that a current core race is leaving, & plenty of speculation that it would be gnome, but I've missed any specific WotC employee mention that it will be the gnome that goes. ... or the monk, or the sorceror, or the druid. (I'm a bard optimist. :) ) Again...

The playtesting notes do not say that psion is essentially a wizard. What they say is that the player had wanted a psion, but since there was no such class ready for playtesting, he was playing a wizard & just calling it a psion (for ingame flavor). Very different situation there.

Erm... May is 4 months after October now? OMG, 4e is changing the RW calendar! :p Psst. It's 'might as well', not 'minus well'. :)

I have to disagree with your assertion that dwarves are the uber class in 3.5. Free feat at first level + bonus skill point every level = almost every char I've played in 3.5 has been human.

Poll already exists in another thread, '4E Class Anti-Survivor' or something like that.

*boggle* I believe your garden door is banging... loudly. (What was the company with those creepy gnome commercials again?)

From the article: I think they'd be hard-pressed to find a better target for this than the bard. I hope that means that bard is not only in, but majorly revamped; the current rogue/sorcerer hybrid is just not unique enough IMO.

My thoughts: The Big 4 archetypes will stay: Fighter (heavily altered), Cleric, Rogue, & Wizard (though probably changed to Mage). Barbarian & Sorcerer still in because the article mentions them (personally hoping that if this is true the sorc will adopt warlock-style casting) Beyond that it...

It does sound cool, if the price is right (I mean, in theory I've already paid for a paper version; now I have to buy it again?). I'd also hope for something similar to the current Core Rules updates, where changes are highlighted (or better yet, have a page with links to changes at the top of...