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True, but that was a Solo creature, and probably a very high level opponent.

In the threads about the pit fiend, and the article a while ago about paladin smite powers, many people commented on how the the damage looked. "1d6+11+5 for a 26th level monster, pathetic!" I strongly suspect that the hit point 'scale' has changed across the board in 3e. In the last D&D...

I haven't read Mistborn yet, but his first novel, Elantris, was one of the best fantasy novels I've read in ages.

It could even be an item that gives a temporary direct bonus to, say, Strength checks and melee damage. There are a few items like that in the magic item compendium, and it doesn't cause the same problems as stat-boosting enhancement items.

That's great to hear! I hope that at some point Wizards will publish explicit guidelines for what to do, rather than leaving it for DMs to figure out (even if it is relatively easy to figure out). It would make a great optional rule sidebar for a DMG or an Insider article.

That seems exactly right. I wish they'd gone further though, and gotten rid of all the plusses. Magic swords and armor can still be just as fun to have without plusses. I can deal though, because it's a hundred times better than in 3e. At the very least, I hope they'll give explicit...

Slaughterhouse Five, by Kurt Vonnegut. I'm also reading Undaunted Courage, a book about the Lewis and Clark expedition, by Stephen Ambrose.

Definitely not a feat. In the feats article, the designers said that 4e feats don't give action options. Feats give static bonuses or abilities, not new options that characters can choose to use on their turns.

Agreed. Rob Inglis also did fantastic versions of the first two Earthsea books, but they're unfortunately not available on CD or digital format. The set of the seven Narnia books that came out a couple years ago is also excellent. Each book is read by a different author, and they include such...

Where did you get that from? We've been told that all classes are effective in combat, but nowhere has it been said that classes don't have non-combat abilities anymore. I think you may have read the hints saying that fighters can get social abilities through feats to mean that characters only...

What I loved about it was that it wasn't dull "pseudo" European, but much closer to actual dark ages / medieval European history, with the myth turned up to 11. IMO TSR made a mistake by marketing it as a "medieval rulership mini-game," rather than the mythological and interesting historical...

I think he means that all rolls will be on the same scale. In 3e, a DC 25 is fairly easy for a skill roll, slightly harder for an attack roll, and very difficult for a saving throw. From the look of things, in 4e it'll be the same difficulty for all types of rolls. In 4e, it looks like all...

Nice article, but it's the art that really impressed me. Great design, very evocative and cool, and executed in an interesting style, not the cartoony figures floating in the void of 3e art.

The monster manual is going to have PC race writeups of several races, including gnomes. I would be very surprised if the MM1 didn't have PC race writeups for all the Eberron races (except maybe Kalashtar).

It was either in the introduction to the races section, or at the end, in the miscellaneous races section. It was in the context of a discussion of ECL.

The primal blaster sounds more like a paragon path for the ranger than a class of its own. As it's own class, it's much too close to the ranger, and even if it has the flavor and powers that you described, that could (probably) be accomplished through a paragon path. The barbarian could be...

The R&C book strongly implies that barbarians, when they're released in the PH 2, will be of the same power source as druids, not martial. I'm assuming this will be a Nature power source. The barbarian is clearly a defender. The druid is less clear: its 3e boom spells make it seem like a...

My theory is that all the new classes will be introduced in the Player's Handbook 2, 3, 4, etc. Each PH will have a bunch of brand new classes and races in it, with fully self-contained powers lists for each. That way, when you play a druid, you only need to bring the PH 2 to reference all...

The wizard information posted from R&C matches the old website article more than the revised one. R&C talks about matching certain types of effects with each implement, while in the revised one, implements were more like flavorful addition to the 6 named wizard schools.