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QFMFT! The name isn't that important a sacred cow that it needs to be kept.

Indeed. Though we should also bear in mind that in 4e, the ability bonuses are higher because there are no penalties. A 10 Wisdom gives a +3 bonus. For for this feat, a high wisdom is nice, it's not neccessary to take the feat in the first place.

I wish the poll had a "maybe" option. I'm going to flip through it in the store before I make my decision. I didn't buy the rules compendium because I don't want 3.5 rules, but I read some of the commentaries in Borders and liked what I saw. If the book has detailed commentaries about the...

That does sound likely, and IMO it's a good thing. Numerical bonuses are boring. We will probably see conditional numerical bonuses, based on powers. Some of the Bo9S maneuvers do things like "make a jump check against a larger opponent and get +4 to hit and +6d6 damage", and I wouldn't be...

That makes a lot of sense. However, with the new emphasis on power sources, I think that instead of a single "spells" bonus we'd have different bonuses for each power source. Warlock Attack: Melee +0, Ranged +1, Arcane +4, Divine +0, Martial +0. Paladin Attack: Melee +4, Ranged +3, Arcane...

I don't really like the "compound-noun" names, especially for significant aspects of the game. I can accept them for subtypes of monsters, if only because it may be hard to come up with lots of variant names otherwise. - Faerie. Or the Otherworld. - Preferably some other name that sounds...

I suspected that there would be a single progression for powers, but I didn't expect one for everything. For powers it makes sense: Your level determines how many powers you have, and you choose them based on your class. "Multiclassing" gives you the ability to choose a numbers of powers from...

Likewise. But don't you mean 3? Elf & Eladrin, and Drow would make 3. I wouldn't want Warforged or half-vampire, because warforged are too specific to Eberron, and we already have one half-evil angsty race in the tieflings. I wouldn't mind seeing Changelings or Shifters. Sure they're...

I wonder how much they paid Neil Gaiman to film his testamonial. Still, I understand why he would like it. He travels so much for promotions and book tours and the like that it would be cumbersome to bring along a few actual books. I like physical books far too much to get an electronic...

I have it, but my GM caps the penalty at -5, and I pretty much always use it as a straight "-5 attack for +10 damage" toggle. It works fine in those circumstances.

In other words, "How dare they actually follow the agreement they made with WotC, instead of breaking it in some sneaky way so they don't get caught"? :\

Ah, I had forgotten about that. I definitely won't be getting it, unless the Dragon material is really good, it's actually downloadable as a pdf or the like, and the price is low enough that it's worth it to just get the "magazines" and not the non-functional software.

I really hope it does. If it brings some new people into the hobby, or enables people to play who would not otherwise find a game in their home town, that's a great thing. IMO it depends on how much it costs, and how good the Dragon/Dungeon material is. I won't be subscribing for the digital...

I definitely agree, and his Fionavar Tapestry probably does meet the OP's definition. It's epic fantasy, and has a fair amount of magic in it. Much more than Lord of the Rings, anyway. I'm just finishing it now, and it's blown me away. The first book (of 3) is called The Summer Tree. You...

I just finished Crooked Little Vein, a hideously twisted book by Warren Ellis. The plot is a little light, and it's basically an excuse for one hilariously bizarre and perverted scenario after another, but it's worth the read. It's like a geeky Irvine Welsh who's read too many conspiracy...

For 98 pages of interesting reading. The same reason why people buy novels and magazines. Clearly, if you never buy books just to read them, then this book isn't for you.

Likewise! My first thought when reading the thread title was "the guy who painted the AE magister and the AE spell treasury cover. Or the guy who painted the panoramic scenes in the PHII, like the ones with the mountain valley with buildings carved into its walls. It turns out they're the...

The slip case release is definitely a good idea. If that wasn't an option, I would probably space out my purchases of the 3 books over a couple months, but now I'll almost definitely buy all 3 at the same time.

I bought a Macbook Pro this summer, and love it. I also have Win XP loaded in a boot camp partition, but only use it for games.

#&!%$*!, it's not Mac compatible! Time to boot up Windows.