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It depends on how good the raid leader is at tactics and if the PC's all have their tier 6 gear yet or not. ;)

Front-loading benefits people who want to start a long-term campaign as soon as possible, provided they have the cash to buy all the books. That gives them access to all the classes and options right from the get-go. Some folks are irked that iconic classes such as the druid are being held...

What makes you attribute that bonus power to the half-elf rather than to the choice of fey pact warlock? When I first saw it, my thought was that it was a power tied to fey pact. Presumably the other pacts would have different abilities associated with them. Sure, it's a wizard spell, but it...

But what if they put the listing for 10' poles in the Forgotten Realms Players Guide? Then you'd have to buy that to have a 10' pole to not touch the book with... ;)

I'm tempted to leave Torrent out as well. She sticks with the group quite a long time otherwise, and it sounds like there are plenty of NPC's hanging around with the party in later adventures. What are you supposed to do with some of those people while you are off fighting baddies? I read a...

I'm interested in a 4E version of WotBS, presuming my group agrees to go with 4E after our play test. I have been reading the modules and thinking of what would need to be altered. The entire issue with teleportation seems to be a biggie to me. From what we've heard, long range teleports will...

:D My craft: crochet skill would be a bit challenged attempting to make a waterproof tent. But bring me some ettercap silk and an elven spinning wheel to make the yarn and I'll get right on that. Good luck with Red Hand of Doom. We're still trying to save the world from being overthrown by...

I'm not. Genasi? Isn't that a brand of beer? ;) Honestly I have no clue what they are. Drow? Ugh. I hate most of the baggage that goes along with drow; especially the FR drow. We don't have any drow or underdark stuff in our current game, and no one has complained about the lack. Im...

Likewise. I have no use for Forgotten Realms, and will not be purchasing the books. Yet my son who plays in our current campaign really would like to make a swordmage for the 4th edition game we hope to start. I really hope that they provide the rules for this class someplace other than...

Two players in my group bring crochet projects to work on during sessions. I'm one of them :p What I am looking forward to are some of the features that should make DM'ing the game easier. Traps, monsters, and other challenges ready to play right out of the books. Less prep work required...

At this point there's not much time for them to produce a 4E product by GenCon even if WotC did drop the GSL over at their place earlier today. I'm not sure anyone is going to get much benefit from early buy-in. It's less than three months until the game is released and everyone can get...

One of our players (the one who's already drawing parallels between 4E and MMO's) is the developer of what may be the most popular MUD client out there (zMUD). So he knows just a bit about MUDs and MMO's. :D Our group has agreed to play test the game after our current campaign finishes up, but...

Of our current D&D group, 4 out of 6 of us have played WoW and other MMORPG's. We do find ourselves sometimes using basic MMO terms like "tanking", "mobs" and even "DPS". I describe my melee-oriented highly maneuverable rogue/psychic warrior as "melee DPS" sometimes (I also call her my...

QFT. Moving someone around in combat is easy to do in real life. It's hard to resist being moved backwards, or forced to circle. 3.5 was unrealistic in the way it made simple maneuvers like a shield bash something ineffective that you wouldn't do very often because of the special case rules...

That reminds me of SCA combats that I've seen when you have two very mobile fighters. The fight winds up traveling all over the place as one guy backpedals away, and tries to get off quick shots, while the other keeps moving forward trying to land a solid hit. Light taps don't count - you have...

Thanks for writing up your playtest report. I enjoyed reading it. It seems running a fight won't be too bad given that we've seen quite a few rules for that, but we have less info to use for the social encounters and skill checks. So are your players convinced that 4E is the way to go or do...

I'd rather have some medium number of monsters with stat blocks for several variants than 500 distinct monsters with unpronounceable names, weak or non-existent ties to lore, and overall concepts that amount to "It's another fish-dude". Today's special monster the Xxgr'lkg is brought to you by...

I agree. Just call them all murlocs and be done with it. ;)

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I don't know what they will include in the MM in the way of classic monsters that could also appear as templates, such as the vampire or lich. What I'm hoping to see is the default "Human lich" in the MM, with templates for making other creatures into a lich in the DMG. Likewise with vampires...