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I think as long as they release a new edition every time a significant portion of the playerbase is unhappy with the current ruleset, it is in their best interest to introduce a new edition before too many players jump ship for a new RPG ruleset altogether. I could see some other company coming...

Yes. Yes I am. I happen to have each one of these songs on my playlist right now. Now excuse me, I need to put another load of parachute pants in the dryer. :-P

Why would they need DRM at all? It looked like everything would be online, and you register which books you own with "Book-Keys" much like a CD key in an online game today. I'm more concerned their online tools are IE Only. Registering our 4e books online will have the side effect of making 2nd...

Whats stopping you from producing it anyway? It might be better than 4e. Since 4e is going to be OGL, you can incorporate the good stuff from 4th edition once its released too.

Here is my new edition emotional chart: 2e to 3e: Super Excited. Got me back into the game. I bought every book. 3e to 3.5e: Incredibly mad. I didn't really adopt 3.5 until 2005 or so. 3.5e to 4e: ? I'm not familiar with Iron Heroes or SW: Saga Edition. I have heard nothing but good things...

Ok, cats out of the bag. I am buying D&D from Hasbro. In 2 years a new edition will come out which fixes all of my pet peeves with the rules. -- Richard Rich III.

Powergaming and roleplaying are completely separate concepts. You can have a player who is good at both, just as much as you can have a player that is good at neither. What is more important is that the DM offers a game that is both fun and challenging for the players, regardless if they are...

I can't stand 3e without Minis. I have started playing in two separate games where the DM didn't like to use Minis and I didn't play long the campaign partially because of it. Half the fun I have with D&D is the tactical combat (The other half is role-play and high adventure). It seems like...

Fires of Purity is in the Spell Compendium. I don't know where it appeared originally. It does +1 Damage/Caster Level to melee attacks. Personally I wouldnt allow it to be used with Whirling Blade, but we have no problem with Wraithstrike in our games, so its all up to you. Here is how my...

When discussing what is "broken" it is important to remember its all relative to PC power. If one Player has created a massively powerful character, and everyone else is playing Bards, the super muchkin certainly seems broken. But if every PC is equally optimized, they suddenly don't seem as...

I'm not so much advocating that every school does some sort of harm on targets, but that every school should be treated equally, and be equally effective in combat situations. Divination could have spells like this: Lesser Insight, Duration 1 Round/Level, Benefit: The spell lets you see a few...

Yes, these have been done to death, but I like reading other people insights and pet peeves. -- No more Divination as the Red Headed Stepchild of spell schools. Its equal to all others. Seriously, if you can see into the future, why arn't there dozens of really cool combat spells? -- No More...

A very good system is to have each player after the session ends to email the DM his accomplishements (Combat, Role playing, diplomacy, etc) and his version* of the events so far. The DM then awards XP based on how well the PC told their story. The DM can then take choice lines from these...

Correct me if I am wrong, but I thought Arcane Strike was a swift action as well. Since Arcane Strike was written before Swift Actions were in the rules, so when Swift Actions were created the Arcane Strike feat became a swift action instead of a free action? Also, I thought Fires of Purity...

Sundering, IMHO, is the biggest Rat-Bastard (tm) thing a DM can do to a PC. Its partially a problem with mechanics and partially a problem party economics. PCs have a strong disincentive to sunder a weapon, where as an evil DM has no such disincentive. Its a problem with mechanics because quite...

Yeah, it is definitely weak compared to most 2nd level spells. And if we are only talking about Gish builds, it still weak compared to wraithstrike. But Wraithstrike is melee only. At high levels, Wraithstrike and Whirling Blade are the only 2nd level spells I keep memorized. All other good 2nd...

My new favorite Fighter/Mage build is the Swiftblade. Yeah you use some caster levels, but the ability to spring in and out of combat more than makes up for it, along with abilities that just cant be replicated with spell/feat combos. The Swiftblade is the king of mobility, and for the usually...

Right, of course they are going to make an effort not to alter the "Good" people, but people make mistakes. Through negligence (or malice) a good man is turned into an evil one. The whole idea of the plot point is that it does not happen often, but when it does its one big "oops".

The warden can keep putting the helmet on the convict until the magic takes effect, and for extra fun, you can have a special helmet created that does not lose its properties upon a successful alteration of alignment. When governments are involved, material cost suddenly becomes harder to...

1) It could be that the released schedule shown is incomplete. 2) Personally, I feel we have been flooded in Crunch for the last couple years. WotC could be taking a step back to figure out where to go next.They can't release new classes/feats forever. 3) Books that would normally be released...