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People have complained about the various and sundry problems of the Vancian system, especially as regards Wizards, for as long as it has existed. Various companies have published alternatives too the Vancian system for some time because of that. Even in 2nd edition skills and powers there...

Low level wizards have no choice. If you only have 3 or 4 spell slots, they are going to go quick. And thats what the designers are apparently shooting for...giving a wizard magic-related resources apart from just fire and forget spells. I've seen all your going on about crossbows and melee...

Lord I hope its not *completely* moot.

Well, as far as the basics of the system, Arcana Evolved pretty much has it down for me. The Magister is what I've always felt the Wizard should be. The only things I dont like are a few of Monte Cook's ideas about balance and flavour, the lack of good and evil spells (well, they are still...

The rules should work around the players and DM, not the other way around.

I disagree. Both that nothing else could fill the "niches" a Cleric does...or that anything even needs too. I have personally never understood the supposed need for a heavy duty healer class. And concept wise, there is little basis for the "priest" concept as its own class...its more of a...

As I've mentioned in other threads, I hope that the "power source" thing will be kept firmly in the realm of metagaming shorthand, used to give a general idea of how characters can do the things they do. I dont want to see the concept of power sources equal or eclipse the main concepts...

It would annoy me a bit. I'd prefer if most or all of the long time base classes remained so (Ranger, Druid, Bard, Paladin in particular.) Barbarian however (or Berserker or whatever) seems like it would be better as simply a fighter or ranger focus or "build type" or what have you. But I feel...

I am begining to have a few doubts about this conceptually. I hope they dont run TOO rampant with the per-whatever-time-period abilities. Generally, magic and magic use, in fiction etc, behaves like an energy or power source, with the limitation being that you run out. Having a wizard only be...

It sounds as though fighters will definitely be the class with the most choices and options in the realm of physical combat. Apparently a lot of the specifics will be tied to what weapon(s) the fighter chooses to focus on. Yes, scaling back or remove the ability of mainly the Cleric to...

Lord I hope not.

Lord I hope not.

In D&D Good and Evil are states of being which can make a person or thing subject to particular magical effects, which I am fine with. I don't think "law" and "chaos" should have the same effect. Also within D&D (and within the real world) Good and Evil are overall, widely accepted concepts...

Not to sound ignorant, even though thats what I am in this case, but what's a swordsage, and what is Bo9S?

To be honest, I'm not even entirely sure why I am even taking part in discussion of 4e for two reasons. One, I dont really play pen and paper at all anymore due to the legistical issues (although the online gaming support mentioned for 4e could make a difference in that) and two, I'm not sure I...

I also agree that True Seeing and Mind Blank are a bit of a shaft to Illusionists and Enchanters (and any other character or being who uses a lot of that type of magic.) The most obvious solution would be requiring a check of some kind. Or perhaps breaking the spells into several spells of...

Well, I do hope that many things will still have round/minute/hour etc durations, and I do worry a little about trying to have a set duration and/or definition for "encounter", but overall it all sounds interesting.

I disagree. We heard some things that were wrong with 3.0 before 3.5 and the same for 3.5 pre 4e.

You may very well be right about that. However, I have an idea that such classes will still "draw off" multiple "power sources"

Thats a lot of what this game, and most of what this forum is about. The game itself is constantly being changed by the designers, and people are constantly changing their own games with house rules. There are spells in D&D that simply arent balanced with the rest of the system. There are...