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The first version appealed to me more. I like the idea of tomes, even if I felt that the categories assigned to them seemed a bit goofy. The imposition of "traditions" as a middle-man layer between categories of spells and the implements feels mechanically clumsy in what should be a...

I also see this as potential to reinforce the notion that wizards like to hole up in their towers. Sure, you can tote around a +3 amulet as your orb, but to do the real heavy lifting scrying, you want to head home and use your +12 palantir.

So, in a thread I was reading sometime last week, I saw some speculation on what the eladrin/elves information we've seen means for settings in which elf subraces are strongly differentiated and the subrace status is deemed important to their relations? FR seems an apt example, with grey, sun...

I like the idea in concept, but in Saga specifically, I end up butting my head up against the skill focus (use the Force) Jedis. UTF is so varied in its uses and reasonably powerful that a d20+10+modifier skill roll is insane. It also tends to promote whining that 1st level Jedi are obligated to...

I don't think this is a bad guess at what some of the development documentation might look like, but I agree with most of the other posters -- I'll be frankly astounded if the PHB character creation chapters reflect this rather than "choose race, choose class. Okay, now that you've chosen those...

Yes, which, while I suppose it makes the poll a more complete representation of the OSes represented here, invalidates the underlying agenda of the poll which ought to be "is the DDI unavailable to you due to the DirectX platform choice?" Anyways... Vista and XP at home on desktops, 2k on the...

That solves the Vaarsuvius question quite neatly...

This is actually a very nice solution, I think. I've always been annoyed that TWF is presented (in 3.x and earlier, as well as MMO's, which are particularly guilty of it) as a style that is used to achieve very high damage. It's not, that's the domain of the two-handed weapon. Dual wielding is a...

Yes. Every NDA for a videogame beta I've ever seen, for about a dozen. It doesn't surprise me in the least that playtests would follow a similar model.

Because of the supply issues in finding non-DirectX programming talent, probably. OpenGL is pretty niche anymore. You know the whole PC argument that goes "but there are no games on Mac..."? Yeah, that has trickle down effects on other 3-D applications, as it means that pretty much nobody in the...

That's kind of what I was thinking. If your party needs a leader who kicks more butt (or you just want to kick more butt while filling your party's leader hole), you go with warlord. If your party kicks sufficient butt already and you want the edge against the legions of the undead, you play a...

Alternating is subtly distracting to me. I was taught the generic "he" and find it adequate. "One" is more than subtly distracting to me, it's blatantly awkward. I'm not adverse to the occasional oddball's attempts to mainstream s/he or what have you (and I find it infinitely preferable to...

Not only should ability scores be randomized, but I believe that there's a lot of fun and interest to be had by limiting a player's choice (to some degree or another) in which rolled stat goes where. I dislike point buys because I find it tends to promote ruts. The player who always plays X...

You've been in a round-by-round combat for 1200 rounds? How many years of weekly playing sessions did this encounter take?

See? This is why. Everybody knows Robin Hood is a rogue.

I hope to see sword and board and dual wielding fitted into their proper role -- as more defensive options vs. the damage-heavy two-hander. Shields in 3.x have never felt quite defensive enough for me. And dual wielding has never been presented as the compromise between the two that it has (to...

This roughly mirrors my personal gaming. I know half-elves suck, but I'm drawn to them anyways (and if DMs actually enforced multiclass experience penalties, they wouldn't suck as much -- but IME, that's one of the first things to get the axe when it comes to house ruling, just for sheer...

If it doesn't involve Belkar killing a scout and taking its stuff, I will be grossly disappointed.

I voted after initial reviews, but my "initial review" is half an hour or so of flip-through in my FLGS, or sufficient preview coverage. Initial previews and glimpses are quite encouraging, but not enough to flat-out buy sight unseen.

Plane-smote?