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I was under the impression that the ToM Binder was being subsumed in the new Warlock class, which sounds very very good to me. It's sounding more like the core fighter is not going to be able to handle the swashbuckler concept, in which case, I vote swashbuckler. No, the swashbuckler is not a...

I am starting to wonder if they're planning on making money with their Digital Initiative thing by selling a feature that lets people to do global find-and-replaces on their rulebooks.

The number one integral thing I don't like about AD&D is the way attributes work. They're inconsistent, confusing, they're mean, they cause all sorts of gyrations in gameplay. Much much prefer 3e stats. Multiclassing/ dual-classing is a second, but not as pervasive. Most of the other stuff...

I really hope they keep to their word on this, because the notion of adventurers as investors in their own optimized power curve is completely repellent to me, and in 3.x has caused me to go through great contortions in campaign setting and house rules to try to curb that aspect of the game...

Bind Vestige/Improved Bind Vestige/Practiced Binder seemed like very compelling feats for epic E6 characters, especially noncasters, when I looked at them. They provide so much flexibility and binder powers are generally oriented towards mixing it up, or else subbing for another class in a...

Please god please god let this "invest in" business be irrelevant* in 4th edition. I really hope they're keeping to their word about the item-christmas-tree issue. * I don't have a problem with "you need to get a tincture from the sage in the swamp that will lower the stone guardian's...

Eh, if that's a dryad, I won't use it. There are quite enough humanoid plant concepts to fill all my needs. If I need a feral plant spirit to jump the PCs, it's not gonna look like a humanoid. And if I need what I think of as a dryad, it won't look like that. I am not a fan of dryad-class...

I'd like to see spears get some love, too, but they're already a solid battlefield weapon in 3e. That is, if you are talking power for the gold piece. An army of 1st-level warriors, I'd give them spears over swords any day – the money saved can go to armor, or more warriors, and spears are...

4) Don't dump Charisma You wanna dump Charisma. Don't dump Charisma. Ain't nobody wanna see your 8-Charisma-having-@#$ at the royal ball anyway. Make it a 12, or a 10 if you really gotta, and work those circumstance modifiers by taking a bath for a change! Amazing what that soap ish will do...

I agree with this – your clockwork-type automatons should absolutely, positively be subject to crits. It would be interesting if there was a property that provided resistance to power attacks, assuming that is something that's a part of 4E, just to counterbalance resistance to crits/ sneak...

What you are looking at is a circumstance modifier... the circumstance modifier of love. * heads off to pen a romantic comedy Story Hour *

I am going to be positive-to-lukewarm about 4E until I see the books. Pro: - I don't think I'll miss the Vancian casting one bit. - Ways to avoid having clergymen truck along with all adventuring parties ever everywhere = happy. - The flow of the game (well, the fight scenes) in those playtest...

I do not want weapon simplification or abstraction in this game. Other games, sure, this game, no. Lovingly detailed statistics for pieces of sharp metal is one of the things I like most about it. Ditched it in Red Box D&D as soon as I read the options, never looked back.

Getting the kids apprenticed with a good wizard, that'll set ya back some gold pieces.

Most of this sounds pretty good to me, though broadsword -> longsword and machete -> shortsword with cutting damage – honestly though I think having most swords only doing cutting or stabbing damage in terms of DR is wonky, and a subject of a houserule of mine – if it becomes super clear that...

I am fine with tactics and morale information being placed in the monster descriptions... there's enough variety possible that it really should comprise half the description, at least, for a lot of monsters, and "what's it like to fight one?" provides better flavor than history, ecology, etc. I...

Archers were pretty solid in late 1e/(early?) 2e with twice the attacks of a melee fighter early on and weapon spec bonuses that could get pretty big in certain circumstances...

Yeah and theoretically monk could just be rolled into fighter entirely, with special "prestige paths" or whatever they're calling it now to cover some of the superhuman stuff, I'd be fine with that actually, it's all kind of fuzzy. Though piling on talent trees could become overly burdensome at...

No it doesn't, morale failure is much more flexible (unless, of course, it's not) – it doesn't dictate where exactly that creature has to run to, it doesn't have to dictate how it runs, whether it surrenders, etc., whereas a knight's challenge dictates many creatures' attack paths. That said I...

The reason "swordsaint" does not work (any better than monk) is that it a) implies specialization in swords (as btw does the old "swordsage") and b) coupled with 4E's "swordmage" implies that they are a divinely-powered front-line fighter "defender" or whatever. The reason "weapon master"...