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I don't know, Voss. They have stated that there will not be a time advance, so all of the work will have to be done through retcon. Is this better or worse for the setting? I sure don't know.

This sort of thing, while I don't dislike it, will have some serious retcon repercussions in Eberron. How do you have Artficers, Cannith Wand Adepts, and stories of magewrights being the heavy artillery in the Last War when the entire mechanic of what a wand does changes so dramatically? It is...

it is the ease of house rules that might make it nice. For instance, in 3.5 I would have loved to have been able to strip alignment out of the core rules, but it wasn't an easy solution. Too many effects depended on it. A simplified rule system with open math can more easily be tweaked to...

Great article, especially for the novice DM looking for ways to work out an adventure. This isn't the sort of thing I would use, but it would be great to have in the DMG.

Eberron for me...it got me to DM for the first time in 20 years.

Very cool ideas. For me, I'm going to stick with Eberron (the only world I've run since 1987). If that means I have to wait a year before shifting to 4e, that's fine.

Some lightly armored class that uses unusual weapons would work...kind of a hybrid swashbuckler/pirate/gladiator as the martial controller. Fast movement, uses nets, bolos, tridents, tanglefoot bags....

Barbarian Knight and Ninja You can't expect them to bypass the ninja. They may even replace the barbarian with a pirate so you could finally have the pirate vs ninja vs zombie battle.

Interesting trailer. And you are right on both counts...very similar to Cell and the twist endings are why I stopped watching M Night's movies.

Which makes me think...how badly has the announcement and pending release of 4e affected the rpg market? I know my buying has slowed to a trickle over the past 4+ months. Is that a trend that has carried over the entire industry?

That is a perfect assessment of how to trim the fat on the MM. Keep animals, vermin, and swarms, but get rid of the "once every seven campaigns" monsters. Those can be in the other MMs.

Good point on Races of Eberron...the racial feats alone make it worthwhile, especially for a warforged character. Improved Grapple + Spiked Body + Jaws of Death = meatgrinder

If you want to be a spellcaster, then Spell Compendium would be hard to beat unless you were dependent on a prc or feat (reserve?) in one of the complete books. You could have a lot of fun using Dragonmarked and building some of the prcs from that book too.

I'm interested, but I don't watch previews for the shows I really like. When do these start up?

I'm hoping for the entire combat chapter of the PHB. What can I say, I'm a raging optimist.

I disagree. Right now you have a handy countdown clock.... "Dude, you're only at -1...we have nine rounds to get to you" Now, looking at the above math, most will be dead within 6 rounds, if not 5. It isn't ideal, but that part of it is an improvement.

This is a DM issue, not a rules issue. If my players decide to stab one of their companions in the chest with a broadsword so he may have a chance to roll a 20...nope, sorry, not happening. You just committed attempted murder. The group is done at that point because they have one player who...

No, because when I tried to introduce a Second Wind type option to my game, my players met it with a mix of apathy and hostility. They are all, so far, strongly anti-4e.

Interesting. I think the -hp total is far too large to kill someone, but I guess I need to see how attacks scale to really make that call. I like how heals reset you to zero before being applied, but dislike the "on a 20 you get better" rule for stabilization. A mixed bag, for me.

Excellent point. It could very well be a conflict of "roles" rather than mechanics.