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Ooh, damn, but these games fill up fast. I woulda loved to try out Hero's Banner, as I'd never heard of it before. But Mark's two-session game looks entirely kickass, and I'm shocked that there are spaces left. I'd like to get a slot in both The Onyx Citadel and Sold into Slavery, please.

Good Christ, I'm already sick of PC "roles" and the game ain't even out, yet.

Nah. A classless, modular D&D would still benefit from more spare parts from which to build more characters. However, I actually fear that classes sell better than classless systems for other reasons: Quite simply, a lot of people aren't all that eager to come up with their own character...

I expect to be houseruling from the very beginning, but that's more due to my own need to hack game systems than any objective problems D&D 4e actually has.

Yeah, I realized this a few days ago, actually. True20 already proved you could hack D&D 3e into something nearly classless. D&D 4e's more lack of class-specific bonus progressions and focus on better class parity should make that kind of thing even easier. Aw, man, I wish. Actually, come to...

Hell, you know that level-based defense bonuses and armor-as-DR will be some of the first house rules we try, anyway.

Oh, man, this is just untainted good news. Spellcasting Rangers never made a damn bit of sense, to me. Don't worry; we'll figure it out.

And indeed, I might.

Well, I wouldn't say that prevents M&M from being breakable. There's definitely still a lot of GM common sense and player self-restraint required. The books actually go out of their way to point out abusable-but-technically-legal mechanics to make sure nobody gets blindsided. That said, I...

Yeah, I realized after typing that that the distinction wasn't just a question of active vs. passive hazards, but that Initiative is more about being aware of surprises in your surroundings and reacting quickly to them, while Reflex is about dodging things you can already see coming...

Exactly, yeah.

I think a pretty solid case could be made for the Swordsage, even though he doesn't technically cast spells. Also, Jack Daniel's got a point: The Cleric basically qualifies. If you remove the whole "priest" flavor, you've got a guy in heavy armor with a medium BAB and proficiency with all...

The last thing the world needs is another generic D&D setting distinguished only by its history, pantheon, and map. If I'm going to even look at a setting, it's gotta be at least as different as Eberron. Frankly, I'd even say Eberron played it too safe, with its whole "Everything in D&D has a...

I'm still on the edge of just forking my own "D&D" (or d20-ish fantasy game, anyway) into something strongly True20-influenced, but so heavily divergent I'd pretty much need to make my own PHB. Some perverse part of me actually wants to call it "Advanced Dungeons & Dragons", but I do know how...

Hell, I could imagine getting the job done with as few as two classes: Warrior and Wizard. "Wizard" subsumes all types of spellcasting and other supernatural powers, while both classes would get enough skill access that a dedicated skill monkey character would be unnecessary (because, damn it...

Man, that's kind of odd. That really blurs the distinction between Initiative and Reflex Defense. I guess Initiative would be used to avoid passive hazards, while Reflex Defense would be against active attacks? I'm starting to think Reflex should have parted ways with Fortitude and Will, and...

My natural inclination when coming up with fantasy settings always leans towards humans only, or humans plus magically transformed humans. As demonstrated by the real world, humans can be interesting and varied enough that I don't really feel the need for fantasy races, especially considering...

I loved 3.5's truckloads of base classes. But I'd love generic classes with a truckload of customization options a lot more.

I'm not really interested in other people's fluff. EDIT: Actually, I should amend that: I'm often interested in reading other people's fluff. But I'm pretty much never going to use it (not directly, anyway), so I'm not too likely to ever buy fluff-dominant products.

Aw, hell, that is completely badass. I think you've got an extremely cool bunch of players, there.