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I'm seeing changes already today--prices changing (both upwards and downwards, but always below print cover price), clearer edition labelling. I think we may be good to go in a few days.

I've been able to 'backdoor' into the WotC section of the DriveThru site thanks to still having the Book of Challenges in my library, and can take a look at the current stats for the items on the bestseller list, although none of them are available. Points of information: --All items appear...

And checking Amazon for release dates suggests that unless they've managed to keep this very close to the vest, it won't be coming out until September 2013 at the earliest--and WotC has never released a new edition after GenCon. (3E was Aug/Sept./Oct.--and I think they regretted it when WW's...

As noted earlier, W&W has been refined and renamed to "Misfits & Mayhem," as well as broadened from just 4E to include late 3E and even some forms of 2E. It's still similar to P&P, but characters tend to be more varied and a bit less clean-cut, tending to get themselves into trouble as much as...

Note that the post is only the first version in a 170+ post thread that's still ongoing about these categories, as well as a spinoff on P&P in particular that's even longer. At least one new category has been added (Castles & Cronies, for political gaming), renamings have been proposed...

That's a story he reserves for conventions, last I knew.

Here's a little trick that may make M&M easier for you: you don't have to build NPCs with points. Set a PL and assign traits as appropriate.

I take it you're up to speed on the Fate of the Jedi novels, which tied in a lot of this stuff? Bear in mind that there are hints therein that Abeloth was not necessarily a unique individual. You could always borrow from Babylon 5's Shadows, Vorlons and First Ones. Given that the DarkStryder...

Found on Amazon here. At this rate, WotC will have published more 3.5 and 1E material between the announcement and release of Next than 4E material. ;) :p EDIT: Never mind, scooped.

OTOH, the 4E books are four years old and the 1E books aren't available directly from Amazon. Tough to draw conclusions.

Ph.D. student in Historical Theology, and the list goes back to at least Pope St. Gregory the Great. There were two schools of thought on the place of pride in the list. Some place it as one of the seven, others, including Gregory and St. Thomas Aquinas, IIRC, place it above them as the...

It was a concern at the Dawn of Time (2000). :)

Well, how are we defining 'difficulty'? It's less effort to rebuild a 3E class than a 4E class, for example, but it's more challenging to make sure that it doesn't throw anything terribly off balance. 3E is a tremendously expandable system due to its vast amount of material, basic resolution...

And as a medievalist, a slight correction on the characterization of Hell. Dante divided up Purgatory, not Hell, by the Seven Capital Sins. Hell was divided more by the distinction between Sins of Weakness/Incontinence, Sins of Violence, and Sins of Fraud. Hell punishes the acts or final fruits...

OTOH, there seems to be evidence that even the original designers didn't spot the implications of all the rules changes they made. Or is it your contention that CoDZilla, caster supremacy, and the class tiers are a) non-issues or b) intended?

Or dumping incriminating evidence before the Great Purges start and those who do not bow to 1E, Pathfinder or Next get sacrificed to idols of Gygax, Paizo or Mearls, respectively. :)

As someone who's identified himself as part of this generation/"middle school"/etc. for years, this is pretty much spot-on. It's why what I've been waiting for--and what I think a lot of us are waiting for--is the restoration of the PDFs or the old source material in other formats; system isn't...

Not Gygax-era 1E, not 3E. We'll be lucky if we get PDFs. ;)

My thought is that they'll be able to actually move this product at $50 list if it's a version that finally won't fall apart. :)

You realize Unearthed Arcana was a product by TSR and carried Gary Gygax's name and imprimatur, right? :)