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You're making an assumption that is not "realistic." Humans forget things that they don't practice- rather quickly, too. I use a variety of simulators to design and verify integrated circuitry, but I tend to use only one or two of them at a time. I've been doing this job for close to twelve...

Fascinating, how feats and trade-offs that were crap in 3e are considered too good in 4e.... what's better, -1 to hit for +1.5 damage on an attack, or -2 for +3.5 damage on an attack? You'd think the answer would be obvious, except it apparently isn't. -2/+3.5 is the base trade-off for monkey...

Somewhere out there, Gary Gygax is cackling maniacly and getting ready to blast the passing spirits of newly-dead characters with the words "SYSTEM SHOCK IS BACK, BABY!" ...And I couldn't be happier.

The characters in KotS are.... well, let's just say they're suboptimal. The Dragonborn Paladin has a Con of 12 and a wis low enough to only allow one lay-on-hands? Huh? The Dwarf has 31, not 32 hitpoints? Ouch. The cleric is a complete mess compared to the cleric from the delve. Come to...

Whether or not that decision is the best, most profitable one is immaterial- it was perceived as the best, most profitable one, and was thus implemented. Whether or not the perception is correct will be tested over the next year, but their reaction to that perception is one that I or any other...

Ooh, I love it. The striker dishes out mondo damage and you as the warlord share in the glory immediately. Buffers in 4e tended to be forgotten after the kill. I don't think this power will allow that to happen. Of course, you can always pick a different at-will power if you don't like the...

We as consumers are also part of the capitalist equation. If you don't want the FR book enough- despite the swordmage- don't buy it. You'll be voting with your wallet, and it's something we do every day. Capitalism at its core is amoral (not immoral, mind you). There's nothing right or wrong...

Statistically speaking, Each huge rare will have the same number produced as each non-huge rare, so no, they will be no rarer. However, this set will have the same issue that the other huge sets had- such a huge chunk of the value of each booster is bound up in the rare huges that it will be...

Why do people expect characters fighting a gargantuan White Dragon, CR 19+ in 3.5e, to not having glowing magic weapons?

... or they might just get a bonus feat, which sorta helps with multiclassing. As an aside, I'd be really bummed if most of the list of 4e feats turns out to be crammed with "Wizard Training: Ray of Frost" and what-not. This isn't me speculating, mind you- I have nary a clue.

In terms of suspension of disbelief, the incremental approach to multiclassing that feats offer is light years ahead of 3.x. I know it was mechanically suboptimal, but in terms of consistency, how much sense did it make for a 7th level wizard to take a single level of fighter and suddenly...

I can't say whether or not it'll be balanced (I'm betting it won't be), but I've gotta repeat what the martial arts guy said before- you forget old skills awfully, awfully fast once you learn new ones in real life. Back in college, the accepted term for this was the semesterly "memory dump."...

Well, I'm eagerly awaiting 4e, and I'm going to buy it regardless of the GSL. But part of me really, really hopes that the GSL will still exist and will be fairly magnanimous. There's a difference between realistic about what we should expect WotC to do and being hopeful that idealism wins out...

I think the answer is: Who cares? They stopped being the target demographic a long time ago. I'm not trying to demean them, mind you. Simply put, anyone who wasn't willing to pay for the 3.5e revision isn't going to be part of WotC's long range business plan, since 3.5e apparently sold like...

Well, the first thing to consider is that your two houserules sorta contradict each other, which is what is making the bursts lose so many squares. If the first diagonal costs only 1, then a Burst 1 should be a 3x3 square. The alternative that you're going to use- essentially a cross- is just...

Eh. It was cool once you got over the 100th level characters option. ... okay, never mind. Selective lobotomy here we go.

Normally I'd worry about making glowing recommendations, but I don't with Zimmer. It's practically a crime that his stuff is so unknown in D&D circles, since we was one of us and managed to write some of the best D&D-esque books out there. The only annoying part is that there's only four books...

Wrong plane.

Easy stuff, but it's not an official setting- Look up the four Dark Border novels by Paul Edwin Zimmer. they're out of print, but easy as pie to find- Amazon has thirty resellers with copies. The guy who wrote them was obviously an old school D&D gamer and was one of the original members of...

... or that he was the star of Bastion of Broken Souls? I, for one, always had demogorgon as the top dog, ever since 1e. I never got the Orcus-love. He was a cool adversary in the Bloodstone series, but Demogorgon deserves a lot more love than he's gotten. To top it off, Orcus is going to...