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That makes a lot of sense. I've always done my PbP round by round, but it means that combat can take as much as a month to resolve. I'm going to keep your suggestion in mind for the future! Either way, though, you're definitely in for the long haul with PbP. I do find that elongated game...

If issues with the company were enough to make me switch systems, I would still likely not switch to Pathfinder. I wouldn't turn down an opportunity to play it, but I'm not interested in creating that opportunity myself. If I do migrate away from 4E it will probably be to a different system...

I was apprehensive about Essentials, but I also thought the Power splatbooks were coming a bit too quickly early in 4E's life cycle. I didn't really think that publication frequency for crunch was sustainable. I stopped buying splatbooks after the first (Arcane Power for me) and instead...

For my PITA hybrid defender, I went with a human ensnaring Swordmage|Warden. He's the stickiest defender I've seen in play. I can keep my aegis on one enemy, mark another adjacent enemy for free, and I have powers that let me add a third mark for a turn if needed. We hit level 6 recently. For...

I love this idea. I'll be a lot more comfortable using larger enemy settlements or even army detachments in my games now.

The necromancer and nethermancer have been revealed by Wizards already in their 2011 product preview on the main D&D site. Both are wizard builds and they seem to be Essentiallized. The blackguard is a paladin build.

I have four: Gloom: a tiefling Rogue|Warlock hybrid multiclassed into Assassin. Level 5. His patron is the Blood Oak from the Underdark sourcebook (fey pact, but with an entity of the feydark rather than the feywild). He has a bit of an eladrin inferiority complex, so he takes teleport powers...

My last 4E group was all newbies, so when the first skill challenge came up, I explained the mechanics to them explicitly. Other than that, I generally don't announce them, although if someone asks, I'm certainly open about it. On their way back from routing the hapless Skull Kicker kobolds of...

I think that's true in a lot of Canadian provinces, but when I mention it to my American friends, none of them have any idea what I'm talking about when I say "common law." (I live in Ontario too, right on the Canada-US border.)

In d20, I use True Sorcery, the system Green Ronin adapted from their Black Company Campaign Setting. It's very flexible, but it's really freaking complicated. The upshot is that I only resort to designing a caster NPC with arcanist class levels when I have no other option. So I guess I...

I'd say do all three. Have him make a revenant wizard, artificer, or other arcane class. Have him take the Death's Blessing feat, which in addition to other perks means he is no longer considered a living creature. Then have him get and use the Lich Transformation ritual at level 14. Then have...

There's always Dark Sun. You could be a ruthless, stealthy cannibal.

If that's the case, then why the retro styling? It seems to me that the 1970s look would hurt the Red Box in this market, not help. I think the only market the retro aesthetic helps with is lapsed D&D players.

Exactly. There are four possibilities: Hit with non-invig power = gain Con mod THP Miss with non-invig power = gain nothing Hit with invig power = gain 2x Con mod THP Miss with invig power = gain Con mod THP I play a level 3 warforged battlerager with 18 Str/18 Con. They're a lot of fun. They...

I dislike what I've seen of Essentials so far. I'll allow them in games I run, of course, but I have no interest in them myself.

Yeah, exactly, and I don't think it will be unusually attractive to new players, either. That's why I'm concerned that Essentials will prove to be a bad business strategy. If so, I hope it ultimately doesn't do too much harm to 4E.

I get the impression that as much as WotC reps talk about Essentials being for beginners/new players, it's actually intended for lapsed players. Hence the retro aesthetic of the boxes, and more importantly, the retro aesthetic of the mechanics. The more Essentials preview content I read, the...

This is correct. I play a Rogue|Warlock hybrid with an Assassin multiclass and I'm looking at some of the power-swap feats. If you make a hybrid in the Character Builder, it won't let you swap a power via a power-swap feat until you already have 3 powers of a given type. This doesn't stop you...

Post, please! I'd love to have them as a reference.

Thanks for keeping this up to date. It's really handy!