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Actually, I find it less accessible. Older editions, you could run games with nothing than the PHB, DMG and MM, a few sheets, dices and pencils. Now it's impossible to run combat without a battlemap and some minis/counters. To me that makes the game a lot less accessible.

There should be some measure of rule mastery and homework involved in the game. What I hate the most are people who do not know the most basic rules and are always asking others what to do. A totally new player is allowed to act like that for 2-3 games, but after that, he should be able to...

If the character is anything but a defender, give him a pet or something else that can fill that roll. Something like Drizzle's panther. I can even gain power with the character, becoming something like an advanced familiar. For example, your solo dragonborn wizard starts up with a family...

You should be able to shoehorn Birthright books into a CORE(TM) D&D experience. The three unique points Birthright would bring to CORE(TM): 1- Domain and rulership. 2- Blooded characters, awnsheghlien. (Unique Paragon Paths / Epic Destinies) 3- Mass combat. Three new 4E rules which would fit...

Maybe Arcane and Divine are "hub" power sources? Able to give access to many minor powers or replicate the effects of minor powers from other power sources like Shadow, Fey, Psionics or Primal? For example, a Wizard with Arcane power source is able to use a power called animate death as a 9th...

I think power sources could also be useful in the campaign game design and encounter design. For example, god X is temporarly imprisoned by the big villain, the result being that Divine-based powers derived from that god are less powerful. Or that areas of the game world are plagued by...

My ideas are not really for the reprinting of most of the classic settings, but more of an adaptation of their concept. 1 - The other Forgotten Realms (Zakhara, Kara-Tur, Maztica & Golden Horde). Instead of a "new setting", these could be incorporated into the Forgotten Realms, with the...

I've got a question. At the end of 2Ed, the Realms were near the gunpowder (smokepowder) revolution mostly due to Maztica and Spelljammer settings. In 3Ed, this was mostly ignored, because many felt that it made the Realms less "iconic", so only Latan and gnomes were using them. But with HYL...

In my opinion, players can decide to rest up whenever they want is extremely bad DMing. Bad guys would kinda notice that like the first half of their lair is no longer responding during the 8 hours it takes the party to rest up, and prepare accordingly or go investigate and find the party...

Personally, I dislike the whole evil-curious concept. If I make the jump to 4E, there will be no tieflings or infernal warlocks. I always prefered Batman to Spawn.

The Times of Trouble was the big event pushing 2nd Edition, and the Spellplague seems to be the one for the 4th, what was the big event of the 3rd Edition in the realms? The return of Bane?

A 10th level party needs to be fighting four EL 10th encounters rooms then rest up. Then again four EL 10th encounter rooms and rest up. The first Temple of Elemental Evil, in a lot of places, you had rooms after rooms of low level mooks, then their bosses would join up, before you were able...

I have not played 3.0 and my experience with 3.5 is very limited, but in the old days, Fighters were somewhat balanced with the Wizards. Experience: Leveling up as a fighter required a lot less experience, and mid to high level, the fighter character would be a full level higher than the...

What I hope is that crosstraining and powers will finally enable effective soloing, and not get into: you will die 100% chance because you are not a Rogue with the Trap sense ability, or no Cleric so no healing, etc. Sometimes soloing sessions or games in which the party is splitted up is fun...