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Message: <blockquote data-quote="broghammerj" data-source="post: 3770903" data-attributes="member: 1869">I hope you have your ring of fire resistance on <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />   I have a pretty similar opinion and took a lot of heat for it in my previous post:<a href="http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=206843" target="_blank">http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=206843</a>There are people here who believe we are expecting too much too fast.  I would argue WOTC made the announcement of 4E too soon.  There appears to be a lot of material still in flux.  Todays news page says there is a problem with races that may not see the light, but again we get treated with kid gloves and don't know anything about what that might be.This edition is sold as the one that will streamline the game, fix all the problems, and most of all be fun.  Yet we have several contradictory things coming from DnD Insider.1. The racial advancement apparently has a hang up on one race.2. You shouldn't convert your current campaign, but per the blogs that is exactly what WOTC did.3. The warforge apparently are indestructible which needs to be resolved.4. Related to #3 there is something they are working on with DR- "but the really odd thing is that his damage resistance (any DR, really) ignores psychic damage and poison damage. I’m not sure things ought to work that way; it seems to me that some sorts of damage ought to bypass DR by their very nature."5.They are using undeveloped material for their internal playtests- Several of us needed new races. Luckily, we had some versions kicking around. These hadn’t been developed yet, but we used them anyway.6. As of 9/7 they are working on multiclassing- "Here's a tidbit: we're working on multiclassing right now. One of my directives to the dev team was that I'd like to play a CENSORED ranger/cleric/wizard in a playtest. We'll see if we make that work."My problem is the edition is supposed to fix all these issues, but instead of a completed work that needs some polishing we are looking at a work in progress.  DnD Insider is giving narrative descriptions of new things in 4E but nothing of substance.I don't believe 4E is a money grab.  The money grab comes from the preview books they're planning on releasing.</blockquote>

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