Assassins in PHB3

[Scholar & Brutalman]

From Mike Mearls' "Keep on the Gaming Lands" blog:

So, basically, whenever I'm on deadline I suddenly get the idea to post in my blog. I finished up PH 3 last week, and between that deadline and my last post I've had zero time to even look at this blog.

Dated March 4.

 

[Scholar & Brutalman]

Monk is the barbarian of PHBIII (it's going to be released as a playtest this month, so there is at least some Ki going on in the book)...

Is this official, or is it part of your prediction?

The Editorial Calendar says the playtest this month is from Martial Power 2, so if it's the Monk, the Monk is a Martial class.

 

[Nikosandros]

Is this official, or is it part of your prediction?

The Editorial Calendar says the playtest this month is from Martial Power 2, so if it's the Monk, the Monk is a Martial class.

IIRC, the monk playtest article is slated for May.

 

[Hawke]

Yeah, good to keep in mind that nothing is set in stone! The previewed class names for Avenger/Warden & Sorcerer being a Controller are good examples of some changes... I'm fairly certain we'll see an Assassin class, but I could see them renaming it to something else.

 

[WalterKovacs]

IIRC, the monk playtest article is slated for May.

Yeah, typed a bit too fast there. Made the mistake the first time I read the mention of the Monk playtest being in May ... originaly thought it said March.

 

[Felon]

I'm tending to think we'll see shadow, ki, and psionic in PHB III . . . because I think we'll be seeing Dark Sun next year.

I don't know what's coming next year, but it would be quite possible to have each PHB focused on a power source that's central to that campaign.

Dark Sun --> Psionic (giving us a PHB with races like the half-giant and thri-kreen, and classes like psion and psi-warrior)
Ravenloft --> Shadow (giving us classes along the lines of necromancers and shadowcasters)
Oriental Adventures --> (with the obvious assortment of OA classes like monk and samurai)

I suppose that's sufficiently obvious that I"m just parroting what others have already hypothesized. Oh well.

 

[Relique du Madde]

What, no one think that ShadowMages and other stuff from the Tome of magic will also appear even though they were a PROTO 4E class?

 

[Cadfan]

What, no one think that ShadowMages and other stuff from the Tome of magic will also appear even though they were a PROTO 4E class?

I think its almost certain that the Shadowcaster will be showing up in 4e.

No one else does, because everyone else wants to fill the Shadow power source with wizard school-specialists from 3e (illusionist, necromancer). But I think they're wrong, and that we'll see a Shadowcaster. If nothing else, the shadowcaster-ish-ness of the already existent shadow powered paragon paths is a big clue.

In fact, I'm going to go out on a limb and predict that the Shadowcaster has murdered the beguiler and illusionist silently in the darkness, and abscorded unseen with their stuff.

 

[Nahat Anoj]

I now no longer think we're going to see a necromancer class. Rather, in keeping with The City Entombed article, necromancy will be a style of magic available to any magic using class. So clerics, swordmages, avengers, wizards, etc. all have the potential to be necromancers in their own ways.

 

[Fallen Seraph]

In fact, I'm going to go out on a limb and predict that the Shadowcaster has murdered the beguiler and illusionist silently in the darkness, and abscorded unseen with their stuff.

As long as we get some manner of Beguiler or Illusionist in some form or another. Even one where it is simply consumed into another class I will be happy.