December & Beyond: Previews

[The Ubbergeek]

Of course female dwarves have beards.

They just shave is all.

No, no, no.

This is utherly wrong, like an happy hyper ontarian.

 

[grimslade]

I didn't even know I was in your D&D. What am I? A Greater God?

Obviously with your handle you're an artifact. ;P

 

[Aage]

I didn't even know I was in your D&D. What am I? A Greater God?

Of course you are, you are one of the great old ones... says so in your name

Anyhow, they shouldn't have beards IMO... I like the illustrastions of dwarfen ladies I've seen so far in 4e

 

[Nightchilde-2]

The dwarf women keep cropping up because people can't seem to let go of Tolkien (and even he never said they were bearded...)

But..but...the Dungeons & Dragons movie did say they were bearded and if it was in the D&D movie, it must be true to the game!

 

[Rechan]

But..but...the Dungeons & Dragons movie did say they were bearded and if it was in the D&D movie, it must be true to the game!

He brought up "THAT WHICH SHALL NOT BE MENTIONED".

Sacrifice him to the dice gods!

 

[Lackhand]

I swear that if they don't stop putting up documents as .pdf.zip, I'm going to keep complaining about it until they do.

Seriously, html would be best (why am I changing my browsing habits here? I went to your site, now show me what I wanted!), but failing that, .pdf would be quite nice.

Yes, some people are on dialup, and this allows them to get their documents with greater speed.
In this latest batch: zip 156 K, pdf 192; zip 336, pdf 376; zip 600, pdf 636.

So we're saving about 40 K per.
On a 56 K modem, assume that's 10 seconds, since you don't actually get 56 K on a 56 K modem. Grar.

So the only reason they can be doing this is to save themselves a bit of bandwidth costs. That's silly, stop it, you can't possibly be popular enough for that; if you *really* are then you'd be using bit torrent. You're not. Stop it. Gaah.

It took me more than 10 seconds to unzip the document and open it in a whole new program.


Pretty please?

 

[Remathilis]

But..but...the Dungeons & Dragons movie did say they were bearded and if it was in the D&D movie, it must be true to the game!

What D&D movie? I don't remember a movie, do any of you?

 

[The Grackle]

As I predicted, the hard hitting articles seem to be slated after Christmas. Looks good!

The one I'm looking forward to the most is "Subsystem: Death, Dying, and Negative HP"

Yeah, I'm hoping this is good. I hope they get rid of the Negative HP timeclock and just use conditions.


Also, Isn't it weird that they're releasing Keep on the Shadowfell in May and the books in June? How could you use the adventure w/o the core books?

 

[Irda Ranger]

Edited by me.

Thanks for the list. I'm looking forward to all of those.

Except the "history" one ... so far I've been nonplussed regarding that. It seems every race except humans and halflings had an "ancient empire, destroyed by war."

My thoughts were:
1. Just one empire? Humans (IRL) have had dozens of "ancient empires, destroyed by war." Is WotC saying the other races are all underachievers?
2. Humans (in-game) haven't had any ancient empires? No Egypt or Mesopotamia or Rome? No previous Dynasties? Why not?
3. Why always war? How about a flaming mountain thrown down from heaven? It's not original, but at least it's different. The racial histories so far are sounding like a broken record. Any why can't they just die of corruption/stagnation from within, like most (IRL) Empires do?

 

[Irda Ranger]

Also, Isn't it weird that they're releasing Keep on the Shadowfell in May and the books in June? How could you use the adventure w/o the core books?

Pre-gen characters and a "4E Basic" rule set included.