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<blockquote data-quote="Rechan" data-source="post: 4428175" data-attributes="member: 54846"><a href="http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/4dnd/20080815" target="_blank">http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/4dnd/20080815</a>Real meat:March: Player's Handbook II, with eight new classes, five new&nbsp; races, and the primal power source. September's Dragon will preview a&nbsp; build from one of the new classes for folk to playtest.Oooooo. We get to see a build. April: Arcane Power, with new powers, feats, and builds for arcane&nbsp; classes from the Player's Handbook and Player's Handbook II (such&nbsp; as the bard). This seems to me to be confirmation the Bard will be in PHBII. July: Divine Power.First I've heard of this.August: Adventurer's Vault 2. That surprised me, but I guess I shouldn't be.Does the Martial Power sourcebook mean we've&nbsp; seen all the martial classes?No. As new, compelling martial classes&nbsp; are created, they will continue to be published where appropriate.&nbsp;Psionics?It's coming, but it's not&nbsp; yet on the schedule. Psionic characters were originally scheduled for the PH2&nbsp; but were taken out for further development.Both of these questions have popped up recently. I suppose I can understand why they held back Psionics, but it still sucks. Will there be a published &quot;core&quot;&nbsp; setting?There's concern that a core setting (any setting, really)&nbsp; will be used by only a minority of gamers, and thus any setting must be&nbsp; approached carefully. At this time, there are no plans for a published core&nbsp; setting (though online will likely see more core setting material, such as the&nbsp; return of Domains of Dread).&nbsp;Will there be a two-weapon build for&nbsp; fighters?Yes, in Martial Power, and it will be uniquely a&nbsp; fighter (that is, not like a two-weapon rogue or ranger).Ooo. Will we see a return of the polymorph school of&nbsp; magic?Yes. Additional schools of magic will appear, such as illusion&nbsp; and summoning in Arcane Power. Polymorph is still in development. Some of&nbsp; it will appear in Player's Handbook 2.Fantastic. (SPECULATION: The T class in PHB2: The Transmuter. At least, that'd be my wish.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Rechan, post: 4428175, member: 54846"] [URL]http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/4dnd/20080815[/URL] Real meat: [B]March: [/B][I][i]Player's Handbook II[/I], with eight new classes, five new races, and the primal power source. September's [I]Dragon [/I]will preview a build from one of the new classes for folk to playtest.[/i] Oooooo. We get to see a build. [B]April: [/B][I]Arcane Power[/I], with new powers, feats, and builds for arcane classes from the [I]Player's Handbook[/I] and [I]Player's Handbook II [/I](such as the bard). This seems to me to be confirmation the Bard will be in PHBII. [B]July: [/B][I]Divine Power[/I]. First I've heard of this. [B]August: [/B][I]Adventurer's Vault 2[/I]. That surprised me, but I guess I shouldn't be. [i] Does the Martial Power sourcebook mean we've seen all the martial classes? No. As new, compelling martial classes are created, they will continue to be published where appropriate. Psionics? It's coming, but it's not yet on the schedule. Psionic characters were originally scheduled for the PH2 but were taken out for further development.[/i] Both of these questions have popped up recently. I suppose I can understand why they held back Psionics, but it still sucks. [i] Will there be a published "core" setting? There's concern that a core setting (any setting, really) will be used by only a minority of gamers, and thus any setting must be approached carefully. At this time, there are no plans for a published core setting (though online will likely see more core setting material, such as the return of [I]Domains of Dread[/I]). Will there be a two-weapon build for fighters? Yes, in [I]Martial Power[/I], and it will be uniquely a fighter (that is, not like a two-weapon rogue or ranger).[/i] Ooo. [i]Will we see a return of the polymorph school of magic? Yes. Additional schools of magic will appear, such as illusion and summoning in [I]Arcane Power[/I]. Polymorph is still in development. Some of it will appear in [I]Player's Handbook 2.[/i][/I] Fantastic. (SPECULATION: The [i]T[/i] class in PHB2: The Transmuter. At least, that'd be my wish.) [/QUOTE]

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