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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WhimsyTheFae" data-source="post: 3761447" data-attributes="member: 8964">Okay, so I finally got around to listening to this and I also feel more excited about what was discussed than I do about the hype and tidbits we've received.Irda Ranger does a good job of highlighting some of the discussion, so I'll add to what he said (or give my interpretation).Agreed.  I will say that I hope they don't go with a wealth system, but I wouldn't mind consolodating coinage into that which is most likely to be used.  As far as the various economies, I am not as concerned, although some basic guidelines may be useful if done correctly.Well, he did say that you could see it as the three core books OR you could see it as also including the D&D Insider Materials.I believe that his definition of core is more accurately described as 100% Official.  Since they are also very clear that you don't need to subscribe to the online content to play the game, it makes perfect sense that the core rulebooks are the only true CORE material.It doesn't surprise me, however, that they would encourage people to subscribe, since it will be another source of income (I am starting to lean toward subscribing - I have an account, but I mean actually paying when they start charging).Yeah, I didn't like the wording, because I would be surprised if they actually had DIFFERENT rules, but instead had ADDITIONAL rules (or rule nuances).Whether it's core or a later add-on, doesn't really matter to me, but I think that it has become important enough to gamers that it wouldn't make sense not to include it.That's good, in theory.  I hope that it works well in practice.I hope that the Roles are dynamic enough to allow a character room to change roles during a campaign.  The more aspects that a character is locked into at character creation, the more that a player may become dissatisfied with and not be able to fix (aside from creating a new character).Sacred cows aren't a big deal to me, but then again, I'm more concerned with how it will play rather than how much it feels like D&D.  As long as I can still run the style of game that I like and the players enjoy themselves, I'll probably be happy (for the most part).This response didn't surprise me, since it's been a fairly pat answer to most question like this for quite a while.Once again, as long as the end result is a good (or, can we pray, great) game, I'm not concerned with what was left/tweaked/changed/trashed.To me, this sounded like they will give rough outlines for advancing monsters, but if more specifics are needed, they will fit perfectly in a future product (DMG 2 or MM 2, perhaps).</blockquote>

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