Races & Classes details from the WotC boards

[Merlin the Tuna]

This far into the thread and no mention of the kender as main inspiration for 4E halflings?

...Except that the post says that they admit that kender were the main inspiration for 3e halflings, and we're getting more of the same. This isn't a change.

 

[Cadfan]

I like the crunch in the article.

An extra second wind is fine by me. One of my big hopes for 4e is that racial abilities will be universally useful, rather than the highly, highly situational ones we have now (+4 dodge v giants?) Everyone in every campaign can use an extra second wind.

No darkvision! Hooray! Lighting, and problems surrounding lighting, are one of the classic elements of D&D, and having a character in the party who ignores it is just annoying. Low light vision is much better.

I like the Eladrin racial feat. I'm all for giving out little bits of magic to those who want them.

The dragonborn seem alright to me. They're not classic tolkienesque fantasy, but I'm pretty sure I'll survive. And if this means that the core books will make available a character who can naturally fly, I will be a very, very happy person. Even if its only a very high level ability.

 

[Kurotowa]

Not as a mechanic, but as fluff; At least that's my interpretation.

Or at least as a different mechanic. IIRC, they mentioned things like dwarves getting racial abilities that matched well with fighter abilities. This could be something like that.

 

[Aage]

Or at least as a different mechanic. IIRC, they mentioned things like dwarves getting racial abilities that matched well with fighter abilities. This could be something like that.

Yeah, exactly, so the dwarf is better fit to be a fighter.. But there is nothing hindering him from being a rogue; or hindering an eladrin from being a fighter...

 

[Pinotage]

Hmm. Ambivalent. Is it just me or are they trying to dump too much setting information into the core rules? Why do humans have to like horses? What if I want a dwarf who lives in the swamp? Does he have to be a halfling-loving ostracized dwarf? In 3.5e humans had Environment: Any. Why try and stick them in plains? Ugh. I don't know.

Pinotage

 

[Singing Smurf]

Thirded. Big time.

edit: But that would fit perfectly with my 'tiefling art bait-and-switch' theory.

Hey, I didn't say I was happy about it.


I was reminded of your earlier discussion of the illustration with the tail (that I thought was a Tiefling) as well.

 

[NaturalZero]

If they are that human looking I'm really disappointed.

In another thread on the WotC boards, someone said that one of the devs (or maybe it was Reynolds himself) admited that the cover showed a tiefling and a human.

 

[Drkfathr1]

Hmm. Ambivalent. Is it just me or are they trying to dump too much setting information into the core rules? Why do humans have to like horses? What if I want a dwarf who lives in the swamp? Does he have to be a halfling-loving ostracized dwarf? In 3.5e humans had Environment: Any. Why try and stick them in plains? Ugh. I don't know.

Pinotage

yeah, not real sure how much I like that, especially pigeon-holing Humans in such a way. But, this book was sent to the printers long ago, and the 4E PHB is still being finalized, so perhaps some things will change a bit still....hopefully.

Really not digging Haflings as swamp dwellers though.

 

[Upper_Krust]

Howdy Bagpuss dude!

If they are that human looking I'm really disappointed.

Didn't the poster mention that Dragonborn were able to take 'Racial Feats' that allowed them to become more Draconic? (Wings and so forth)

I like the idea that the more draconic they look like the (potentially) more powerful they are.

Also it seems that all the core classes have a favoured race with the exception of the Paladin class (Warforged perhaps?)

 

[Piratecat]

So humans correspond to White, dwarves to Red, elves to Green.

Dragonborn may be a red/white mix, halflings sound blue/green and tieflings may be some sort of black?



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: runs :

Wait, WoW doesn't use those rules!

Interesting. I think I like. I'm not worried about the kender thing; EVERYONE at WotC knows that most people detest kenders. They won't shoot themselves in the foot by giving us a kender clone.