Races & Classes spotted?

[Kintara]

Tquirky, I don't think genres are prescriptive. They are descriptive. There is no one ultimate "generic" Bible with all the genre rules in them. You can break rules, but that's only because people have individually made up their own. In reality, everything is in flux. Chaotic, messy flux. It's the same with language as a whole, really.

 

[Charwoman Gene]

A race that has congenital amnesia but gains secret abilities or powers that can only be discovered in play!

That actually sounds good to me.

 

[I'm A Banana]

I'm SO GLAD that I was SO WRONG.

Dragonborn win. They have a lame name, but I have the foreboding impression that EVERYTHING will have a lame name in the 4e core because the crew defaults to the compound word like a security blanket.

But even more interesting to me....even more compelling....is what I see in the classes list....

Didja see that?

DRUID

Woah.

 

[Rechan]

I disagree, a lot.
1) Bland does not get people interested.
2) D&D needs its own clear identity. I like the direction they are taking it. Plenty of recognizable stuff, now homogeneously blended instead of being LotR with every other cool (or no so) idea that some gamer had in the last 30 years grafted on to it.

Adjust your sarcasm meter. I was being facetious.

 

[Tquirky]

Tquirky, I don't think genres are prescriptive.

And WOTC is prescribing every D&D game eladrin, and dragondudes. Oh and "warlords". By default.

I hope they BYO their own spiked chains. It must be tough being a "warlord" and all with no army.

 

[Kintara]

And WOTC is prescribing every D&D game eladrin, and dragondudes. By default.

Well, then you could argue that all the way to, "New Editions are Bad!"

edit: And that's fine. But we might as well skip to the chase.

 

[Tquirky]

Well, then you could argue that all the way to, "New Editions are Bad!"

You could argue, also, that what you've said right there is one humdinger of a straw man, too.

I think WOTC has got some really good ideas for 4E, and I'm looking forward to the majority of them. I can't fault them from anything they've said re: mechanics, or cleaning up the game generally. I just wish they'd get the flavour of some of the specifics under control, though, because it has issues (IMO). Or at least put them in a supplement where they can be ignored. But no.

edit: And that's fine. But we might as well skip to the chase.

Because everyone who isn't on-board with absolutely everything is an unreasonable grognard. Loook, we can't all be MerricB, you know?

 

[Rechan]

Well, then you could argue that all the way to, "New Editions are Bad!"

edit: And that's fine. But we might as well skip to the chase.

Oh, new editions are fine. Just as long as they're the same as the last one.

 

[Tquirky]

Oh, new editions are fine. Just as long as they're the same as the last one.

Because to be a true 4E fan, you have to like ALL of it. Or did I miss that memo?

 

[Rechan]

Because to be a true 4E fan, you have to like ALL of it. Or did I miss that memo?

Yeah. The memo also said "To be interested in the 4e fluff, you must be a freakazoid furry, and therefore you are bad".