Swordmage-> annoying...

[Howndawg]

My thoughts are they are putting it in the FRPG so that those people who absolutely have to have it will buy the book regardless of whether they want to use the Realms or not. I hope they will reprint it in the PHBII for those who want the class yet will not buy the Realms book.

 

[Evilhalfling]

I am hoping the entire swordmage is posted as a preview. WotC has done it before.
I was using the Knight Phantoms off the site IMC long before anyone in the group bought whatever obscure book it was printed in.

I am also hoping it won't be in the paid-fee only section.
If the class is the only thing I will use from the book, I am not going to buy it.
I would rather go to the trouble of getting the class another way, and would appreciate
it if WoTC was willing to make it easy, and preferably, legal.

 

[hennebeck]

So, no Bard. shoot. I was wrong.

 

[AZRogue]

Hopefully this is NOT a shift in strategy where they release different Classes and other such things in setting specific books and then count on people being DDI members to get access, if they don't want to buy the setting.

 

[Revinor]

I agree that classes should only appear in the PHBs (not the FR versions). I would hate to have to buy a book, when the only use for it would be to play ONE new class. Couldn't they save the Swordmage for the PHBII?

PHB2 will have Bladewizard, don't worry. Then we will see Epeesorcerer and Axewitch. In mass battlesystem book we will get Catapultmystic.

In other words - they want to earn money. Only way to sell FR book outside FR market is to put something useful and generic inside. I would say just ignore it and go for one of the 3rd party publishers - various versions of gish will be probably available way before FR book.

Too bad Monte Cook is not going 4e route, at least at the moment. I enjoyed his splat books tremendously.

 

[Moon-Lancer]

while this may not directly apply to the sword mage, I have been picking up vibes that tell me wizards is purposefully spreading out their core and fundamental d&d continent. By that i mean they are putting what used to be core into many different splat books in an effort to encourage people to buy more books or go with digital initiative. Like the druid, and the bard, and the monk and the frost giant... etc. I hope I am wrong though. I really do.

 

[TerraDave]

I am not an FR player and don't want to pick this up, but I know I will want to play a Swordmage is there any chance this class will get re-published in the "Arcane Power" book? I will be highly disappointed if this is an FR only class.

I will join the crowd and agree.

 

[Flynn]

Much as I would like this book simply for the options contained within, I have made a decision to only purchase 4E books that will be opened to the GSL, at least at full cost. I doubt WOTC will open any of the content of this Player's Guide to the GSL, and so I won't likely pick it up. Now, if they do add some of the gaming bits within to the GSL (no product identity, of course, just mechanics), then I'm all over picking it up.

At the moment, knowing little about 4E and only the blurb above on the Player's Guide, I will likely wait until I can pick this book up cheap (second-hand or in some other form that is no more than half the cover price) and go from there.

With Regards,
Flynn

 

[Dausuul]

Hopefully this is NOT a shift in strategy where they release different Classes and other such things in setting specific books and then count on people being DDI members to get access, if they don't want to buy the setting.

Well, considering that the previous strategy was to release different classes and other such things in setting-specific books, and then people who don't want to buy the setting are just plain screwed... I'd have to say this would be an improvement.

 

[Nymrohd]

I find it hard to imagine the Realms without bards being available. I mean the Bard is the primary heroic archetype of the Realms.