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Message: <blockquote data-quote="humble minion" data-source="post: 3822341" data-attributes="member: 5948">It's pretty hard to come down hard against anything at this point - it's just too early and we've got such little information to base an opinion on.  The only things I can say unambiguously that I don't like are a) what's being done to the FR setting, and b) the horribly drab and flavourless names for the new planes.I'm a little concerned that wizards (in particular, and magic in general) might be heading towards a more simplistic combat-focused blasterish style rather than rewarding the sort of more cerebral and calculating preparation and pre-planning that they did in 3e.  Could Sep have run his story hour in 4e?  Other than that, I sincerely hope that the rumours about drow being a playable race in PHB1 are false, and while I'm still a bit leery I'm willing to give the new planar structure and demon-devil business a chance.Time will tell.  But to be honest if WotC manages to get rid of some of the immersion-breakers and silly leftovers that have been hindering D&D for ages, magic item dependency in particular, the rest would have to be pretty damn terrible to put me off.</blockquote>