Wizards R&D Seminar at GenCon 2007

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

FRCS 4E will be out in August...

Noooooooo!

 

[F4NBOY]

Character Powers are to be sorted into at will, per encounter and per day.
Vancian 'spell slots' will be reduced in how much they control a caster's total ability.

Take a look at this article Monte Cook wrote some time ago:
http://www.montecook.com/cgi-bin/page.cgi?otherd20_Spellcasters

 

[F4NBOY]

There will be much more “situation” and complexity in the environment, swinging bridges, gouts of lava, etc.

It reminds me of the "combat zones" from Iron Heroes.

 

[Wulf Ratbane]

It reminds me of the "combat zones" from Iron Heroes.

Sure... 4e is looking more and more like a second bite at the Iron Heroes apple for Mearls.

 

[Dinkeldog]

Please don't ascribe motives or cast aspersions on other members of ENWorld, thank you.

--Dinkeldog/Moderator

 

[Irda Ranger]

Sure... 4e is looking more and more like a second bite at the Iron Heroes apple for Mearls.

i'm all about that. I've been playing Iron Heroes the last year and a half, and it rocks. It needed some serious work to get into shape (because of Mearls going to WotC and not finishing it), but the promise and potential was all there.

I am very sad about the PC-only (which I suspect means WinXP and Vista) support though. Insider is dead to me, and to my group. Three Mac users and a Linux geek and a Win NT grognard aren't getting any love.

 

[Irda Ranger]

Resource Management
All classes have defined roles – a fighter is never penalized for being a “tank”, a “healer” is never penalized for curing, a mage is never penalized for “magic missiling”

Sounds like we still have to convince someone to play the cleric though ...

Other than that, this all looks awesome. Thanks ashockey!!!

 

[Aloïsius]

To the question of whether XP will be required to make magic items Andy Collins replied, "No, Hell No." How magic items will be made in character wasn't discussed beyond a vague statement that you wouldn't be burning a feat on it, and out of character the structure of magic item creation will become more loosened.

Yay !

 

[Elephant]

Please don't ascribe motives or cast aspersions on other members of ENWorld, thank you.

--Dinkeldog/Moderator

Huh? I was reading the thread, and this seemed glaringly out of place. Who is casting aspersions?

 

[EricNoah]

Actually I was wondering the same thing. Thought maybe this was maybe a mistaken reply to a different thread?