WalterKovacs
First Post
As a preview it would be hard to know how long until it actually comes out. I mean, we got the Artificer preview before the Forgotten Realms books dropped ... so this could be a ways down the line.
Thinking of 3x, they had both complete arcane and complete mage. Complete divine and complete champion, etc. So rarely is a power sorce only good for one expansion.
There is defintely room for racial feats for any new races (at least the ones from PHBII, possibly more, by the timethe book comes out). Similarly, paragon paths and epic destinies tied to new feats can work. New builds can lend to new multiclass feat options, not to mention feats tied to those new builds. They may also in the "later" Power books actually include new classes, if only to keep the PHB introducing new power source concept. Or if a class they want to bring in is similar enough to one of the existing classes, they can just do it as a new build. Any martial character they want to build as a defender type, they can make it as some flavor of fighter. If they went with a ranged warlord, perhaps using DEX instead of STR, they'd be able to do it, but it would require a lot of powers to make it viable. While they seem to have gone away from that idea, they could introduce new attack stats, or more likely secondary stats as options.
For the rogue, you can have the smart rogue, the tough rogue and the wise rogue (perception and insight seem like useful abilities for a roguish type to have). An urban ranger may be charismatic with streetwise as his main skill [instead of dungeoneering or nature]. There could be an intelligent fighter, or a charismatic and dashing swashbuckler.
They don't necessarily have to cover every permutation, but any one that is considerably different than the existing builds would open up enough room to fill quite a few spots. The beast master ranger was a big one, as it required a lot of beast based powers be introduced.
Also, they can introduce new keywords like rattling, to make skills interact in fights. Perhaps rogues would get deceptive powers keyed off bluff, or rangers could get sneaky powers keyed off stealth, etc.
Thinking of 3x, they had both complete arcane and complete mage. Complete divine and complete champion, etc. So rarely is a power sorce only good for one expansion.
There is defintely room for racial feats for any new races (at least the ones from PHBII, possibly more, by the timethe book comes out). Similarly, paragon paths and epic destinies tied to new feats can work. New builds can lend to new multiclass feat options, not to mention feats tied to those new builds. They may also in the "later" Power books actually include new classes, if only to keep the PHB introducing new power source concept. Or if a class they want to bring in is similar enough to one of the existing classes, they can just do it as a new build. Any martial character they want to build as a defender type, they can make it as some flavor of fighter. If they went with a ranged warlord, perhaps using DEX instead of STR, they'd be able to do it, but it would require a lot of powers to make it viable. While they seem to have gone away from that idea, they could introduce new attack stats, or more likely secondary stats as options.
For the rogue, you can have the smart rogue, the tough rogue and the wise rogue (perception and insight seem like useful abilities for a roguish type to have). An urban ranger may be charismatic with streetwise as his main skill [instead of dungeoneering or nature]. There could be an intelligent fighter, or a charismatic and dashing swashbuckler.
They don't necessarily have to cover every permutation, but any one that is considerably different than the existing builds would open up enough room to fill quite a few spots. The beast master ranger was a big one, as it required a lot of beast based powers be introduced.
Also, they can introduce new keywords like rattling, to make skills interact in fights. Perhaps rogues would get deceptive powers keyed off bluff, or rangers could get sneaky powers keyed off stealth, etc.
