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You forgot:

4) Blowing everything up so to play in the 'current' realms all the 2e and 3e fluff went kablooie!

Yah, they probably got really tired of people always saying "the fluff from 2e and 1e is still just as useful today, you don't need to buy the new Waterdeep book! I have enough background information for years of playing without buying their new reprints of old material!"

While I have no idea what the new iconic town might be (I find the arguments in favour of Homlet compelling, of course, but I suspect it might be a FR town somewhere - someone mentioned Baldur's Gate), I do find it amusing that many of the Greyhawk fans are hoping that WotC just keeps their fiddling hands off of the Greyhawk town knowing that they will ruin it if they try to genericize it enough to fit into the DMG.

Very telling. :)

Just reminding everybody, again, that this thread is entirely academic because nobody has played 4e yet.

Feel free to continue discussing this, but please don't form opinions about something that functionally doesn't yet exist.

The beauty is that I can form whatever opinion I like. :) You can hold out hope as long as you want to - that is also your prerogative. Just don't ask me not to have my own opinions. It just gets tiring saying "based on the little we know at the moment" before all opinions, but it is implied.

As many people have said to those who have proclaimed their 3.xishness, nobody is coming to your house in the dead of night to take away your books... WotC gave us 3.5, and we're well equipped. 4e is going to be so different as to be an entirely separate ruleset with virtually no compatibility (they've already said this much), so why treat it like an "upgrade" to the D&D rules? Why not treat it like what it is - a totally new game just from a familiar design company. If D&D suddenly went to a fully point-based system like GURPS, and WotC developed it... would people still feel the same need to follow along? Not likely. Think of it as though the company has just stopped supporting the system, and carry on. If you're happy with 3.x then keep playing 3.x There is no expiry date on the books.

And if a company as prestigious as Paizo were the flagship for such an armada, I'd be quite happy to sail in that fleet (which I suspect will be quite substantial).

I am not planning on playing D&D 4th Edition, but I also do not feel that those who are in charge would recklessly drive their charge into the ground (the company, Hasbro, might).

I think that's exactly the problem here. While Rich Baker has been villified for doing horrible things to FR (which Chris Perkins, as the boss, stepped up and took the "blame" for), neither he nor Chris are actually in control. They have to work within parameters that they are given which require Hasbro to make a profit. Hasbro isn't in this business for our benefit... they are here to make a profit, and if something doesn't make a profit they just drop it.

Unfortunately I do think 4e is the end of D&D simply because it won't make the money Hasbro thinks it should, and no amount of massaging by the designers is going to be able to change that.

Paizo, stay 3.P (an excellent version number that someone else coined - kudos to whomever that was :) ) and you will lead the way to gaming stability. The rules are all there, the books are all produced... it's finally a somewhat static scene where some actual innovation can occur that isn't overridden by next month's new $45 hardcover.

I promise to subscribe to Pathfinder the minute I hear Paizo commits to staying 3.x and not following WotC to 4e. :)

Crap, went back to check my math and missed the deadline.... Oh well... maybe next contest. :)

Lightbringer

This amulet can cast Magic Missile 1/day, but only to attack the darkness.

Faint evocation; CL 1st; Craft Wondrous Item, Magic Missile; Price 360 gp; Weight 1 lb.

So this could also go by the name of "Galstaff's Amulet" then? :)

I, too, would love to see what you've done with these. :)

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Thanks for sharing your work. :)