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so I drove all the way out to King of Prussia PA to get the free Paizo Beastiary, and when I got there, the clerk made me roll a D20 and gave me a random book. When I asked him about the Beastiary, he said they were doing it random this year and that was it. Seriously ?

Sorry for the Rant.

Hey, you can download it for free as a PDF and print a copy for yourself and keep an archive on your computer. So its not the slick print copy for free but you're going to get all the same information for gaming purposes.

I was disappointed I couldn't go period due to physical ailments. I wasn't aware that so many companies are involved in this phenomenon. I only heard about it last year after the fact and I've only heard of D&D in relation to it, this year also Fantasy Flight Games.

I'm so out of the loop.

The daily afternoon onshore breeze whistling and whipping through the vertical blinds and the distant shouts and whistle-blowing of a high school football practice at the school that borders our apartment building.

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Smerg wrote:

Bards not having performance skill in a single instruement

Why would a bard need a perform: instrument skill? Bardic music works with any perform skill and even the PHB suggests perform: oratory.

As long as they have some performance skill then I am fine with the idea. I am just thinking it is silly that a player can make a Bard and have no performance skill at all.

Personally, I think that skill ranks from class should be devoted to these basic skills that members of the class would know.

My beef is that everyone should begin with at least one point in Knowledge (Local - Specific Area) in the area that they grew up in, to reflect the fact that they didn't grow up in somebody's basement/root cellar. Each person should also get one point in Survival (Wilderness, Rural or Urban). Anyone with an INT 7+ or WIS 7+ would get these skills IMHO.

Any other skill point expenditures should be justified by a detailed character background approved by the DM; Most characters would have to take a skill related to what they could reasonably earned a living at an apprentice-level doing for their master/teacher etc.

Here is what I don't get - its all imaginary and yet people respond to WotC's changes to imaginary fluff as if that actually really matters in the really real world.

If we wanted to talk about what really matters in the world we'd be having a political, economic or religious discussion somewhere else.

If you do not like it then ignore it, use your own imagination, and make up your own imaginary fluff.

It's a game. It's a game where imagination takes center stage and we all tell stories, roll dice, and have a good time.

It's just a game.

Believe me, I intend to ignore it, will not buy it and will encourage all the D&D players I know not to waste their money.

As for making money, the franchise so far has to be more lucrative than Elmo dolls!

Elven Monks (LN) as Guerrilla Fighters (See Warrior Strategy Guide by Goodman Games), then NG Elven Druids, NG Elven Rangers or NG Cleric (Elemental GOOD)/Wizard as Mystic/Diviner (2e). In Basic D&D it was Elf of course!

I agree with most of the posts about picking other domains and using spontaneous healing being more versatile.
That said, I am currently a NG DRUID 9 with no healing capacity and no wild shape ability playing in the Time of Troubles (? -where the Gods are just coming back) in Krynn. I also have CLERIC 1 (Mishikal)/RANGER 1. So I have GOOD and HEALING as domains for flavor and am the closest thing the party has as a medic (before it was either Goodberry or Heal skill and time/rest). We have no FIGHTER currently and just lost our mage to a CR5 encounter out of the Dragonlance/Krynn Bestiary...ability damaged to death with one envenomed blow. Now it's just me and a kleptomaniac gully dwarf ROGUE ?/WIZARD ?/CLERIC 1, LOL.

I loved The Hobbit, I think it was J.R.R. Tolkien's best descriptive work, whereas I found the LotR trilogy and the Silmarillion to be somewhat dry and unfulfilling.

I wish they would do a short high quality anime series based on it.

I must admit that upon looking over the numerous 4e threads here, I'm surprised by the vitriol people feel about the whole process. Having just looked over Races and Classes, I can't say I find many of the changes to be bad - in fact, just the opposite. They seemed to have tackled many of the things that slow down play and enjoyment. I look forward to the game.

But that's just my opinion and others are welcome to hold their own. But why be hateful? I understand the anger over losing the magazines. I even understand why people don't like the way people at WotC are handling their marketing. So they are lousy at marketing... But why the attacks?

If I end up not liking 4e (but you know, none of us have actually seen it), then I'll play 3.5. I've got plenty of supplements, adventures, and enhancements to last me a lifetime. But if it's a better game, why not play it?

Change is inevitable - except from a vending machine. ~Robert C. Gallagher

It probably has something to do with MONEY...many gamers are heavily invested in 3.0/3.5 by the number of materials they have bought which, other than background material, may be made obsolete. There's also the possibility that while a certain percentage of the rules will change, the rest will remain the same (if it ain't broke, don't fix it)...say 25% new material at an average of 200pp per book, 29.95 per book for 3 core rule books...you do the math, but I can tell you the price will be too high to support the investment for me. I'd rather buy new 3.0/3.5 stuff with 100% new content.

The other factor is TIME, represented in the time it takes to read 3 core rulebooks and the time it takes to actually memorize the important changes to things like character creation, combat etc. Today, more than ever, people have less leisure time (myself included) and I'd rather be gaming than reading new rulebooks!

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