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mwbeeler wrote:Vecna suffers a nervous breakdown from keeping so many secrets, causing his portfolio to transfer to Bob, the He-Lady of Stuff.I love the idea of Vecna being a bag lady with tons of crap in her purse that she won't let anyone see.
Muttering to herself, stopping to cackle every now and then with some portentous bit of garbled nonsense. "The stone circle beneath the seas of the moon! HEE HEE HEE!"

Trey |

All adventures will have a corporate sponsor. Coming up:
Econolodge on the Shadowfell
The Weather Channel Thunderspire Labyrinth
The ConAgra Food Pyramid of Shadows
The top PCs can compete for the right to earn individual sponsorships, wearing brand stickers on their armor like NASCAR drivers. These sponsorships will entitle them to gold pieces, upgrades and accessories for the mounts and equipment, and other promotional considerations.

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All adventures will have a corporate sponsor. Coming up:
Econolodge on the Shadowfell
The Weather Channel Thunderspire Labyrinth
The ConAgra Food Pyramid of Shadows
Ooh, product placement in adventures! You go to DI to set up your virtual dungeon and it will come fully stocked with Cabbage Patch brand plushies in place of monsters (collect them all, just click the plushy to add this item to your cart!) and Ikea dungeon furnishings. (Which you can deselect and replace with other things, if you purchased the deluxe advertising-free version of the service).
Various 'core' dieties symbols will be replaced by branding from sponsors. The god of effervescent has a Coke symbol, for instance, while the goddess of speed and athleticism has a Nike 'holy symbol.' M&M mars will sponsor Clerics of the god of energy, whose symbol is a handful of colored candies. They Turn Undead by shouting 'Taste the Rainbow!' and invoking a hail of multicolored candies that shower down upon the target area.
Cities will compete for a chance to be the 'iconic city,' and instead of Greyhawk or Waterdeep or Sharn, the new 'core setting city' will be a fantasy tweaked version of Chicago, with participating shops and merchants represented by online versions of their actual stores (which link to their actual websites, for shopping convenience). As your character buys a sword from 'Blade-Mart,' popups will remind the player that Wal-Mart also sells an assortment of sporting goods, including survival knives, and check out our cutlery section!

David Jackson 60 |

1) Seeing is Dragonborn will have boobs, and for some reason every argument about the dragonborn somehow includes a reference to the platypus, all dragonborn casters will automatically get a platypus for their familar. The default name for this familiar will be called "Dragonboobs" if not properly named.
2) Gnomes and Dwarves, given their closness of relation will now be able to breed with each other producing a new race comming out in the later handbook called Dwomes.
3) Square for movement are actually being replace with triangles.
4) Wizard impliments won't be neccessary to cast, but the range without them for all spells will be 1 square... er 2 triangles.
5) The King Kong, Godzilla, Papa Smurf, Barbra Streisand, Easter Bunny, and Santa Claus will all be in the MM as Epic-level threats.
6) Monks will now have a more Indian flavor to them and will replicate the skills and style of Dhalsim from Street Fighter 2.
7) Professional Wrestling will be considered a legit fighting skill and will have it's own progression tree availible for the melee classes.
8) Loinclothes and chainmail bikinis will now have legitimate AC bonuses by adding double your charisma modifier to your AC.
9) Being fat will now add extra armor class points to your character, and will make it harder for enemies to use their "kidnap humanoid" special attack.
10) Magical tattoos and piercings will now be a big part of the game, but will lower your loot automatically by 20%, due to lack of realistic employment opportunities for your character.

Charles Evans 25 |
[tinfoil hat on] Wizards of the Coast/Hasbro are behind the 'pirate' download available of 4E. This rumour in itself is not wildly speculative. The wildly speculative part is that each pirate download has been infected with a virus, which will remove by means of electronic funds transfers the price of 10 sets of core rulebooks for 4E from the bank accounts of anyone who downloaded the 'pirate' copy, if at all possible, moving the money to Hasbro's accounts. The virus was originally intended to only charge for 1 set of 4E core rules, but someone accidentally wrote in an extra '0'. [tinfoil hat off] As a consequence a witch hunt is now being carried out at Hasbro to find the perpetrator.
Fortunately for the D & D section, they are quite skilled Ravenloft players, so have been able to ensure that suspicion sticks elsewhere, and word is that a certain senior My Little Pony executive may be asked to throw himself/herself in a local river to see if he/she floats or sinks at the end of the week. Mike Mearls has been reported investing heavily in marshmallows for the anticipated barbecue afterwards.... :D
Edit:
Alas, wth 4E due out soon, this may well be the last wildly speculative rumour I get to post, since once the beast is out in the open, the scope for rumour vanishes. Thank you to whomever it was who started this thread*.
*Assumed to be mwbeeler, but on the Paizo boards, with vanishing posts, you never quite know.

Patrick Curtin |

In a nod to MMORPG gamers of the Everquest persuasion, the Outer Plane cosmology will be replaced by one plane, the Astral Plane of Waiting. Through DDI interface, players will be able to take their characters there with the proper gate. At this plane many bored spellcasters will loiter, waiting for a group to show up to play with and casting 'buffing' spells on others for astral diamonds.

Tatterdemalion |

4E will enlarge your penis. Buy now while they're still in stock!
It's true! My wife's penis is now twice the size it was in 3.5!
ROFLMAO :)
Are you guys playing D&D or F.A.T.A.L.?