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Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2007 7:07 pm

Geniuses. All of them ... from the marketing drones all the way down to their webmaster. Geniuses.

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Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2007 7:12 pm

improvstone wrote:Well maybe all the praying for WotC to rot in hell has paid off

imperialists claim too much!! fatwa had already been issued. news report just in on aljazeera

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Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2007 7:18 pm

Rakeesh sah Tarna wrote:imperialists claim too much!! fatwa had already been issued. news report just in on aljazeera

That picture is fantastic ....

I just realised it is the whole wizards.com domain which is down. At first I thought it was just the promo link.

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Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2007 7:21 pm

http://www.wizarduniverse.com/magazine/ ... 672645.cfm has a bit more info.

Apparently tieflings are going to become a race in the core books at the expense of one of the current ones. :roll:

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Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2007 7:32 pm

Well...have to buy new books I guess....which is the point, isn't it?

The only thing I am concerned about is that the new game will be too miniatures oriented. I have no intention of buying miniatures...at the moment.

Hey! Maybe that means that some stores will now dump off their Dungeon Crawl Classics and cool stuff like that! Gotta love that!

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Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2007 7:37 pm

Gleemax.com is spearheading the company's conquest of the Internet,

Microsoft tried it and failed ..... Great looking site .... NOT!

at Gen Con, Wizards announced the Fourth Edition of Dungeons & Dragons.

... by shutting down their web site

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Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2007 7:41 pm

4 Review wrote:And the mage and barbarian might get along a little better thanks to revamped spell recovery rules that won't do away with the need to rest to replenish spells, but will give players more options to recover spells and in-game incentives to do something other than call nappy-time every two encounters.

So does this mean my 1st level Super Wizard, who is able to shit lightning bolts, will now never run out of spells in battle ....?

So the focus is still on using strength/power to get what you want rather than brains/strategy ....

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Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2007 7:46 pm

improvstone wrote:
... by shutting down their web site

enough for now

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Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2007 7:48 pm

So... Who wants to see what a Beholder looks like in 4e? :twisted:

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Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2007 7:52 pm

g026r wrote:So... Who wants to see what a Beholder looks like in 4e?

Actually, that looks pretty cool.

Now maybe PC's will have a reason to be afraid of them..

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Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2007 7:56 pm

I'm curious if they'll be able to make a flumph threatening looking. :clown:

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Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2007 11:43 pm

I hate to say this...but the virtual gaming table looks INCREDIBLE (don't jump on me all at once!)

A virtual table, where the DM can draw maps, place virtual miniatures, and even post pictures of what players "see?"

Color me impressed...although I would probably want to use this feature with 1E or 2E.....hmmm...

(Ok...now be nice! I just said the VIRTUAL GAMING TABLE looked good, not 4E as a whole...)

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Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2007 11:58 pm

Center_Stage_Hobbies wrote:I hate to say this...but the virtual gaming table looks INCREDIBLE (don't jump on me all at once!)

A virtual table, where the DM can draw maps, place virtual miniatures, and even post pictures of what players "see?"

Color me impressed...although I would probably want to use this feature with 1E or 2E.....hmmm...

(Ok...now be nice! I just said the VIRTUAL GAMING TABLE looked good, not 4E as a whole...)

I take it you have seen this at Gencon? Or is it online somehwere?

Wizards still isn't :twisted:

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Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2007 12:09 am

FormCritic wrote:
Actually, that looks pretty cool.

Now maybe PC's will have a reason to be afraid of them..

Bah. Hate it.

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Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2007 12:29 am

tdewey10 wrote:
Bah. Hate it.

And if you have some spare time on your hands you can make an origami version:

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Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2007 12:47 am

Truly, beauty is in the eye .............. (yes I know - the old ones are the best though!)

You can never have too much of something you didn't need in the first place.

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Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2007 1:51 am

Improvstone, these links were still working earlier tonight - if you catch the two YouTube videos on the right hand side, there's 16 minutes of info about D&D 4E.

To me, the only thing that looks worthwhile is the "virtual gaming table," but then again, it's too early to tell - but I'm still not optimistic.

http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=we ... gencon07#9

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Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2007 2:06 am

Center_Stage_Hobbies wrote:Improvstone, these links were still working earlier tonight - if you catch the two YouTube videos on the right hand side, there's 16 minutes of info about D&D 4E.

To me, the only thing that looks worthwhile is the "virtual gaming table," but then again, it's too early to tell - but I'm still not optimistic.

http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=we ... gencon07#9

Thanks CSH. I saw them once the Wizards site came back online...

How embarrasing. Your entire site dies at Gen Con when you are in the middle of a launch and the Insider site is still not up.. :twisted:

If I did that to my clients they would have every right to kill me <improv quickly checks to see if the Piper site is still up - yup all is OK, Rob can relax now >

It will be interesting to see if it can be customised to suit 1e games. Hopefully they haven't built it too heavy. Otherwise play time will crawl. Especially for those who still don;t have fast connections.

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