Yeah so right after I rescued two babies and a cat from a fire I got to read the books for a while.

They look really really good.  I mean both that the art and the layout are really asthetically pleasing but all the rules and meaty stuff that I looked over made a lot of sense.

So if you've any questions or concerns I'll do my best to answer them.

Skills.  No more skill points.  So now your just trained or untrained in a skill, and you have a certain list of skills from your class you can be trained in and humans get to be trained in one extra skill.  If your trained you get a like a +5 to the check, and if your not you can still try it with your ability score bonus.  I'm guessing you can be trained in more skills with feats or leveling up but I didn't check in that much detail.

Tumbling for instance isn't a skill any more but a special power that only rouges can get.

Holy crap, could you e-mail those pdfs to me?

I mean, so I can look through them between bear fights and time spent in the hot-tub with supermodels.

I think a reimaginging of D&D is long overdue, and apparantly this edition finally jettisons the crap 3rd ed left hanging on.

I'm excited.

They have a thing called D&D Insider, which is basically something you subscribe to on their site and it gives you access to some programs, lets you play D&D online. Like a program that lets you make a character and import it into another program which is basically a map simulator with a voice over dealy and a die randomizer so you can play online. It is supposedly A BIG DEAL. Depending on how much they charge for it, if there's any interest, we can get a big ol' nerdy PWOT game of D&D going.

Oh balls yes.

Since I'm buying a hundred dollars worth of books anyhow I'd hope I might get a month or three free anyhow.

I really do hope 4E turns out to be an improvement.  I'm in the middle of building a campaign for my gaming group and I'm going to give 4E a shot since one of them is buying all the core books.  I'll probably buy them as well, if only to have a few extras so we don't have to pass around the PH when it comes time to level up.  I wasn't too impressed with some of the changes made in 4E, especially the changing around of races and classes, but I can deal, and from what I hear those are just a small portion of what's changed.  I was even going to add in my campaign a few features that are included by default in 4E, so I'm not against it even if I'm not overly excited for it.  Even if I don't use 4E for my campaign I'd still be up for joining an online PWOT game.

Try weakly, shark road. Eos!

Would this work?


http://www.fantasygrounds.com/home/

Well as I said Keth I'm down for this, all over it like pedophile jam spread on a piece of nubile young toast.



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what?

I would also be interested in such a game. My experience with D&D sounds a lot like Reverend's, but I've always wanted to give it a proper go. As long as it's not stupidly expensive.

Let's do it!

*clicks button on screen that makes rolls dice*

I'd play some D&D with you guys, too. As long as we're in close enough time zones.