Dragon magazine’s latest Design & Development column discusses the upcoming changes to magic items that 4E will bring. For those who have played CRPGs, the concept of slots to represent places on the body that items could be worn/held, and to limit the number of items that can be used at once. Dungeons & Dragons [...]
4E casts mage’s disjunction
Filed under D&D 4E Preview on January 24, 2008
Keywords: 4E, Dungeons and Dragons, magic items
A hundred years from now
Filed under D&D 4E Preview on January 15, 2008
Keywords: 4E, Dungeons and Dragons, Forgotten Realms
If you haven’t heard yet, Rich Baker revealed that the fourth edition of Dungeons & Dragons will advance the Forgotten Realms timeline to 1479. That’s more than 100 years from the current setting. (I’m basing this on the year listed in recently released FR novels.)
The Spellplague alluded to in the Grand History of the Realms [...]
4E SRD and OGL
Filed under D&D 4E Preview on January 9, 2008
Keywords: 4E, d20, Wizards of the Coast
Wizards of the Coast announced their plans for the release of a 4th edition System Reference Document and Open Gaming License yesterday. Unlike 3rd edition (IIRC), there will be a Designer’s Kit that publishers can purcharse. This kit will allow publishers an early look (January 2008) at the core rules and the right to publish [...]
Sneak peeks at 4E
Filed under D&D 4E Preview on December 14, 2007
Keywords: 4E, Dungeons and Dragons
I’ve been following the Design & Development column of the new, online Dragon magazine (warning: you must have a D&D Insider account–currently free–to access the content). For the most part, the column has been providing glimpses of the upcoming 4th Edition of Dungeons & Dragons. When 4E was announced at GenCon, I was most excited [...]
