Satori

POOR MYSTRA. She has to die every time they change edition.

SINGLE-class with fighter/mage-ish abilities, and Cha based? Bard w/snowflake wardance or Hexblade is all i can think of.

And yeah, in epic, anyone who doesn't have Epic Spellcasting or Epic Manifesting is basically a meat puppet.

Any system where I have to stop and ad hoc rules for something more than twice per session is incomplete and I'm not paying money for it.

This is why I will not be buying Feng Shui, Exalted (or for that matter, anything by white wolf- FWIH, the only game they have that is decently set up is Vampire, and i hate the "you must be emo fluff" of that), or D&D 4th edition.

Honesty, D&D 4th edition is a perfectly good game... If you take out the D&D part of the name and compare it to say, Feng Shui or any other Combat focused RPG, instead of thinking about it in terms of 3.5 or AD&D 2.0. From that perspective you have a VERY solid system that is balanced and smooth.

If you do think of it as a successor to 3.4 of 2.0 it fails horribly due to massive reduction in scope. But arguably, D&D 4e wasn't meant to have that much scope, and it's a little unfair to expect that. Then again, if they meant to cut it down that much, they shouldn't have raised our expectations by giving it the D&D name.

Alas, I always use that broad scope when I play, so 4th simply isn't sufficient for my play style.

Well, I still haven't actually played D&D 4th Edition, and it looks like my PnP group will probably be playing Star Wars Sage Edition (somthing about a jedi Revan, who was trying to recruit skilled jedi to fight the Mandalorians, but he had to be satisfied with us) and when our current 3.5 campaign finishes there's a general desire to try something that isn't D&D for a time. S

Have you played KOTOR, by any chance?

and 4th edition makes me sad. I liked being able to bend reality to my will as a caster, even if it was unfair to the poor sword swingers.

If a movies as straightforward as Lola makes you scream weird, I'd wonder what The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya would do you?