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For instance, isnt this a better Smite Evil for a first level paladin?

Smite Evil Paladin Attack 1

Your weapon shines with holy radiance as you strike your evil foe.

At-Will • Divine, Radiant, Weapon

Standard Action Melee weapon

Target: One Evil creature

Attack: Strength vs. AC

Hit: 1[W] + Strength modifier radiant damage. If you marked the target you gain an additional bonus to the damage roll equal to your Wisdom modifier.

Increase damage to 2[W] + Strength modifier at 21st level.

Prismatic DM wrote:

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I think that's a fine substitute for Holy Strike. I'd like to see "evil" in the target line of many paladin powers.

I agree. The ones I am working on do have that.

To me, this every class having 5 powers here, then 3 powers there then 4 powers here, etc, just doesnt make sense. They shouldnt be all the same. A fighter is not a wizard. That said, each class should be best at what they are supposed to do best: paladins should destroy evil like nothing else, a fighter should hit better and do more damage, a ranger should nuke you with a bow like nobody's business, a rogue should be sneaky and stealthy. At the game table, the rogue should not hit more and harder than the fighter. The cleric should not be better at blasting evil than the paladin. The warlock should not be more magical than the wizard. In fact, there shouldnt even be a warlock.

I am distilling the classes to their core and focusing on those. They dont all get skills and abilites that same way and at the same time. Fighters are better at melee. Paladins better at melee with evil. Rangers better with ranged and in the wilderness. Druids have animals and plants and spells. Clerics are either evil or good and domains need to return (they are fun). Wizards should be the arcane bad asses. In my vision, and with 4E, memorization returns but in a fun way. You know a certain set of spells, and you can memorize and cast a lesser number. Then you choose which you cast. For instance, lets say you know 10 3rd level spells, of those you can memorize 6 and case 4 per encounter or day or whatever. You choose the 6 you memorize between every extended rest. But which ones you cast, that's up to you. If its fireball 4 times, go crazy. Of course, spells will be re-leveled to match which of the three tiers spells should go in under 4E. But I'm getting ahead of myself.

The point here is not to replace 4E. Its to supplement it. My paladin for example, will be the "Paladin [Classic]." You can have "normal" 4E paladins if you want. There is nothing here that will flat replace the PHB. And for instance, though we provide elves and dwarves and stuff and DONT include dragonborn or warforged that doesnt mean you cant use warforged or dragonborn. You can. The point is that everything I do with this "classic D&D" supplement for 4E will work perfectly with 4E. It will just play more like the way you are used to. Now, is there a part of me that wants to rip 4E apart and do it my way? Yes. But that doesnt make sense. I want people to be able to buy any 4E adventure or product and use this rules supplement we create with it.

Wait a minute. Is that a new news item on the front page of the Necro site?

February 29, 2009: Big things are on the horizon for Necromancer Games!

First, With the upcoming release of the final version of the Pathfinder rules from long-time partner Paizo Publishing, look for Necromancer to begin supporting that system. "Erik and Lisa and everyone at Paizo are the absolute best. With Pathfinder, they have perfected the branch of D&D that started with 3E and grew to 3.5. Its an amazing system," says Clark Peterson, president of Necromancer Games. "We are in discussions now with our friends at Paizo on how best to support Pathfinder," Peterson says.

Second, Peterson finally reveals plans to bring First Edition Feel to 4E: "In addition to our support for Pathfinder, we believe in supporting the most current official version of D&D--and that is 4E. We plan to create a community-sponsored, grass-roots development of some old-school rules alternatives for 4E, not to replace 4E but to supplement it. To let old school gamers like me play the game we want but with the modern rules and the modern tech," Peterson says. "Keep an eye on our site and boards in the coming months as we start this process. A design team is in place. But we intend to enlist the help of all of you--the real old school players--to help design the rules that you think are lacking, much like Paizo used an open playtest to develop the Pathfinder rules."

And in more news, look for a redsign of the Necromancer site coming soon, along with a hosting switch over. "If you notice a glitch with the site in the next week or month, don't be alarmed. The sacrifices and rituals are going according to plan, but demon princes are so finicky," Peterson says.

PS--yes, the date is being changed to March 1

I plan on blending wizards and sorcerers. In other words, a wizard will know X spells of a spell level, can memorize Y spells of that level and then can cast Z numbers of spells of that level.

Lets say you can know up to 8 level 1 spells. You can memorize up to 5, for istance. And you can cast up to 3 per encounter.

So lets say you know spell A, B, C, D, E, F and G (you could know 1 more, you just havent learned that many yet) and you memorize A, C, E, F and G. Then you can cast 3 of those spells per encounter. A short rest recharges the memorized spells for your use again. That is right, if one of those spells was fireball, you could cast fireball 3 times.

Now, I am contemplating some spells being "daily" spells. To cast more than one of those per encounter, you would have to memorize it more than once.

Using the above example, lets say "fireball" is F and it is a "daily" spell. You can get around this by just memorizing it twice: for instance, you memorize A, C, E and Fx2. That way, if fireball is a daily, you could use it twice in an encounter. See what I mean?

Sort of a combo encounter/daily system with the old school spells known/spells prepared system with spell points mixed in for fun