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(Originally posted by Darien)

Trent Oster, Producer:

Movement: Movement rates are a serious issue and we are going to finalize them quite late in development. We are dedicated to making a fun game experience and we will choose the option which is the best for gameplay, single player and multiplayer. Creature speeds range from immobile to Very fast, with fast and very fast creatures able to catch PCs and normal speed to immobile creatures are slower than PCs. We want this to be a relative standard, otherwise the Halfings and Gnomes would always fall behind and force the party to stop and aid them. Damn little munchkins anyway

Fudging Rolls: Combat fudging is an integral part of Dungeons and Dragons Dungeon Mastering. The DM client has a difficulty slider on the main GUI which allows you to real-time toggle the rolls without advising the players. To the right, next hit kills, to the left, no players can die. In between allows you to tailor the gameplay as you desire. After all, what fun is a session where everyone dies every three minutes.

Bob McCabe, Writing & Design:

Height transitions: There are no height transitions in the forest tile set - otherwise you'd be able to see over the non-existent tree tops

There is no falling into bottomless pits, but the script/area transition/imagination work-around is perfectly and easily workable.

I don't believe there is a bottomless chasm in the rural tileset, but things are changing almost daily. In addition, since you do have height transitions, you could probably fudge something pretty easily, especially with fog

Building Spaces: It sort of works like that. This is kind of difficult to explain, but you can select a building tile and it works like water. You click on one spot, and you have one pond or one house. You hold the button down and go one tile to the right, and you now have a river or a set of two connected buildings. You can turn the river into a lake, and just the same, turn two buildings into one large square of 4 connected buildings.

And... since the buildings overlap the actual tiles, you can create awesome alley-ways by dropping down a building, and then dropping down a second building next to it. It's like painting an inverted road, if that isn't too confusing to conjure (i.e. paint the grass left of the road, then paint the grass right of the road)

Maybe that is what it should be called (Smart Draw)? Who knows? I'll have to ask Don M This is (smart draw?), by the way, how most of the terrain (i.e. not groups, not features) choices work (i.e. water, wall, building, road, etc.).