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I may have missed this in all the chatter about the 4th edition preview "Races and Classes", but does the book have a write up for half-elves like it does for the other main PC races (including new entries like the tiefling and dragonborn)? I admit to hoping that with half-orcs dropping out of...

I ran a game like this, knew that my player wanted a fey/forest-based campaign, gave her a unicorn to help with melee fighting and healing to balance out her bow-focused ranger. Personalization makes it better than a group sometimes, but not having back-up party members makes it harder to...

Thri-kreen in Darksun and also in the old spaceship-fantasy game (I forget the name) where it was very appropriate. Dragon in an all-dragon campaign. Lizardfolk are a favorite of mine. My son liked playing an earth elemental (he's young, so it worked really well). I also DM, so I play lots...

This is the reasoning that I have used in my campaigns. Humans stand in the middle of many other races, the average that all are measured against, and the physical norm from which other humanoids are straying to a greater or lesser extent. But since that is the humans' perspective, and it has...

After playing for a while, and without them asking, I sat down with my parents when I was 14 and walked them through the game, explaining that as DM I decided what happened in the story and what monsters appeared. I showed them the devils and demons in the AD&D MM and said that I would not be...

This was my point exactly -- on a lawful plane you would expect people to read the fine print on this "marriage" contract.

So this more or less shows that tieflings were not always illustrated as "almost humans" in previous editions? I don't like the big 4ed horns either, but I like them better than the goat legs.

Baseless speculation: I think that in the 4th edition Players' Handbook, there will be at least one race (eladrin, with the wizarding focus) that gets a mental ability score bonus (Intelligence, in this case). Why do I think so: Assumption 1. In the past, the argument against mental stats...

I would like to buy masterwork quivers that hold more than 20 arrows. I would like to buy jewel-encrusted quivers to match the rest of my gaudy outfit. I am glad that I am the DM, so I can do all these things.

I've been putting together a water-based campaign (yes, with 4e just around the corner I am starting a 3.5e campaign). And the sahuagin are really odd. Two points, one minor, the other almost a campaign-breaker: 1. Alignment: Mostly lawful, but fly into a blood frenzy when damaged. (This...

When I showed this thread to my wife (conservative, religious, 3 kids, etc.) this was her thought exactly. What I am seeing is railing at D&D art in specific for perceived excesses in art in general.

Yes, yes, yes, yes, AMEN!

Ding ding ding. This is why I am not going to be waiting at the door for the book to come out. Let them get some free editing from the community first, and fix (a few) of the errors for a second printing.

Is there anyone else here that is planning on waiting to get the 4e books until after a second printing where they get around to fixing typos and misprints? This was one of my pet peeves about the 3.x books, that the first printings seemed riddled with rules errors, misspellings, and...

Which system? D&D equivalents? d20 Modern? Mutants and Masterminds?