Will drow be dark elves or dark eladrin?

[Aage]

Will the designers please put a rule in that says, "This game was not written by lawyers. Please do not interpret the rules as if they were a legal code. If something makes little sense, or leads to an unpleasant play experience, feel free to use common sense instead."?

I'm pretty sure they consider that rule common sense.

A moose once bit my sister...

Why not semster in sweden this year? See the lovely lakes. And the wonderful telecom system. (Actually it is, really, rather wonderful. I guess you'll have to take my word for it)

 

[hafrogman]

A moose once bit my sister...

Mynd yøu, møøse bytes kan be pretti nasti.

 

[Varianor Abroad]

Coming soon from Disney Pictures, Drowladdin! The tale of a boy who might be a dark elf, might be a dark eladrin, whose all heart and a magic carpet. Oh yeah, he has a genie cohort who kicks, well you know.

 

[Tewligan]

If horses lose their bite attack, I will refuse to buy into this travesty of a game.

 

[Tewligan]

I went to high school with a girl who was missing half of her right ear. A horse bit it off.

I assume that she was a boxer, and therefore presented a tempting cauliflower ear to the horse.

 

[shadewest]

Let Drow be Drow

Drow are no longer elves. They get promoted to full racial status. Grey/Sun elves are now eladrin. Wood/Wild/Sylvan elves are now just elves. Dark Elves are now drow. They are now all fey, instead of all subraces of elf. It's a purely semantic difference to me. I can see that soon 4e will become as overpopulated with playable fey races as 3e was with elf subraces. They've juggled names, nothing more.

 

[The Little Raven]

They've juggled names, nothing more.

And eliminated the needless distinction between wild/wood and high/gray, which actually reduced the number by two. Gives me hope that the super elf-a-philia that plagued D&D throughout second edition (as demonstrated by the lovely "Complete Elven Supremacists' Handbook") is getting chopped pretty hard.

 

[shadewest]

And eliminated the needless distinction between wild/wood and high/gray, which actually reduced the number by two.

Ok I'll give you that and I'm grateful for it. I just hope that don't try to put them back in sideways in later splatbooks, renamed.