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These are very good points, which is to say that I agree with them. My concern was about direct analogs, particularly those based mostly on skin tone.

Here is a good example of the genre. The connection to warlocks should be obvious.

I agree with this. Ket strikes me as the ideal place to put Castle Ravenloft and Strahd von Zorovich, if you're inclined to put them on Oerth.

No, they're not. They're a fantasy race with no real-world parallel. They're described as having kinky hair and they originated from the southernmost extremes of the Flanaess map (and, in many cases, stayed there, moving only slightly west into the Amedio Jungle when the Sea of Dust drank their...

Also, he has a fetching mustache.

I think the chances must be close to 100% that The Princess Bride is playing on some cable station at any given time.

In my head, the eladrins fought with Chaos until Chaos was decisively defeated, at which point the forces of Chaos turned against one another, each side blaming the other for the loss. But that might be seen as too petty for celestials; that's where the idea that the baatezu (led by Prince...

There was only ever one Zerthimon. He died in the battle with Gith.

Dungeon #129, page 47. From your archomental article, it looks like Ogremoch, Imix, Cryonax, and Olhydra were on the side of Chaos, while Yan-C-Bin, Chan, Sunnis, and Ben-Hadar fought with Law. Zaaman Rul probably wasn't born yet, but there might have been a different Elemental Prince of Fiery...

Bwimb was allied with the Queen of Chaos, but it seems to be implied that Bwimb II's relationship with Juiblex is a new innovation, a demonstration that she is more resourceful than her father (who, you'll remember, Tenebrous thought was simply pathetic). Here's a character I don't think...

Zaerith Menyar Ag-Gith, the Great Githzerai, was first named and classed in the 1st edition Manual of the Planes. The Planes of Chaos version of him is pretty much identical. The Floating City, the githzerai center of mysticism and magic, was originally from the 1e MotP as well. Shr'akt'lor...

The Galchutt would work very well as obyriths (from Fiendish Codex I), though I prefer them as Far Realm critters personally. Lilith could want to free them simply because she believes they are offering her power.

The 2e illustration of them (by Adam Rex) was much cooler.

Note that co-author Samuel Weiss is a Planescape fan.

I believe this book contains the first 3.x mention of Zerthimon, however. He seems to have been intentionally left out all of Bruce Cordell's descriptions of the gith. As for the book, I am indifferent to it, so indifferent that I will not bother to rate it, let alone buy it. The class/race...

I agree, but read Thud! by Terry Pratchett for a really excellent characterization of Deep Dwarves.

Not for a base ogre mage, not in D&D 3.5. But sorcerers and wizards are rare and exceptional among humans; there are surely as many classed ogre magi, proportionately, as there are classed humans (though I suppose that's arguable). Ordinary humans have no power to transform or charm. Ordinary...

Exactly. Because fantastic devil propaganda is much more realistic. I think yugoloths pretty much had to be elevated to the state that Hellbound and Faces of Evil had them, as making them interesting was something of an uphill battle. A race that had been established previously as nothing more...

I'm not necessarily taking sides here - I just observed that the abilities Gygax et al gave the ogre mage were similar to the grab-bag of abilities the vampire got - charm, turn into mist, fly, the ability to pass among humans (which isn't supernatural for a vampire). This seems to be the...

It's not so much that the ogre mage's abilities were random - they suited a purpose. The purpose, essentially, was to make them vampires in the Bram Stoker sense. Charm wasn't necessarily for using in attacking PCs (though that was a valid tactic in the days before CR). The ogre mage turns...