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They could go Nethack and have also grey and black unicorns...

I have an issue with the absolute "no one" here. I see use for races that are irrevocably evil to the core in swords and magic fantasy. That doesn't mean that that should be the norm for villains. Bringing up Lord of the Rings, you have human evil caused by greed, fear and whatnot, and absolute...

I don't like green.

I wonder how many of the target audience gets to see an article buried in the WotC website that you need to log on to see it. Especially when the site is so wonky I myself can't log on my existing account. Really, I'd like to have few words about accessibility with someone over there.

I agree - there isn't much difference. It would be like giving Warlocks powersource called Infernal or Bards witth Music as their powersource, Rogues being Stealth strikers instad of Martial ones and so on and on. It would defeat the purpose of the powersources to give each class it's own.

Figures. Geeky music for a geeky hobby... :p

It kinda was in the 80'ies. Anyway, since this is rather pointless thread: In before the lock! :lol:

That's the beauty of RPGs - you get to visit places you never tought seeing. :)

The thing is nowdays you have two orc archtypes. The newer one is a savage but more or less of noble orc (Morrowind etc.). The older versions is Tolkien's kannibalistic, brutal and hateful demons in mortal flesh. The former makes fine PCs and fill the savage type hole in PC race types, the...

Not perhaps excatly to my tastes, but looks like Wizards have solid art direction going on, which is good thing. A mouth would be nice, though.

Then again, pretty much everything in the rules is specialized. I'd argue freezing on a glazier, getting diseased in a jungle or picking herbs in an idyllic forest is more generic than, say, the Red Wizard prestige class. ps. Ahnehnois, I stand corrected. As a matter of fact, I think the icicle...

The question in nutshell: Should the 4th Ed make the enviroment or climate the PCs are operating in more prominent feature in the game than what the 3rd Ed did? The more verbose version: I recall browsing trough the artic themed D&D splat book, and seeing all sorts of cold enemating weapons...

World of Warcraft managed to make gnomes unique race with clear and fun identity. Surely WotC is can do that too. I won't mind if they outright copy WoW if that's what it takes. :]

That's reassuring. I have missed this bit of info. You got a link?

Excatly! Hitting vital body parts sound like Coup de Grace, not criticial strike as presented in D&D rules. D&D crits are more like seeing opening in creature's defence and getting exeptionally solid hit in. Which means any creatire that can be damaged by a weapons should also be crittable...

Gnomes should kill halflings and take their stuff. What self respecting race tolerates being called a half of something anyway?

Well, the known testers could be pressurized by 3rd parties to tell more. Much harder if they don't know who is and is not a tester. :p

Blue!

It has been the lawfull/chaotic axis of the aligment system that I have found problematic, not good/evil axis. So removing aligment but making the assumed setting black and white is not contradictory at all.

Speaking of animalistic, why not rename tiefling to changeling, and leave their heritage more vague. Maybe they have fiend blood, or/and fey blood, or/and even celestial blood. I think same mechanics would serve for all heritages. Would be make good paraller to warlock class too. Too late I...