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D&D has always tried to walk a really narrow, shaky, tightrope. It's trying to be a complete set rules and background information that can cover every situation, while also letting you play in any world or campaign setting you want. This is an almost impossible needle to tread.

Lets not look at the Drizzt books as a positive example. The Drizzt books, and to a greater extent, the drow race itself, are just dripping with racism and fetishized misogamy. Do you really think "All Drow are inherently evil and have no free will, and we kill them on sight, except for our...

The problem with species being "inherently evil" is they can also be PCs. Inherently evil creatures are fine, see undead and fiends. Just don't let players choose them. You can't have your cake and eat it to. A creature is either an inherently evil monster that you kill on sight, or a...

You can't argue with science.

This "specific instance" was a campaign guide for Mystara, TSR's main campaign setting setting at the time, explaining the place of orcs in the world. It also wasn't just the view of one racist writer. There were artists, editors, and management involved in the project as well. It doesn't...

They weren't meant as racial stand-ins, except when they where deliberately, incredibly, racist stand-in for minority groups. See The Orcs of Thar and "Chief Sitting Drool". Yep nothing racist there. I don't know how people keep getting the idea d&d monsters are racially coded.

That isn't the situation though. Fighter B doesn't get Alert for free, while Fighter A get nothing. Fighter A gets a background feature instead of a feat. Sure the starting feats give more mechanical effects and MORE NUMBERS, and the background feats are more roleplaying features, but in the...

Its even worse then you make it sound. The quote Gary Gygax was using to explain why it is Morally Good is murder defenseless orc children, was literally the words a racist genocidal child murderer officially used to justify his genocide. Colonel John Chivington was the commanding officer of...

What exactly is the nerf with hiding and invisibility? The set D.C. 15 to hide? Worse against random mooks but better against perceptive leaders and bosses. The set D.C. to hide also means that most other characters that aren't specialized in stealth are going to have a much harder time...

WotC also claimed the 4E Essentials would be fully compatible with original 4e, and guess what, It was. You could have a 4E and an essentials characters playing together at the same table with no problems what so ever. Characters built under either system could use powers from either, and the...

One thing people are overlooking with the new crit rules is that it opens up more design space for weapons. Now that you can't double extra damage dice on a crit you can more easily expand the crit range on weapons without rouges and paladins being brokenly overpowered. For example: Rapier...

I for one am glad they got rid of the delay action. I feel like the delay action is one of those rules that is either never used by a group, except in rare circumstances and doesn't really cause problems, or used all of the time and becomes very metagamey and really slows down the game. In...