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This is such a great idea!

This looks so awesome!

Could you have a social focused class that was all about mundane buffs, debuffs and combat maneuvers? I don't know if anyone's played Malifaux (Tabletop skirmish game), but there's a crew you can take that's lead by a guy called Lucius who's a bureaucrat. He's not that good at fighting but he's...

Does this mean I'll finally have to figure out how I'm supposed to pronounce 'Drizzt'?!

Aren't they called 'bastard swords' because they're the bastard children of one-handed and two-handed swords?

I can't imagine something like that happening. I tend to shut down anything like that by laughing and saying something like 'Yep, I'm a massive geek'. It doesn't really leave them with much ammunition when you take ownership of it.

I'm going to have to name my next PC 'Zwentibold' now! This one's pretty good as well: http://fantasynamegenerators.com/

I wasn't actually making any particular statements about whether or not Tolkien should or shouldn't have included more diversity in Middle Earth, I was just stating that Middle Earth wasn't a particularly good example of a diverse setting. Sure, there are dwarves, elves, hobbits, etc., so it's...

Because the market is growing and diversifying and it's in a company's best interests to foster an environment that's less hostile to their customers/potential customers. You say that it will probably always 'primarily attract males' but I don't think that's necessarily true. The female gamer...

There's a good comic strip involving Batman that covers this but I'm on my work computer and my internet access is limited (not sure why I can get onto ENworld to be honest).

I was thinking more along the lines that Tolkien's diversity hardly counts when all you've got is white humans, white elves, white dwarves or white hobbits. I probably shouldn't have used absolutist terms like 'invariably' but that's not what I was getting at at all. There's no doubt that...

Oh yeah, with the diversity, it probably only feels forced because it's different to the status quo. I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic here...

With cheesecake art, first of all it's the issue that people have already mentioned regarding how impractical it all is. I know it's a fantasy world but there's only so far I can suspend my disbelief. Secondly, it's the fact that it's so unbelievably biased towards satisfying the straight male...

I like the halfling artwork myself but it doesn't really matter that much when you've got the entire internet at your disposal. If you don't like how something's represented in the books you can just do a Google/Pinterest image search to find a version you prefer. I don't really like what...

Quoted for truth!

I don't really want to play with players who can't deal with the fact that some ogres are weaker than others (or that some ogres' mothers are weaker than other ogres' mothers).

Hmm...well that's a nice alternate way of looking at it!

Knowing a monster's hit points isn't something that the players should know about. Even if they've slavishly learned every detail of the Monster Manual, that's something the DM should be able to switch up anyway. Using the knowledge they've gained from the Monster Manual is metagame thinking. I...

I have no problem with changing an arbitrary number that the players are unaware of in the middle of a fight if it makes the fight better in some way. I would also have no problem if the DM did it in a game I was playing.

I think I'd like to DM a game! What are people's favourite published adventures for introducing people to Eberron?