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It's also worth remembering that in the basic source for Halflings -- that is, the Lord of the Rings -- the halflings are not killing machines. Two of their noteworthy blows in the story -- against the troll that struck down Beregond, and against the Witch-King of Angmar -- were delivered by...

But not too many human three-year-olds have testosterone. If you blew a 3-year-old up to 6 feet tall, they'd be a lot weaker than a 6-foot-tall 30-year-old. A LOT weaker. They aren't made to do heavy physical work yet, or fight, because they're not supposed to. I agree that a 3-foot-tall adult...

I'd vote for shorter, myself. The business model is based on 'crunch' books, and the more those proliferate, the clumsier any system gets. I feel that 4e is probably going to start out quite streamlined -- so did 3e, really -- but the whole idea of a new PHB annually is going to make it get...

I'll agree with this. There are skills that anyone can try, like swimming, climbing, listening, etc., and there are ones that you just can't do without training and/or experience. I, for example, would fail miserably at any kind of riding skill check in real life ;) .... I'm not sure I could...

Um .... what exactly is a "racist stereotype" about modeling fictional characters, very loosely, on an actual culture? Is it taboo to mention identifiable characteristics of actual cultures nowadays? Is showing someone wearing a kerchief and standing in front of a wagon actually some kind of...

They're kind of like kender dipped in grey paint .... kender in a drab and colorless form, in short ....

True, but at that point, the publishers weren't all making AD&D 2nd edition books. It's different this time around, because nearly everyone is in a rules-system boat which WotC just torpedoed, accidentally or not, and is sinking. Last time it was everyone heading for the bandwagon -- this time...

Well, isn't that part of the reason for the SRD and the edition change in the first place? It allowed WotC to pick the brains of the competition for free (since rules based on the SRD are pretty much the property of WotC, thanks to the very hazy wording of IP in the SRD concept), and see what...

More options for a pacifist (or at least less combat-oriented) cleric? That's the first thing I've heard about the new edition that's interested me! :D

True .... and that's precisely the flaw in the whole RPG industry as a business model, which causes the endless production of new editions and massively-inflating splatbook power curves. They're the only things that people will buy, and yet their very production 1) ticks off the consumer base...

Are grognards killing D&D? No, the strange market is. To actually reply to the topic title -- specifically, are Grognards killing D&D, my opinion is, no. If D&D is dying, and I'm not sure that it is (despite my and my gaming group's defection to FUDGE ;) ), it's because of the very nature of...