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Well, if it's any consolation, Worlds and Monsters makes it pretty explicit that of the chromatics, the only one that got a makeover was the Green dragon. It's partly due to the change in its breath weapon to a poisonous gas (they commented that everything about the dragon should scream "poison...

I think the point he's trying to make is that, regardless of role -- be it mastermind, despot, or rampaging beast -- the last thing that any dragon would be is a simple "big, dumb brute." Smaug was the epitome of the rampaging beast, but he was also intelligent, arrogant and somewhat (in an odd...

Hmmm, Eladrin might work better than Tiefling for sure, though there'd need to be some reason for him to try to shift his focus from the Feywild to the Shadowfell. I like the flock of ravens idea as well; he'll probably pick up some wizard abilities related to cold and freezing so as to better...

Actually, having looked thru Worlds & Monsters last nite, I had an idea for what could very well be my first 4th Ed character. Similiar to the OP's, would be a Tiefling Paladin -- but in service to the Raven Queen. Sworn to send restless spirits and especially servants of Orcus to a final...

We'll leave that determination up to the percentage of the population who like their Dragonborn with Beards.... Daggum furries. ;)

I'm afraid I'd have to add the option "He has no concept of the power of the Tacky Side....." Then again, not all of us are fortunate enough to own a vintage late-60s doubleknit polyester shirt with a print pattern of red & yellow horses gamboling on background of swirling bright green and...

I do have to say, though, that I don't really think that shirt everyone's commented on was that bad. Then again, I do personally own one of the ultimate in tacky shirts, so I might be a bit jaded....

And that, right there, is the best counter to your arguments, Derren. Fait accompli. It's done, it's happening, learn to live with it. Many of us see it as an improvement and have plenty of ways to make dragons powerful, terrifying and meaningful opponents without them having to lean on the...

Cool, yes. Alas, the Uranium Dragons have long since gone extinct -- it happened shortly after their creation, truth be told. Seems they had enough uranium in them that when two got together for the purposes of mating they achieved critical mass and well, blew up.

My group is going to switch as soon as its released. I'll identify players by their quotes (see my sig, hehe). There's myself -- the primary DM and I'm heavily pro-4e; I see lots to like about it. Of note, I'm also the one with the largest 3/3.5 library of the group. The stuff I use on a...

I wanted to reply to this post back when I first read it, but decided to wait for the separate thread that was requested for this particular discussion. The point I wanted to make is that the entire premise of that conversation is such an absurdly contrived situation it makes my head hurt...

Well, first off, you should probably drop all instances of Darkvision you've got up there; for instance, it's been stated that Drow will not have it.

I don't really see the Far Realm as being focused on destruction of everything, per se. The schtick of the place is that the motivations of its residents are simply incomprehensible to mortal minds. Thought, dimension, space, time -- they all function so differently from what people are used...

It's in the Necromancer Games announcement -- they're going in on it together.

And now we know what happened to everyone's favorite bloodsucking rodent. :)

I agree with the shout-out to ol' Meepo; he was sorta the inspiration behind one of the NPCs that some of my players "adopted," and Gubchuk the goblin was also in that design area that lies peripheral to the main plot. Those sort of hooks that DMs can tailor to their own liking without...

Thank god. I was deathly afraid 4th Ed was going to be seriously iron & zinc deficient.... :p

By this I assume you're wondering if a Nat 20 is still an automatic hit, yes? Doesn't say, but I don't really see any reason they'd change that, especially since they've toned down the damage crits do.

More that they're useful very early on in a fighter's career, when he's battling humanoids and other such enemies but which quickly fade into borderline uselessness the larger and more monstrous the enemies become in higher levels. Once fighting things even a tad bit larger than an ogre, the...

There's also the possibility that Bo9S is one of those books that gets bought far more frequently in person than over the 'net, after someone's picked it up and thumbed thru it at ye olde FLGS. It's really a difficult book to judge based solely on an Amazon description/excerpt.