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The main weakness is that your intelligence is lower so you will be a less effective spell caster. Assuming only a 12 strength, your battle axe will be less effective then casting shocking grasp so the only real advantage you have to make up for being a weaker spell caster is the higher armor...

Interesting to note that the golem's hit points seem a littler higher then normal, but that he will probably lose about half of them to opportunity attacks between primal fear and his rampage power.

It's definitely an interesting idea. I think the fairest thing is to compare it to the 20 strength/14 dex slayer. The damage of the 20 strength slayer scales a little better, though the difference is marginal and doesn't come into play until paragon. He has fewer hp but he has an extra feat so...

Agreed, I wouldn't mind seeing more things like that. Although they do say in MM 1 that many metallic dragons are devoted to Bahamut and share his ideals of nobility and virtue. That pretty much accounts to the same thing as saying many are good.

Well I'm not sure genuinely caring about lesser races is mutually exclusive to unaligned. I've known a ton of people in the real world who genuinely love and protect animals who I would still classify as unaligned. But I do agree that I'd like to see more flavor text about creatures in...

I don't completely disagree with you here, but these things can and often are taken a bit too far. I remember the days of planescape novels and games where in their desire to constantly create "interesting" characters it seemed like almost every angel you met was evil and if you wanted to find...

But that is the description of gold dragons. So we've established that your argument that they are not different from other dragons is incorrect. The only thing left over is why you feel that someone honest and forthright and respectful of those in their charge has to be a divine paragon of good?

Gold dragons are honest and forthright, treat creatures as wards and students rather then slaves and pay fealty to Bahamut. I'm not sure what game your playing which that's not really any different then a red dragon.

I'm inclined to think it's just an oversight myself. As it happens though their minor action is powerful enough to be worth using in place of their standard.

I'm still not sure why you can't have that with gold dragons now. They are as written mostly beneveloent and unlikely to attack travelers on the road. It would still be as much of a mystery weither good or unaligned is written in their alignment section.

Minions and swarms seem to have gone through a redesign too. Swarms got nerfed and now just have a small passive damage aura, and minion damage seems to scale much more quickly as it gains levels, and they are more likely to have other abilities besides damage, such as auras, nasty status...

According the the monster manual, the only thing monster alignment means is what alignment is most typically encontered. So yeah monsters are generally free to vary to whatever alignment they want.

Well the difference is just that while before gold dragons were automatically your ally, now there is some chance they won't be. Based on their personalities they are still very likely to clash with evil dragons and are substantialy more likely to help the players then hurt them. Players just...

Well the only thing on that list that would really surprise me are the gibbering beasts (I always thought of eldritch terrors like that as innately evil). Zombies have always been neutral and eating anything that comes within 100 yards could describe a shark or any number of other animals that...

While I know you were joking, it's worth noting that good-aligned PC liches have been around at least since 2nd edition, if not before that. The archlich goes way back. So if anything their inclusion is extremely faithful to previous editions, rather then moving away from them.

I kind of like that there are a number of items that are designed to interface directly with specific class abilities. It's kind of fun if there are magic items that give a warlock curse special properties, even if it does make those items pretty useless to others. I would find it kind of boring...

Given how burning arrows were traditionally only used against buildings and not against people, I'd say they should be given stats that make them less useful then normal arrows against the majority of enemies. And even against enemies with a fire vulnerability there should be some give and take...

Hmm yeah that always bothered me too about the whole mindless undead thing too. Or for that matter how are they skillfully wielding a weapon and attempting ot move out of the way of other people's attacks? Or understanding and interpreting spoken commands? And yeah even "mindless" 3e skeletons...

From what I can tell there is no such things as completely mindless undead in 4th edition. Skeletons for example have an int of 3 which makes them smarter then wolves. So they obviously have some kind of mind that can be attacked.

It's actually worth noting that while the 4e dragon may take longer to kill a low level fighter then the 3e one, he actually is way faster then the 1e and 2e dragons. The 3e dragon takes 1 rounds of attacks to kill the enemy which is 6 seconds. The 4e dragon takes 2 rounds which is 12...