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To the tune of Monster Mash: I was working in the graveyard late one night When my eyes beheld an eerie sight For my zombie from his grave began to rise And suddenly, to my surprise He did the smash He did the zombie mash The zombie smash It was a graveyard bash He did the smash It caught on...

Hooray, they fixed the "Hero of Faith" cheese. I was sure they were going to fix it eventually anyways by making it a "once per day" thing that lasted all encounter (or 'til the target drops). It's still a really good feat, though; it's great for setting up your really big smackdown. And now...

Hooray, I no longer have to forbid the cloak of distortion!

It's just a +5 to bluff to disguise yourself. Nothing more. It's hardly game-breaking if you remember to make spot checks to pierce the disguise.

Yeah, I know... and then it turns out that all the players are mysterious outsiders (which, I admit, is a fun premise for a PC party... sorta like the X-men, including the power creep). And I am a bit of a blow-hard. I make pronouncements like "I forbid non-standard races at my game!" and as...

I like them as mysterious people from beyond, but I guess they are the new drow. Drow used to be a race that didn't even have a write-up, just a brief mention in the elf entry in the Monster Manual that described them as "rumored" and "legendary". Then they showed up in the D module series...

Minotaurs. I want big hulking brutal monsters, not medium-sized cow warriors.

Thus thwarting the design goal of minions, which is to create simple monsters that represent minor threats that can be easily dispatched without record-keeping.

Oh, I forgot about genasi. Maybe I'll aim for them next. :devil:

It's called the Wind in the Willows campaign setting. Mr. Hedgehog, Mr. Crow, and Mr. Frog go for an adventure....

I'd love kenku in the right setting (not necessarily Asian-inspired), but in standard D&D they still seem like more of a monster race. Now, in something like the Diamond Throne setting of Arcana Unearthed/Evolved, which embraces "beast" races, they'd fit perfectly. As for duergar's quills, I...

My hit list: Bugbears, minotaurs, gnolls, githyanki, githzerai, duergar, and kenku. They are monsters or strange outsiders or both, not PC races.

I loathe readied actions. They should have died a quiet death in the transition to 4e. You don't want to do anything now? Fine, delay your action.

Not to me. Sounds like its just dressing up mundane stuff that the party could do "by hand." If a race had this power, with no useful racial encounter, then it would not be balanced with the other races.

Paladin/cleric radiant damage: Shiny holy wrath. Warlock radiant damage: The Unwholesome Spectrum Which Was Not Meant To Be.

I, too, had an immediate dislike of the eladrin teleport, but now I like it and have no problem. A ritual ability would not be an appropriate racial ability, though. It would be useless until paragon level at least, and would not be useful in combat.

Yah, we should get rid of the 5 most unpopular first, otherwise it will take so long that by the time we're halfway done there will be another 15 races to add...

I am annoyed by redundant races. Shadar-Kai and revenants, for example, both take up the "gloomy death race" slot. Also minotaurs. I want the old big monster minotaurs, not tauren.

Perhaps I am an enigma wrapped in a paradox wrapped in a low-carb multigrain pita? I guess my weasel answer is that the "5-second rule" is kind of my ideal goal... and really most of the my the players do choose their actions rather quickly, it's just the times they spend a long time pondering...

Hopefully they will let implement users catch up to all the lovin' that weapon users get. Bracers of Iron Might, magical ammunition, brutal/high crit/etc. weapon properties all make my wizard jealous.