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There is a world of difference between relaying some information and radically altering the newest design because Enworld says "It's not D&D!". Plus, all companies know it's good to make the community think they have input, even if they actually don't. Most information relayed to us is final...

If there is one thing you can easily houserule in, it's the wish spell. It's defined by having no rules.

Well, I'm sure they managed to give them a decent ability for that. I mean, what's the point of a vampire that cannot even suck your blood? Judging from the devil stat block, they have probably thrown most of them out. And no one says new vampires need to get the full package anyway.

Well, you can play the guy who has made a contract with a devil, so I guess the repentant vampire isn't any worse. Plus, what the OP suggested is closer to a half vampire, who has just some of the typical powers. You wouldn't want to have PCs who turn into ash when exposed to sunlight. Not...

Vampirism is popular enough that I wouldn't mind specific rules to open it up for PCs. Not necessarily a completely new prestige class, especially not in the Monster Manual I, but some alternative racial traits or class powers would be quite nice actually. You still need to make sure that evil...

Even if we are going for pure realism, I'm not sure if I can agree. All performance in physical abilities in real life steadily increases with age (experience), until it declines with age again. If you wouldn't benefit from doing something the two thousandst time, I'm sure athletes wouldn't...

Most of the people in internet communities of anything (except maybe Mensa) are too stupid to design a game, so their opinions generally shouldn't have any weight, especially if they don't have perfect information (and for D&D, Wizards cannot give the community perfect information without giving...

I doesn't have to be Magic Missile, it could just be a random AoE spell that would have been cast anyway. Or some persistant effect. Fact is, the "drop to -1" model is quite vulnerable to such interference.

Well, you said yourself that the 500 year old elves should be the "greatest" citizens then. But in Eberron and Faerun, they aren't. They have less prominent representatives than humans do and about as much as dwarves do, and there is nothing in the material that suggests that the 500 year old...

Then we have a different opinion on what "modern" is. Note the radical change in elf mentality from 2E Faerun to 3E Faerun. It's far harder to come up with an example for elves that don't live long. As I said, everyone blindly copies from Tolkien. That in itself is not my problem (as I have...

Yeah, this is probably what we can expect. You probably don't get stunned with most abilites, so you don't have a scenario in which the cleric is affected and then no else can save him, or where you cast it on a single monster which doesn't have any comrades to save it, and I suppose there will...

It's also a good method for TPKs out of nowhere. "Two natural ones in the three man group? Uh oh ..."

You all raise fine points except that, as I have pointed out, those views are barely, if at all, supported in modern fantasy. You cannot be detached from the life around you if you have to work for survival in a human city, or if you are a warrior of a an aggressive nation. As modern elves are...

So as it turned out, you actually have fine reading competence (I suppose), you just didn't bother to read, with the same result. Very well then, let me sum up: There is one thing in this thread that you just have "to get", to understand. That there could be a text that read "Recharge...

And those are completely unrelated to the functions they fulfill in combat. There is no reason why the striker cannot also be your economist or the controller cannot also be the peacekeaper. That's what I tried to get at with the "noncombat guy". I have played systems before in which you have...

Works great for high magic worlds of course, but I suppose in most campaign worlds life extending magic wouldn't be that common. Oh, and doesn't that mean that any important citizen, certainly anyone in power, would live as long as he wants to? The resulting society should be pretty...

The first thing is completely killing alignment. Also killing random attributes/hitpoints if they made the cut (which they hopefully won't, as I don't know any decent game that employs them). Interesting. I have never seen or heard of roles besides "tank", "healer/buffer", "dps" and "...

The idea behind the role model is that there are certain functions that a party needs no matter how the design is ("need" as in, a party will perform a lot better if the function is present), so you might just as well acknowledge it in class design instead of having useless classes that are only...

Permanent injuries are really popular with players.

Well, there is a problem. Fighter, Cleric, Wizard, Rogue and Warlord along with their roles are confirmed. The Paladin as the second defender is also all but guaranteed. That leaves us with two roles, one striker and one controller, along with three classes that have been talked about...