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The new Rust Monster actually sounds better than the old one. I was never one to be or enjoy playing under an adversarial DM, and the whole "Ha Ha! I screwed you dumb punks over yet again!" playstyle grates on me. As for some sort of MM1 teaser, I would like to see lycanthropes.

The Dude abides.

I'm pretty sure that humans will get a free weapon proficiency. R&C had a couple paragraphs about all humans knowing how defend themselves and their homes with a weapon. Other than that, I don't know. Probably an extra Second Wind, but that's also supposed to be a dwarven thing...

That is all kinds of hawesome.

Monsters, definitely. The stats for a gnoll zombie and an orc zombie are pretty much the same. It's all in how I describe it to my players.

I agree, that was unhelpful and insulting, not to mention almost certainly false. And even if Irda Ranger has an advanced degree in population biology, who cares? Fantasy. Roleplaying. Game. 4e has deliberately chosen a 'gamist' approach rather than (IMO) mind-numbing 'simulationsim', and I...

A katana is exotic because the developers thought it* was too powerful to be a martial one-handed weapon. That is all. *EDIT: I mean, of course, the stats that they gave the katana.

I loved exotic weapons. Reality be damned, give me exotic weapons that are cool and worth using.

I personally hope they use the Poison Dusk variety as the standard Lizardfolk. They worked really well without having the problem of racial hit dice that MM1 lizardfolk did.

No. I remember flipping through the Monster Manual and thinking, "great, more super-powered Good Outsiders who should be out there doing the PC's jobs better and quicker instead of wafting about somewhere being pretty and un-fightable and moaning about their ennui. Why are these even in here?"...

I didn't even notice, honestly. But 'God' is perfectly fine terminology.

I know, I know...Is phony major!

Nothing official re: 4e, but they're gone from SWSE, so it's a good bet. Personally I'm glad they're gone - your secondary/tertiary attacks rarely hit and can bog down the pace of combat. Maneuvers should easily make up for any extra damage from your +5 iterative, and far more reliably, as well.

For what it's worth, I love the teefling's huge horns and I love the new gnome design. And the badger. Who's my minion? Who's my ickle widdle minion?

I see so many people complaining about a purported "failure of imagination". What I'm really hearing from these people seems instead to be complaining about a "failure of Wizards to read my mind and enshrine the peculiarities of my taste in the PHB." I don't know if they mean it like this, but...

I've done the homebrew thing, and I enjoyed it. But for 4e, I'm starting out in the generic PHB setting, detailing the starting locale and winging it from there. It's going to be a lot of fun.

I agree with this. Repeat after me, people: Fantasy. Game. I care not one whit for 'practical'-looking weapons; give me designs that stoke the fires of my imagination. And I love the new tiefling. It is all sorts of 125% amazing. I want to see more pics of the dragonborn, but they look...

Don't forget morale officer. HP are nearly half morale as it is.

Why would it be required? Variable length of scenes doesn't offend my sensibilities.

I prefer to call them arbitrary and impossible to keep track of.