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None of the games I have ever played in which included female gamers have ever had anything like you describe happen. While my male friends are more likely to be gamers than my female friends, I only play with my friends, so there's no reason why the guys would act differently at the gaming...

I just don't think the articles are really comparable. The warforged article wasn't "Ecology of the Warforged", it was "Playing Warforged" - quite clearly a different kind of article, aimed at fleshing out the simple rules for PC "monsters" from the Monster Manual. I imagine there was more...

I absolutely agree. Take what's written about, say, kruthiks, an example I like to use. Quite honestly? There is more information useful for and useable in your game about kruthiks' lives, behaviour, et cetera than the average person knows about real-world animals like wolves, tigers, or...

I'm assuming this was Fourth Edition? I'm not sure the game runs real well when you have players who, for instance, insist on playing wizards who prefer to use their staff to attack rather than, say, magic missile. It's about as effective and interesting as it was in every other edition - that...

That's not actually relevant. First, the plural of "anecdote" isn't "data". Second, the fact that you noticed you felt less imaginative after you played World of Warcraft doesn't mean the game makes you less imaginative. I feel a lot less imaginative whenever we become really busy at work! If...

It actually doesn't have anything to do with it. I would say the same thing about Everquest or City of Heroes or Magic: The Gathering or D&D Miniatures or Warmachine or Gears of War or Bioshock or Unreal Tournament, or any other game I don't play. I've lost a lot of interest in World of...

To even suggest that people who play World of Warcraft are somehow depleted of some quantitative unit of imaginative faculty, as Mercurius does here: . . . is completely and utterly stupid. Mind-meltingly so. Is Mercurius a neuroscientist? Has he identified the regions of the brain that make...

Well, you're completely wrong, and this forked thread is utterly pointless. Good jorb!

I didn't say anything about a real-world culture. Ember is an African-looking woman wearing Chinese-inspired clothing. There's no real-world culture there, any more than there would be if you saw a Vietnamese-looking man wearing European-style boiled leather armour.

He doesn't look Asian in the Player's Handbook, for whatever reason. Maybe that's why they had his face redrawn for the novel cover! But the fact remains. That's great, but, you know, most Hispanic people I've ever met or seen on TV were a lot browner-skinned than the...

The face of Hennet on the novel cover has been redrawn. In the Player's Handbook he's looking at the viewer, on the novel he's looking at the magic in his hand, and his face has been redrawn to darken his skin and make him look more Asian. In the original, he doesn't look particularly anything...

Ironically, doesn't a wizard get stabbed between the shoulderblades with a broadsword in the very same book, and continue on with no noticeable cramping of her style whatsoever?

My wife played five characters when I ran it - we were on holidays when I got the books, and we were eager to try out the new game! It worked pretty well. I kind of misunderstood the rolling boulder trap, but what I did in my confusion worked out okay - I just reversed the direction it...

Regdar was designed as mixed-race by Todd Lockwood but more often than not painted as white by other artists. Alhandra is white in the Player's Handbook - she might look Spanish or Italian with her dark eyes and hair, but she's still entirely European. Hennet is white in the Player's Handbook -...

Eh, kinda, or he could just be grimacing in the midst of combat. It's pretty ambiguous, and that's the point: they all look white, there's no explicit diversity. It's the same way with the races themselves: the dwarves have rare non-human skin tones (grey or sandstone red); eladrin have human...

About 12 hours, I think. Two hours' worth of play in my last Pathfinder session, after we finished converting the PCs, plus two five-hour sessions of Keep on the Shadowfell. My next Fourth Edition game is Thursday night, the first session of a new game.

I'll grant you the first, but Jesus, Erik! When did Wizards of the Coast ever license or merchandise the iconics? A short series of unsuccessful D&D novels and a couple of named droplets in the collectible miniatures ocean? Maybe a calendar or two? Paizo with its Pathfinder iconics has already...

I only have a short wishlist: As little Tolkien as possible. Elves, dwarves, halflings, et cetera are acceptable only if they have their own separate identity. You might ask "What, then, is the point of having them?" and I would agree with you: if you don't have something awesome to do with...

My wife ran five characters through this dungeon, and survived. Maybe it takes more teamwork than people expect.

I'll probably pick up a few boosters of each miniatures set just out of interest - I'm not collecting them for any real reason. I'll buy all of the adventures, the hardback books - except, perhaps, the Forgotten Realms Campaign Guide and the Draconomicon, unless either is really good. I don't...