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Legacy of the Batrachi = Temple of the Frog. ;) I like the sidebars, especially. Exarchs remind me of the proxies of Planescape, but in a more useful form.

I just want to make an official linguistic note: "Mate" is only pluralised when you are actually talking about your friends. "These are me mates", for instance. You cannot pluralise it as a form of address! Quit getting your idea of Australian slang from Outback Steakhouse menus! (They do the...

No grid - if I were to formalise my preferred rules, everyone would have a "reach zone" in a circle around them, if you see what I mean. You can keep all the rules about five-foot increments of movement, but abandon squares, hexes, and grids of any kind.

I think it sounds like a better game than Third Edition. Fresher and more intriguing setting assumptions, cleaner mechanics which give players more interesting things to do at the table, everything.

So, you wrote the first Fourth Edition article about Orcus. When is your and Nightfall's special day? ;)

Which is creepy, and classist, and reminds me of everything disturbing about Tolkien's worldview.

Yeah, you just described the default. Tieflings (in the assumed setting) descend from the humans of fallen Bael Turath, who dealt with devils and were cursed for their crimes.

Ultimately, I'm not sure that playing even "benevolent" representatives of colonialism sounds like good times. Even the fact that the exiles were literally incapable of going back (even if they wanted to) felt like something to excuse their occupation of dragonborn territory . . . "we have...

It's not a miniature, though. It's more of a McFarlane action figure-sized statue.

I was planning a campaign where the PCs came from a colony of human exiles on the shores of an unexplored continent, who would eventually encounter other intelligent species (dragonborn and tieflings) for the first time in history . . . but I wasn't satisfied with how it was developing.

So what's "resist cold 25"? Chopped liver?

In my opinion, Maztica was nearly 100% pure garbage. My setting wasn't going to have "Native American" dragonborn and "Aztec" tieflings, but the broad strokes were kind of similar. I'm not sure that "Central America in D&D drag" is a viable, publishable concept, even if people like the idea of...

His Eldritch Might bard is the only bard class worth a damn.

The setting I was originally planning on designing for Fourth Edition had only three races: humans, dragonborn, and tieflings. The humans would be a recently-exiled group of discontents from a rising empire called the Patria, on another continent across a wide ocean. They would never have...

There is no reason to feel guilty about shopping overseas for RPG books. D&D is an American product, of course it's cheaper to buy them over there. If you're talking about ordering them online from MilSims or Games Paradise, you're obviously not using those stores as community centres, so why...

And cocaine is a hell of a drug, clearly.

What's wrong with the actual explanation? "It takes a few minutes of study/rest/prayer to use this ability again."

I'm a huge Planescape fan, and it doesn't bother me. Nothing prevents me from using the old setting information with the new rules.

So you recognise that players are growing tired of conventional fantasy races, but because you aren't tired of them, Wizards of the Coast shouldn't make these changes? Please. Well, it would have happened long before you sat down to play, but if I run any other setting than Eberron that is...

Many dragonmark effects are designed to be useful in a commercial context, not on an adventure. I hope this doesn't change - even the ones which can be used in an adventure, like the Lyrandar option to use gust of wind, are also commercially useful.