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You're actually quite wrong. It's much, much easier to say to your players "Valenar elves are wood elves in this game" than it is to say "Valenar elves aren't wood elves in this game". It's easier to add something in than to take it out. (And you don't use an apostrophe to make a plural!)

Eberron generally eschewed subraces entirely. All elves - whether urban-dwelling elves of the Five Nations or the dragonmarked houses, the glory-hungry Tairnadal elves of Valenar, the ancestor-revering Aereni elves of Aerenal, or rural elves living in forests in places like the Eldeen Reaches -...

Well, technically speaking, eladrin are eladrin, elves are elves, and drow are drow. ;)

True! So now I think there will be at least three, because I would be surprised if they left out beasthide when they have the opportunity to include it. (The only major shifter character in any Eberron novel series is a beasthide shifter, as it happens, and he is actually one of the lead...

That avenger class description specifies that razorclaw shifters make good avengers, so at least I will bet that there will be one other type - probably beasthide if it's only one other.

I don't use subraces in the sense of wood elves or high elves, but then again I don't really consider drow, for instance, to be a subrace. They're a separate race descended from elves. In Fourth Edition, the same is true of eladrin; even though you can reasonably say that eladrin have taken over...

My wife bought me a Fossil watch as a birthday present a few years ago, and after taking out the foam insert that held the watch in place I use the square tin it came in as my dice container. It's about 10 cm (4 inches) on a side, and nearly as tall, so it holds all of my good dice. I also have...

Were I playing Vaarsuvius, I wouldn't have any problem whatsoever with what the DM just did. I like when my characters get screwed over, and have to deal with it one way or another; it's one thing to place arbitrary and impossible roadblocks in the way of the main objectives of the party, but...

Sorry for not posting earlier - I didn't listen to it until I got home.

Weird. I've downloaded it.

Yeah, the post I quoted of yours was from early in the thread, so I did have my question answered later on as I read further. However! Now I have a new question. Why is it important to your games that orcs are not people? I mean, I will absolutely accept an answer like "because Tolkien did it...

The "moral relativism" in the new Battlestar Galactica isn't about whether the humans should forgive the Cylons, dude. It's about things like whether or not Cylon prisoners have rights, whether or not to trust Cylons who want to fight for the humans, whether or not humans and Cylons have the...

Escapism is overrated. ;) Treating the PCs and their NPCs allies as a football team that you play for against the Evil Orc football team is all well and good, but you don't have to be "working through your issues" to want your games to take place in a more ambiguous moral or political landscape.

Tolkien has about as much relevance to my games of D&D as a plastic bucket full of eels, at least when it comes to questions like this. He has nothing to teach me about morality and the "proper" position of antagonists in my games. The whole idea that there is some "true D&D" way to do these...

On these forums, Gary Gygax once posted his answer to the whole "shouldn't we save the orcs by converting them?" question. It involved the paladin convincing the orc to convert, "baptising" them, and then executing them immediately so that its soul would remain "saved" and not backslide due to...

I know what you're trying to say, but this phrasing is screwed up. What if their goals are to wipe out the orcs so that humans can take their lands? Are the orcs who fight back, perhaps even raiding human villages to put the PCs on the defensive, evil? Now, I know that you mean something like...

The kids are Fourth Edition elves: They have the same range of complexions as humans, tending more toward tan or brown hues. A typical elf’s hair color is dark brown, autumn orange, mossy green, or deep gold. Note that both are browner-skinned than either Varsuuvius or their other parent, and...

Keith, you might consider posting over on RPG.Net, either in Tabletop Roleplaying Open or the RPG Spotlight: d20 / Dungeons & Dragons forum (which, by coincidence, has a thread titled "Hellcow" on the first page at the moment).

If it makes you feel better, his original name is given in the article as "Achra". "Bane" is the name given to him by his fearful primordial enemies - Achra/Bane became the first god to kill a primordial when he slew Tabrach-Ti, the Queen of Bronze.

As I just posted on RPG.Net, I love that "sidebar" in the middle of the fourth page explaining that most regular people worship multiple gods out of the pantheon, according to their personal interests and customs - which goes a long way to explaining why a good-hearted person might offer prayers...