De gustibus non est disputandum.
IMO, if you want to see dragon people done right, then you should check out the noble draconians in the Bestiary of Krynn.
As much as I am opposed to their appropriating the name for something else, given the number of lame-arse names the designers have come up with perhaps it's for the best.
Right. He is just a victim of institutionalized, deep-seated racism against gnomes! It's like the other day, when someone assumed my gnome adventuring companion guarded a garden when he is, in fact, a high-level sorcerer!
Mystara/BECMI has both elves and sidhe (my preferred type of "elf"), so I do not fault 4E for its dichotomy (except in using the goofy name "eladrin.")
I had not thought of that. You are, of course, correct. Incidentally, the most dangerous thing about the plane of fire is not the immense heat but having to walk across an endless expanse of d4 caltrops.