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Man, that's kind of a shame. There's room for a hell of a lot more, I should think. I mean, the setting is the colonial-era New World! And, while I can understand their reluctance to even address potential roles for African characters in such a setting, it still does sound like a pretty...

Not only would all of those options be acceptable to me--not only would they be, in fact, preferrable--but I actually wouldn't really want to play with people who'd object to any of 'em. I mean, I can understand people saying "It's not D&D without elves and clerics", but "I'm not playing...

Not only would all of those options be acceptable to me--not only would they be, in fact, preferrable--but I actually wouldn't really want to play with people who'd object to any of 'em. I mean, I can understand people saying "It's not D&D without elves and clerics", fine, but "I'm not playing...

It's arguably kind of a cop-put answer, but I have to agree with this. There isn't any specific thing that I always want my settings to contain. I love loads of different stuff, I love creating new settings, and I love cooperative creativity. I guess the one additional thing I should point...

This is the oldest and most fundamentally pointless debate in all of geekdom. Seriously, folks, this isn't really an area where strict binary classification works very well. I think we'd do better to adopt a tag-based--rather than hierarchical--structure for the categorization of fiction.

I guess I never bought enough books, because I'm still used to thinking of Regdar as ethnically ambiguous. I don't really remember white Regdar. But, yeah, the tendency of artists to take an ambiguous character and skew them whiter and whiter with each iteration is a familiar one, particuarly...

I pretty much don't ever want to run anything that's not homebrew. Still, campaign setting books can provide lots of great mechanical components and idea fodder, so I'd really, really like to see WotC release something new. The hell with "support"; just release some single-book campaign...

Yeah, it's worth pointing out that anybody worth talking to in any MMO community generally frowns on that term, and will make fun of you for using it. (That's right, the people worth talking to are the ones who alienate other players over minor sub-subcultural distinctions. The rules are...

I agree with all the praise for 4e's streamlined and tactically-deep system. I think Celtavian's central point still stands, though. 3.5 used a huge, sprawling subsystem (or several subsystems, really) for magic, which some people really enjoyed exploring and exploiting, which 4e has a single...

It's undeniably a good thing. But anybody who refers to a roleplaying game character as a "toon" in my presence will be asked not to. Unless they're playing Toon, of course.

No disagreement here.

Wherever it originated, "fantasy heartbreaker" isn't quite Forge jargon. It's used all over RPG.net, for one thing, and I've known it for a long time, despite never hanging out at the Forge. It's a pretty common term, by now. More importantly, it expresses something important that...

I wouldn't really say such a thing is impossible, but seriously, the last thing we need is another Tolkien-esque fantasy RPG. Hell, if Exalted isn't traditional enough, why even mention Talislanta? I'd believe that a bit more if I hadn't run into people who'd gamed for years without playing D&D...

I think it's perfectly reasonable to say that firearms would never develop into anything useful in a setting with really good dwarven-made crossbows and easily-available wands of magic missile. That said, I think guns can work just fine in a fantasy setting, especially if it's got any kind of...

It's elves, dwarves, and halflings that are the Star Trek races: humans with minor prosthetics added. Tieflings and dragonborn are more Farscape.

4e hasn't really won me over--not to the point of replacing 3.5 and all its third-party derivatives, anyway--but I'd sooner play a dragonborn or tiefling than an elf or dwarf or any of that Tolkieny stuff. That said, I liked Planescape's widely-varied tieflings a lot better. And I'd actually...

Yeah, I'd say it's a pretty reasonable fork, intentional or not. Personally, the human race is enough for me. And if I'm going to have other races, I'd prefer them to have a little bit of depth and variety to them, instead of having humans as the only race that lives in a variety of different...

Can't really say the art influences me at all, in that regard. My fantasy worlds are damned well going to be pan-ethnic no matter what the art looks like. The real world is, after all. That said, Todd Lockwood is now even cooler in my book. Thanks for sharing that, Imaro. I especially dig...

I long for a world where the Internet understands that "emo" is descriptor for music, not for personality. More to the point, it's an annoying, nutless style of music I was sick of when it was cropping up on punk rock sampler CDs ten years ago, and I'd sure like to never hear about it again...

Huh. Shrinky Dink paper. Now that is one hell of an interesting idea. Never mind those low-res D&D minature photos; you could print anything on that stuff. Hell, I could make minis out of my Spore creatures! Very, very interesting thing to consider... Replace it with "download GIMP", then.