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Incidentally, the first D&D (2E) group I ever joined, when I was in middle school, included a classmate's little sister. Another friend's mother also played. I imagine they would appreciate fewer pictures of old wizard men drooling over tiny topless ladies with dragon tails in their PHBs.

D&D was widely available by 2nd edition. I got a lot of my boxed sets at Waldenbooks in a beach town.

Depends on the kinds of cultural exposure you have, and the internet is a heck of a bridge to new ideas. In the mid-90s I did a character survey for an online RP space with about five different gender options, and I ended up giving a presentation on pronouns for linguistics class a few years...

It doesn't have to not make sense either. If one absolutely must have titillating art in books used by middle school children it can at least be done in a way that makes any kind of sense. Adventurers are often -not- doing violence, and that's a much better time to show off the man meats for the...

(Geeze that art is confusing... is he flying away from the fire dog with his giant fans?) Because most characters do not have natural armor and wandering around with their muffin tops and top muffins flopping about makes it look like they plan to seduce the zombies they run into.

Chainmail bikinis and similar fetish garb can be depicted in the same scenarios they occur in the real world - in leisure moments far away from dungeons. If the books truly need a dwarf in nothing but a metal thong and his beard, put it in a scene where there's no reason to expect a need for...

The great thing about variety is that everyone has a chance to enjoy something. It also creates the contrast that makes a given feature stand out. Even from an eye candy perspective we all have different tastes and they can go in some very different dielrections.

Intelligence tends to be replaced by metagaming.

This feels like a defensive response for something that doesn't need to be a conflict. There's nothing wrong with or lesser about not being an improvisational DM, it's just a different focus. No need to make a tribalistic thing out of it. I'm very much an extremely improvisational DM, do not...

When it comes to minis I find it's best to focus on broad themes like huge humanoid or large quadruped or medium winged thing. Getting an exact mini for everything is going to be hard unless you stick to only the most cliche critters over and over.

Dark Sun dragons are epic-level world-changing humanoid psion/wizards, so I wouldn't count them. :p

The "edition" issue is less important than the "does this make it hard to use the stuff I already paid for" issue. Doubly so for sanctioned play where WotC can actually cut books off.

It's a hilarious visual to me but at the end of the day if it's what folks want it does me no harm.

A bunch of folks seem to want monks to be tanks instead of caster assassins so it's possible they're moving in that direction.

That's a fairly chonky dragon. They did not skip neck day.

In my 4E game I replaced all monster stun abilities with something else, or at least a target choice between stun and a different effect.

Sai do not typically have blades or sharp points. They are parrying batons. You can make variations the same way you can sharpen the end of a broom stick. And I mean the historical sai in museums, not the modern dojo stuff or TMNT.

I struggle to see why any of those would be called a "dagger", unless we're going with the most basic "a thing you can stab with" definition which would include a tonfa as long as it's not too thick. In any case, weapon name discussions are philosophical ones so you're not wrong but I feel it's...

Versatile P is at least handy for aquatic combat and Versatile S is potentially useful for tasks like sawing through ropes. Damage type impacts the kinds of runes you can get, too.

Eh? Source? Images of antique sai I'm seeing still have flat tips and no blades. Sure you could still stab with them because they're narrow enough, but you can stab someone with rebar too. Like you could certainly use them like a stiletto.