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I'm failing to see any kind of justification for why the Neverwinter Campaign Setting is the right place to give support for these things.

Because we never had any racial variations before Essentials. Must be all Essentials fault. Man, you sound more and more like a jilted lover with every post. It's getting kinda creepy.

No, because it's still a weapon. It doesn't stop being a weapon just because you want to cheese the rules.

Rich Baker (1991). Chris Perkins (1997). Greg Bilsland (since before 4e launch, since he worked on the FRPG). James Wyatt (2000). It's a class specifically targeted for a campaign setting. They're not going to use that space for assassin fixes or monster updates, so it isn't like they're...

Duly noted. I'm interested to see how things shake out under Mike Mearls, since he has helped me in the past to feed my old-school-feel (like AD&D adventure conversions) with new-school mechanics. I've always described the guy as "Gygaxian, but in the best way possible," and I want to see how...

Which is the same amount of command of the brand they have had since selling to Hasbro in 1999, as aside from appointing a CEO almost a decade ago (which affects the whole company, not just D&D), we've seen absolutely ZERO evidence that Hasbro has interfered at all with D&D.

Well, there is a character later in the series that was expelled from the Citadel for his nefarious experiments with dead bodies. While the word is never mentioned, he is implied to be something of a necromancer.

The iconic bladesinger was in the Complete Elves' Handbook, and every iteration thereafter (3.0 bladesinger, 3.5 bladesinger, 4.0 Swordmage) has been based on that one, which was a fighter/mage. I can't even find a reference to bladesinger in the Bard's Handbook, and it explicitly lists 4 bard...

Rich Baker has been there longer than Bill Slavicsek was. I'm quite surprised he wasn't the successor.

What I'm getting is that both types of classes are made from the same guts, it's just that "Advanced" allows you to monkey around with the guts, while "Basic" gives you a mostly built package, with little-to-no mechanical choices to make.

That's why you balance it against other themes, so it isn't outright superior. I would make themes for each bloodline and use different types of themes depending on the bloodline. I could see the Scion of Azrai being a DS-style theme with attack powers, for instance.

The deck I think you're talking about is the Fortune Card deck, which grants only bonuses. Players and DMs can both use it, so it can be for/against the players. It just adds another variable element, and another thing to track. Won't go for or against the feel, in my opinion. The Gloomwrought...

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One option is to reduce the material wealth and replace it with equivalent cost items, as rewards from towns (family heirlooms, church relics, etc) and dungeons. Another is to introduce the occasional NPC who would be capable of selling an item, such as the lord of a great house who has fallen...

An improvised melee weapon is 1d4 damage, and with it being a lit torch, most DMs would probably rule that as fire damage. As for it being a foregone conclusion, that depends on the amount of people who have fire to bring to bear, and whether they can do it in a round before any of the trolls...

Note: Pathfinder only sold better than D&D during the slowest release quarter for WotC in 2010, and in the recorded quarterly sales info from ICv2 we've received since, D&D has reasserted itself as top dog.

No, you don't.

The difference between WotC making rules revisions monthly and them advising a DM not to change houserules mid-campaign is that the DM knows when a break comes along and his group would be ready to incorporate the change. WotC can't do that. They can only release the update as soon as feasible...

Apparently, doing the rules-legal 1d4 damage with a rock destroyed the integrity of the DM's world. This guy is a jerk and an idiot. He reminds me of a guy I gamed with briefly in high school who used to try to screw everyone over when they were (and I seriously am quoting him) "having more fun...

He was talking about the H-P-E series, which simply means the 20th was a typo and should have been 30th.