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I know one exception....fans of the Wilderlands, a setting that is explicitly "without canon"

Thing is, I've already got enough evil subterranean races. Grimlocks haven't made the cut so far IMC. But yeah, they'd be the descendents of "furry pre-human" Tsathoggua worshippers that went underground. EDIT: Another reason I love using trgolodytes....they can make PCs vomit with their odor!!

Ditto, for me the distinction was/is Lizardmen: Humanoid body, although scaled/tailed/clawed, with lizardy head Troglodyte: Blasphemous lizard that walks upright and uses tools The other rmain distinction: Lizardmen are like pulp savages (but more "cold-blooded"), they may try to cook and...

3-D printers are becoming cheaper every year, I think this will be feasible soon. Heck, if you could rip the wireframe of your character, there's probably already companies that would render a miniature for you.

I've used both trogs and lizardmen plenty. Lizardmen are the savage dinosaur-people that live in the jungles and marshes, trogs are the lovecraftian Tsathoggua-worshipping subterranean degenerate elder evil race.

The power gamer hires mercenaries...ogre mercenaries.....mounted on triceratops in plate barding

As a DM, I've made it a prerequisite for the feat that the player must fill out attack entries on the character sheet for whatever level of power attack they will be using.

I was wondering when this was going to come out. “When D&D started, Gary Gygax was influenced by simple pulp adventure fiction. For him it was about dungeon adventuring. D&D, especially the second edition with Dragonlance and all that stuff, got really into creating a saga, and to me that lost...

Ditto here, replaced Orcus in my Wilderlands campiagn

I am thrilled that they didn't ditch or ruin the owlbear!

replace historical with "fantasy pop culture"

Another vote for Lizardmen. Even the 4E picture they had of one looked apropriate for Thog Smash! Although I prefer the sleek lizardmen of the 1st ed. MM.

Ahh, but I can take the mechanics for the Tiefling race, strip off the kewl devil-man appearance, and give it whatever appearance I like. Then I replace all references to "Tieflings" in whatever 4E adventure I'm using to whatever I'm using. In other words, Serpent...

That bit in the dungeoncraft article about the "the ancient empire of the tieflings" just changed my mind entirely about the inclusion of Tieflings in the PHB. I try to base my D&D campaign on classic swords & sorcery fiction tropes. RE Howard, CA Smith, Lin Carter, etc. One of the cliches is...

DM in the WL, also 2 of my players have decided to DM WL campaigns.

Arcanis? It incorporated Freeport & Nyambe I believe.

In my DMing I've tried to keep it "classic swords & sorcery" as well as gygaxian. I banned spiked chains, 86'd gnomes and halflings as PC races, I give XP to players for readings books from the 1st ed. DMG recommended reading list. As a result of that list, I've gotten into the "Dying Earth"...

I imagined that due to the intense rivalry between Orcus and Demogorgon, Demogorgon created the Death Knights as an insult to Orcus.

In 1st (and I believe 2nd) edition, Hobgoblins used carnivorous apes as their warbeasts. And I like to think of them as mongol/samurai oriental hodgepodge types myself.