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You might have a point about orcs and gnolls wanting to be unique and stand out for their orc-ness and gnoll-ness. However, I think what led to this development was game groups facing orcs and gnolls by the buttload. The designers saw a problem in all those orc encounters going exactly the same...

lol, once upon a time, lurker was a word in the English language.

I can agree with that. D&D monster books are not porno mags. That said, how about some nudity, when it's appropriate. And how about not shying away from showing any amount of nipple (male or female), or crotchal region (again, male or female, doesn't matter to me). If there are 100 monsters in...

Good point. WotC is, of course, lying when they say they want feedback from actual fans.

I personally think it's a travesty and a miscarriage of justice that we are allowed to see male nipples but not female nipples. The philosophy seems to be that it's cool as long as the boobs are ugly. That's sexist in itself, going as far as to assume that no females could possibly be reading...

First, I don't think it was intended for Core Rulebooks to be allowed. They tried disallowing "rules for character advancement" among some other key tropes required for a set of core rules, if I recall correctly. Second though, I will always stand by full openness as the right way to go. Even...

Here is a pretty good article on the subject: Fantasy Armor and Lady Bits - Mad Art Lab I think WotC should hire this guy as an art director.

I have subscribed to DDI, and then my subscription ran out without me ever having got to really play with it. On the other hand, I've bought books and PDFs that I still have access to, and I can play with them any time I want. Plus, DDI forces updates. Right now anyways, I simply cannot get...

Bleh. I think it's been said before, but I'll say it again. Mutants and Masterminds is still good for D&D. This is the point Ryan Dancey keeps making. Games like Mutants and Masterminds don't actually compete directly with D&D. For D&D players, M&M is a pleasant diversion and an example of the...

I made an analogy once: The Core Rules are the DVD player. The adventures are the films. Also novels and campaign setting sourcebooks. I wish I had been into gaming during the glory days when TSR was putting out hundreds of setting books per year. I still think that model is correct, but...

Layander you failed your Read check. A couple of things: Dancey is not granting that WotC's next moves will be successful. He points out that 4E was not considered a success. It's not a foregone conclusion that 5E will be successful. Further, the various editions of D&D don't have to go...

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Impenetrable, because the rules are going to be the most obscure yet.

Wouldn't that kind of support my desire for twenty(-ish) classes in Core? I think the problem with 4E was the classes that didn't have roots in fantasy archetypes. Designers have a built-in appreciation for the archetype of the Wizard, therefore they write more for it. Players have a built-in...

My problem is that if you take only the spirit of the statement, it's vacuous. It's no different from anything they've ever tried to do with any edition. Basically what they're really saying (ie. not literally) is "we're trying to make a game that, while different from all previous editions...

I think it's pretty well established in any edition that the publisher can sell a pretty big number of Class books. Sword and Fist, Complete Warrior, Complete Champion, Martial Power... After the Core Rules, these are usually the next best sellers. Given that each class is likely to have that...

I would like to see 5E retain the eladrin. I always justified it not as an elf split, but as a clarification on the celestial race of eladrin, by creating a base that the ghaeles and firres and whatnot could then be built up from. In other words, I saw the eladrin as a counterpart to the...

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