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Having DMed for both 3e and 4e (though I came in late for 3e) I'd much prefer using NPCs with 4e-style stats... at least for combat. When it comes to non-combat, I'm a little bit less certain, because I feel that 4e NPCs don't usually have enough skills or non-combat abilities to make them very...

So use 4e-style classes where character progression is much, much simpler and you don't have to worry about several different charts determining your character's capacity. Better yet, why not allow multiclassed characters to level up skills or powers from either of the classes they're training...

As I see it, law, good, chaos, and evil (for D&D alignment purposes) can be summed up as such: Law is about believing that society should be structure and ordered, that everything has its place and should not wander far from it. A Lawful character doesn't follow all laws for their own sake, but...

But D&D's never had a real analogy to an all-pervasive Force like Star Wars has. There's no "disturbances" in magic really. Well, aside from wild magic in certain settings but that's still something completely different. I don't think your idea is necessarily a bad one (in fact, it's my...

These two statements seem to contradict each other. I'm not really in favor to be honest of completely decoupling alignment from ideas of morality and good or evil. As I stated earlier, I'm fine with decoupling the idea of the "greater good" from good vs. evil and putting it in the law vs...

I agree on a lot of these, though some perhaps should remain optional plug-ins. This one stuck out to me, though: I agree on getting rid of half-elves and half-orcs as distinctive races. However, I think hybrids should be accounted for; they're firmly entrenched in a lot of the lore and...

Oh, I don't mind the 4e cosmology all that much (I particularly like the mirrored Astral Sea and Elemental Chaos). I just mind how it was implemented. And the idea of making the planes playable is a good one - I just think that the way 4e did it ended up losing the mysticism and exoticness that...

Again, I'm going to point to Daoism, which isn't so much as pro-evil as it is pro-unattachment. The idea here is not encouraging TN players to randomly backstab their friends when they kill a demon, but rather for them to question the need to kill the demon in the first place instead of simply...

Although Planescape I think is too odd to serve as a core setting I would like elements of it to be adapted into core. For example, I'd really like to see a return to the idea of the planes as weird and dangerous realms beyond mortals' easy understanding. The idea of the planes as just another...

I feel like the trilogy is just there for tradition and extra money to be honest. I mean, is there honestly a reason for three books other than the fact that it's been how it's done since AD&D first debuted? On another note, I think whatever they come up with it should be available both in...

AFAIK, WotC only said that there wouldn't be a 4.5e. Your mileage may vary as to whether they lied about that in regards to Essentials. However, there's also a difference between lying and changing your mind later.

To me an Unaligned character is simply who just hasn't chosen sides yet. A True Neutral character, however is someone who has: they've chosen no side and a middle road. To a certain extent, it's almost like there's three axes: good vs. evil, law vs. chaos, dedication vs. apathy. To a certain...

Planescape's popular in the same way something like Firefly is popular: it's a cult classic. Most (post-2e) players have never heard of it and those who have don't necessarily have a strong opinion of it. If they do have an opinion, it's not necessarily good. However, the people who know of...

No. Just no. For some games where the races and/or species are significantly different it would make sense. But not for D&D. Most of the races are just reflavored humans with particular quirks anyway (which I'm fine with, BTW).

Anecdotal evidence of popularity or a lack thereof counts for a little, but not much. People tend to hang with the crowds that already share their tastes so if you're not a fan of Planescape, you're not going to probably have a lot of friends who are fans. That said, I think your central...

I voted one book, but I really mean one book for both Players and DMs as well as a Monster Manual, similar to how Pathfinder operates. Most RPGs that aren't D&D can fit both the player's rules and instructions for GMs into the same book. There's no reason D&D can't. However, given the vast...

One, very simple reason: It's not generic enough. Sure, it connects to all of the other settings (even post-2e, where Sigil is a part of every cosmology and is the same Sigil in all of them) and that means, in theory, you can easily incorporate all of its lore into everything. But it's also...

The problem with allegiances is that they seem awfully setting-specific to me. Sure, you can change the allegiances from factions to concepts like good, evil, law, and chaos, but then, aren't they pretty much just alignments anyway? I'm not actually opposed to the idea of allegiances, but I...

It's an interesting idea and could certainly help winning over new players but I'm not sure how it would work. Everyone who's not a muggle (and hence, presumably, an NPC) is a mage in the Harry Potter books. That pretty much excludes most of the classes from playing.

I figure this is a joke question, but as some have pointed out it's more than slightly possible they aren't reptiles. After all, 3e claimed dragons weren't.