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Despite the moral issues brought up by it, I think that FR's solution to the afterlife is actually a pretty good one. It too has always bothered me that the worshipers of good gods call to nice, fluffy heavenly places and those who worship evil gods go to hellholes. The idea that the evil gods...

This. Nifft wins the thread. Alignment is lined up, pretty neatly, as based upon behavior rather than belief. Otherwise, you fall into the trap of everyone with the same alignment has the same personality. Compare, for instance, Roy and Durkon from Oots (or Miko, pre-fall for that matter)...

I suppose. But that's not how I imagine either. I suppose it's in part because I've never thought of ninjas as magical or assassins as particularly gentlemanly. When I think of assassins I think of black-robed killers who kill others for a profit, a cause, or out of loyalty to a lord. You...

Explain to me why ninjas aren't just assassins with eastern-themed fluff. It may just be me, but I find classes that base their entire existence on Western ideas of orientalism dull and boring. Why make a samurai when, as OotS points out, a paladin (or fighter) with the appropriate fluff works...

Well looks like they're following through on their promise to release more FR content. Playing as Revenants... that's a bit... unusual, isn't it? Not that I'm against it but do they really count as a race anymore than say... ghouls? I'm afraid I'm not particularly familiar with them other than...

It was definitely being the outsider, break-the-archetype thing for me. Same goes for tieflings. I like all the wierd little outcast races. Don't ask me why. I'm not quite sure myself. But it seems more imaginative than, say, playing an elf or dwarf or a human - all three of which have been done...

I don't actively discourage or encourage any particular races, though, I do try and make it clear what the rules within my game are regarding racial cultural values and roleplaying guidelines - while stressing they can play against type (hey, want to play an axe-crazy deva? fine with me)...

This was an awesome surprise for me as a DM. I'll definitely be making use of it (whether or not I actually run the adventure). This is pretty much, as far as I can figure, an Author's Saving Throw for WotC after that PDF fiasco.

Because it's wrong and it cheats the creator. That's all I need to know. Granted, the issue might be more iffy if the creator is dead but for consistency's sake I feel it is still morally best to buy, rather than steal someone's work.

Here's my guess, based on what Rich Baker said on the FR forums regarding primordials and worship. The elemental source will have some of the flavoring of the arcane source (given, for one thing, the fact that many arcane powers use elemental energy) and that of the divine source. It is my...

No. I can't really spite people for disliking things in the new edition of FR (even though I like alot, though not all, of it) but this is a misinterpretation or straight out lie. Let's look at the development team, shall we, who divided the work roughly equally between them? Bruce R. Cordell...

Not really. I mean, yeah, players and DMs usually interpret D&D alignment how they want to, but the definition of the alignments is written down, plan and simple, in several sources. And while 4e simplified alignment, it doesn't seem to have changed the overall difference between good and evil...

For those of you are saying, "would it be wrong to kill a few good people to destroy several thousand evil ones" - you're missing the point. This is not about your own personal morality. The question was, in D&D terms, was V's act evil. You might believe intention/ends justify the means but D&D...

I believe you are looking for the Shaman class. Druids aren't healers anymore. That was explicitly stated in their role which is, as the last poster pointed out, controller. You should no more expect a large variety of healing spells from a druid than you should from a wizard. And speaking of...

Which Link? Seriously. If we're talking about OoT-TWW I'd be tempted to say a bard, potentially with swordmage multiclassing (in 4e), given the extremely important role music plays in the games. However, in TP, the magic is almost wholly removed from his character, with the exception of his...

Evil, RAW. Arguing by any other moral philosophy is pointless, since that's not the question that was asked, which was, "in D&D terms was V's act evil?" The answer is yes, unambiguously. Vengeance, as defined by the official rules, is not necessarily evil, but is definitely on the slippery...

Ah, so your problem is not the exoticness but the diversity. Gotcha. That, to me, is actually a stronger argument and one I can sympathize with. But it's not a problem unique to 4e. It's a problem that's been around since at least 2e, what with Dark Sun, Dragonlance, and Planescape introducing a...

The gorilla in the bar analogy doesn't work for two reasons. First, being exotic doesn't mean the race doesn't exist. Secondly, gorillas wouldn't be a PC race. The current scientific consensus seems to be that they aren't conscious in the same way as humans. Therefore, they couldn't be a PC...

It's difficult to sort some of these characters, particularly Odysseus and Merlin since the two have seen so many interpretations. However, I'll try my best here with 4e rules (since I feel 4e is better suited to emulating myth than 3e). Aragorn Fighter/Warlord multiclass. Which is dominant...

As for how weird and rare oddball races such as the PHB2 races (and tieflings) should be, I have something to say on that. I agree that many races should feel exotic and strange given their origins, though it really depends partially on your setting. After all, dragonborn are far more common in...