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I haven't received mine yet but there was a news post earlier which said it appeared to have been a printing error that occurred in several batches. So it's a known issue.

Like a lot of other people in the thread I'd much rather we get supplements that expand several classes at once, rather than just one (like a lot of 2e/3e splatbooks) or a few (like 4e's). Whether these be setting-specific (such as an FR or DL sourcebook) or just built around a common theme...

It probably should be noted - since others have briefly touched on the idea - that the male members of "reptilian" races like dragonborn, lizardfolk, etc. shouldn't have mammalian genitalia either; external phalli are - more or less - like breasts a distinctly unique feature to mammals. Birds...

Half-fiends and half-celestials are also rare. And I don't think you can really say tieflings are more common than draconic sorcerers, who are all descended from half-dragons. As for tieflings or dragonborn being unpopular, I don't think there's a lot of evidence to suggest they are. Indeed...

As the name implies, genasi are most commonly sired by genies IIRC. They're not the offspring of pure elementals generally speaking (if ever; my genasi lore's a bit rusty). Tieflings are also generally the offspring of half-fiends rather than directly demons or devils. The Races of Faerun...

To be fair, I think the lore's wildly inconsistent there. In the Draconomicon (for 3rd edition) the lore said dragons weren't reptiles. Even though dragons and related creatures like kobolds were classified as reptilian by a lot of other books. So, you know... you mileage may vary. Also, as I...

I'm actually kind of okay with the way 4e and 5e (so far) depicts tieflings, mostly because I see them as a specific subrace of tieflings: namely, those descended from devils. One of these days if I have the time I may put together a list of tiefling subraces, which swap out certain features of...

My players find it confusing (I know I've asked them). Editors I've worked with on the FR Wiki find it confusing (I know, I had to fight to work a lot of said confusing lore into the wiki). Random people I've encountered online have found it confusing. Need I continue? Most people in this...

I kind of like prestige classes but will admit that archetypes/subclasses and 5e's "bigger" feats fulfill a lot of the same purposes. Still, neither really fulfills the role prestige classes (and paragon paths) had in representing special organizations or fields of training a character had to...

The reason tieflings were included and aasimar weren't is very simple: aasimar weren't in the 4e Player's Handbook. With the exception of warlords and 4e eladrin (who were high elves with extra stuff anyway), the designers of 5e kept very close to their stated mandate of including everything...

Arguably gods could break the cap, but then I'm not really a fan of statting gods (at least not in most circumstances).

The confusion props up anytime you want to use pre-4e archons in a 4e game or anytime you'd like to use 4e archons in Pathfinder or a 5e game (assuming 5e reverts to the pre-4e definition). The confusion, essentially, happens whenever you try to mix pre-4e and 4e material which (if you're using...

EDIT: Oops, double post.

I think that ascribes far too little intelligence to players. I'm sure players can see a female kobold or lizardfolk and understand it's female even if it doesn't have breasts.

While technically accurate, that kind of misses the point of the classification, which is to provide a meaningful way of differentiating different kinds of lifeforms and grouping them together on the basis of biological similarities. A squirrel really is closer to a human than it is to a lizard...

It does bother me a little. I think it overly sexualizes breasts, promotes a cisnormative view of women, and is unnecessarily anthropocentric. I do think the idea that every female PC needs large breasts and armor that displays them prominently is highly suspect and one I'd rather not feature in...

Except using the same name does confuse things (I'm not sure why you'd claim otherwise). It means that if you use pre-4e archons you've got to rename them... or go the extra mile to explain, yes, these are archons but they're not the same archons. In fact, they're nothing like those other...

From what I can tell, WotC's publishing model for 3e and 4e was profitable in the short-term but largely unsustainable. 3e was overwhelmed by a bunch of splatbooks no one ever bought and after the Player's Handbook 3 4e's release schedule slowed to a crawl. By starting slow and announcing...

IIRC, the designers have said the oath-breaker paladin is intended to fulfill the same function as a blackguard. However, the fit isn't 100% perfect (at least based on the name; the DMG isn't out yet so I can't comment on the specifics). A blackguard isn't really just a "fallen" paladin. They're...

Mmm... maybe that's true insofar as the Nentir Vale setting or generic play is concerned, but there was definitely a push early on to make it a core cosmology as universally true as the Great Wheel during 2e. The Forgotten Realms' World Tree cosmology was completely tossed to the side and...