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Ugh! Every time I think I'm starting to like some things about 4th Edition (such as the sane stat-blocks, the way Demons and Devils are treated), WOTC comes out with boneheaded crap like the new Gnome. What, did they just tell the artist to paint a thin Halfling? Oh, I forgot, Halflings are now...

Sure. But I try not to take myself or the game too seriously. The general tone of my games is heavily informed by movies like Jabberwocky and Army of Darkness. I like to use doses of satire and parody to lighten up the otherwise grim and grimy world. Also, my human cultures are drawn from...

I didn't originally say anything about the Dwarves in my campaign, because I didn't want to be accused of taking the thread in a political direction. My Dwarves are right-wing, sexist, racist, environmentally-destructive capitalists, who believe everything has to be privately owned. Even...

In my current campaign, Halfling culture (at least in the northern lands) is a parody of American Redneck culture. I figured since Tolkien intended Hobbits as an ode to stereotypical English country dwellers, I'd make my Halflings into a bad stereotype of American country dwellers... So Halfling...

Half-orcs drumming and rapping about the size of their genitals, how many sows they've had sex with, and how many gold pieces they've acquired. Halflings with banjos and steel guitars, singing about their faithless ladies, broken-down carts, and dead hound dogs. Dwarven a capella singers...

Why, the Divine Right of Kings as instituted by the Gods! Perhaps the old Holy Monarchy fell beacuse of the actions of some Dark Lord, sending the nobility into into exile with a General McArthur-like promise to return. The Dark Lord was subsequently overthrown by a peasant army that instituted...

Opportunists, Troublemakers, & Ruffians. Or maybe its just my campaign...

A great idea to subvert a standard fantasy cliche would be to set the PCs up to stop the return of the "rightful" king to a newly democratic state that is enjoying peace, prosperity, and freedom without him. And the king's not evil; he's actually a Paladin who wants to restore the old feudal...

The main locale for my current group of PCs has an English Industrial Revolution-like Capitalist culture, and a governmental system inspired by the Cromwell-era Commonwealth. There once was a feudal nobility, but it is now illegal, and claiming to be king is a capital offense. The right to vote...

The thing with the Drow is that they were sexy. I always saw them as essentially a big FemDom BDSM fantasy. I went with it, and just described them as dressed up in bondage gear, and had the females behaving like real-world professional Dominas.

No, I was in NJ. Obviously, you know what your own experiences were, and it would be stupid for me to try and argue them. I can only say that around here, those bands were definitely identified as metal bands, and were only listened to by metalheads before '92. Your experience demonstrates...

Ok, let's get something straight. There was no such music as "Grunge" before the media needed a label to put on the Seattle metal scene. Before "Smells Like Teen Spirit" broke big on MTV, who know who was listening to Pearl Jam (and before that Mother Love Bone), Soundgarden, Nirvana, etc...

Yes! Bring back the days when D&D was F'ing METAL already! Cue the Manowar albums!

Juiblex. He's full of Shoggoth-y goodness!

Excellent! That picture kicks a*s!

Um, Roland is specifically named as being one of Charlemagne's Paladins in the medieval legends. He had a holy sword. And an intelligent warhorse. You're right of course about the history of the term Paladin as an administrative title. But the original D&D Paladin was clearly referring to the...

I am. The Paladin should be firmly based on Roland, Lancelot, etc.

The Jockstrap of Ogre Size. Really. The Jock made your....equipment... as large as an Ogre's. It sounded like a blessing at first, but it soon became obvious to the players that this was a cursed item...

A fusion of both Cleric and Wizard. Strong on Divination magic. The Druids in Irish legends are more like Wizards than anything else, but they have the social function of Priests. The 1st edition AD&D Druid wasn't actually that bad, although the weapon and armor restrictions were really...

How about...oh, I don't know...maybe...Celtic Druid? Just a wild thought there.