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It's the same actor who has played Davros in his most recent appearances. Also, the Dalek chair is being retired, due to the association of "disability = evil".

No. I don't even bother to look for it these days.

Agreed. I really wanted to like it, but... didn't.

Yeah, there's a weird step backwards there.

"Not all orcs" was built into the language of the 3.0e Monster Manual. Edit: Indeed, even the 2nd Ed Monstrous Manual noted the possibility of exceptions to alignment, albeit rarely.

"No one" is an exaggeration, of course. But high-level play is relatively rare. Though, to be honest, I think that's inevitable: I'm reasonably sure that the majority of campaigns still start at 1st level. I'm as certain as I can be without being WotC that the vast majority start at a low...

Reroll your entire pool at the start of every new adventure. What I actually do: you get max at 1st level, then have to take the average (round up) per level thereafter. (But also, add me to those who say there's no 'should' to this one - as long as DM and players are all happy, do what you want.)

Ask the DM - it's their campaign, so they set the parameters. That said, if the answer is "roll these dice" with no option to point buy or use a standard array, I'm going to gracefully bow out (likewise rolling hit points on levelling). I've had too many bad characters that way. Sometimes I...

We had the "New Coke" analogy back in 4e days, including the bit where they moved back to a much more classic formulation and enjoyed a huge bump in sales. They even had a major competitor starting with 'P'. I don't see the current situation as comparable, partly because they aren't changing...

Probably very high - they're well aware of the issues people have with the 2014 indices, so I'm sure they'll make sure to do these right. I may, of course, be forced to eat those words. :)

I try really hard not to overrule RAW once play has started. I do maintain a list of campaign rules that I count as RAW.

Well, yes and no. Because JA did mention various forms of harassment coming out of this, including death threats, and he also mentions that there's a potential legal issue of using someone else's name for the concept (no matter how well meaning). So it does look like JJ's name did have to come...

The first - a distinct monster type: dragon, monstrosity, outsider, god... Indeed. But even in those editions where they are statted in such a way that they can be killed, they're invariably reserved for being right at the very top of the very top of the challenge range. I was suggesting a...

I'm happy with any of these - just state the assumptions being used, and we're good to go. My current favourite published setting is Eberron, so I voted for "The existence of gods is not canonically established." One option I like the idea of, and am not aware of ever actually seeing used, is...

You say that, but once you discount the stuff that's already been done, the stuff that won't be redone because it's problematic in various ways, and the stuff that was always just dross, I'm not convinced there actually is all that much left.

Moving high-level material to a supplement would be the first step towards dropping it entirely. I'm not a fan of the idea.

Of all the aspects of the new books, the art is the one I'm least concerned about. Whether it's all new, mostly new, mostly recycled, or anywhere in between, I'm sure it will be great. WotC have a really great record on that front.

The problem is that those were wasted feats 99%+ of the time, and then absolutely essential the remainder of the time. Worse, you just knew that the type of DM who would routinely put you in a position where you needed those feats would also be the type of DM who would routinely target whichever...

Yeah, one of the things I felt WotC really nailed with a lot of their adventures was that balance - CoS, SKT, ToA, RotIM, and even LMoP (on a small scale) all provide a nice mix of some sandbox-ish stuff that then comes together into a final showdown. I have various issues with a lot of their...

Canon matters if you want to change something and have a player at your table who knows the setting - then you're in a constant fight against the way it's "supposed" to be.