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"Racial variant" is probably a better term.

I want them to learn from the past, not repeat it. There are a lot of terrible things in those old books that should be left back in the 20th century.

God, I hope not.

Innnnnteresting. The "themes" implementation he describes is pretty much the "vocations" rule from D&D Gamma World. I heartily approve of them stealing stuff from Gamma World.

But why is 10 minutes the unit of measurement for "exploration mode" (other than that's the way it was 30 years ago)?

How is a turn like a square? Is the game set up to only allow increments of 10 minutes? In D&D 4e (and 3e), you can't move 17 1/2 feet or something like that.

So if the character has previously sipped such poison, and didn't die, and has an in-character reason to know that he probably won't die from doing it again, that's still "metagaming"? By in-world logic, player characters of sufficiently high level should know that they're fairly immune to...

Surely the poison is just the same, though, whether you willingly ingest it or not. Are you saying you believe that the lethality of poisons should be based on the intent of the victim?

I'm in favor of anything where Lolth is the big bad.

Oh.

Except her name in Forgotten Realms is still "Lolth."

No, it's Lolth in Forgotten Realms as well. "Lloth" is a misspelling that they've retroactively canonized as "the Drow spelling of her name" but her name was always meant to be "Lolth."

I don't understand why you need hexes at all on large maps. I remember the Al-Qadim maps from 2e; they had no hexes on the map, but had a clear overlay with hexes on it. That seemed reasonable.

On drinking poison being auto-death. Okay, so if I say "I am going to drink this bottle of poison" and do so, then I die, right? But if I say "I am going to drink this potion of healing" but it actually also contains a poison, I get a saving throw to avoid dying? If I say "I eat this apple"...

I hate it when people misspell her name. She isn't "yoth", she's "Lolth."

Why are implements terrible?

I know! Let's call them exploits! ... ... ... Oh, you said that already.

Light Blade Expertise. Are you human? Backstabber.

Diversity is somewhat useful, but properly taking advantage of multiclassing or hybrids requires a lot of system mastery; otherwise you just end up with a few options that don't work well together. (The advantage of staying within a class is that generally speaking, the class features, powers...

Why do you want to multiclass into something?