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This is a tough one to answer accurately. I'm somewhere between options 1 and 2, depending largely on how much detail the players bother to announce (and how well I can retain that information), but also I play with a couple artists, who will occasionally draw their own characters, and...

I could definitely do without the yugoloths/daemons, but it ain't quite accurate to say that they were created for the sake of Planescape. After all, the daemons appeared as early as the AD&D 1e Fiend Folio. They might've been created for the sake of some kind of planar alignment symmetry, but...

Presumably, it'd also be a lot less painful than a human infant. Also, I think it's "coatl". As in Quetzalcoatl.

Wait, so is your assertion that it's okay to steal land from anybody whose ancestors stole that land previously?

God, yes, turn-based. Real-time combat with a full party is just excruciating. The two things that kept my from finishing NWN2 were the dumb-looking magical items my Wizard ended up wearing, and the disastrously stupid party AI. The freaking Druid kept wildshaping into forms too weak to carry...

Yep, that's where I went with it. (...But then my frontier was a continent of uninhabited ruins, so I guess I've still got some post-apocalypse in there.)

Yeah, in fact, I believe we've heard that feats are actually going to have fewer prerequisites, this time around.

Interesting results, here. I'm honestly surprised to see so much support for scrapping any traditional, grognard-approved PC races. Myself, I'm all for replacing half-elves and half-orcs with first-level-only feats called Elven Blood and Orcish Blood. Half-races don't really need full...

Oh, hell yes. Yeah, just as you can have both Clerics and Warlocks linked to evil entities, it stands to reason you can have both Warlocks as well as Clerics linked to good entities. I think the difference between these types of arrangements might be that gods (good or evil) have Clerics, while...

I'm thinking we might see something kind of between scaling spells (like fireball), spell series (like cure X wounds), and metamagic (or, arguably, psionics). That is, a 6th-level wizard can cast fireball as a 5th level spell, and it'll use up a 5th level slot (or however the quasi-Vancian...

When I do fantasy, it's really just really soft sci-fi in a setting where people have developed a technology called "magic". Which is to say I just really dislike fluffy, high-fantasy magic, and the idea that magic and technology are fundamentally different forces that cannot coexist. That...

Man, the OH MY GOD THEY ARE COPYING WARCRAFT shrieking would pretty much soar to unacceptable levels.

I, too, would be really happy to see Orcs in the PHB. Drow would be considerably less cool, especially since we've already got Elves, Half-Elves, and Eladrin. As has been observed, that's freaking elf overload, right there. I've got kind of a worried feeling it might be some kind of goddamned...

Yeah, that's what I tend to favor. I generally always want them to be from the same area, and know each other already (or, better yet, be friends or possibly relatives), and--having become known for some kind of badassery--they are hired or requested to perform some service together. I never...

I made a sort of micro-setting to introduce some gamer friends to modern D&D, and the closest thing to orcs in that world were degenerate humans who fell into a bestial state through cannibalism and hardship. They're called raveners, hungry men, the broken clan, and other things, and the idea...

Oh, believe me, there's plenty more I could complain about--for example, the word is spelled grammar--but using chatroom / text message abbreviations is just about the most annoying thing you can do on a message board.

All the awesome new stuff the Wizard is apparently getting looks pretty tantalizing, and I'm also really interested in what kind of new possibilities the post-ToB:Bo9S Fighter offers. But, if I've gotta pick just one, this new Warlord thing definitely requires investigation, and I think it's...

This is a very silly campaign world you're imagining. Yeah, I know what you mean. Magical power provided by an intelligent external force sounds "divine" by default. But maybe there's a more fundamental difference between arcane and divine magic in 4e, something in the nature of the power...

I suspect that'll be over, too. Mechanically, a zombie minotaur in 4e will just be a large zombie.

So far, I think 4e has a general policy of making every natural 20 a big deal. I won't be surprised if critical hits are generalized to "really successfully attacks" rather than being about accurately hitting vital areas.