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In general, I let my players use whatever race they want, which works out well for the games I have recently been running in Planescape and a Spelljammer-inspired setting. If a race doesn't exist, I help them build it; if it does exist but they don't care for it, I help them adapt it. I've...

Malik stares in shock at the crucified woman. He had seen plenty of corpses before, but none like this corpse. Those he had seen in Valefar had been killed by malnourishment or disease most commonly, though sometimes by bow or blade, as with the slain wizard whose items Malik had recovered in...

Like many others, I'd like to see druids and psions, but most of all I long to see the necromancer class. My players and I both love necromancers. They make wonderful villains and interesting PCs, and it's unfortunate that -- assuming they stick to their "classes in PHBs only" and "one PHB per...

Malik awakens from his nightmare with a gasp. The quick breath draws the sand half-filling his mouth deeper, and he begins to choke and cough. It is only after sputtering up the last of the sand that the tiefling finally raises his head. Malik's eyes widen as he sees the array of people and...

If there's one thing D&D needs more of, it's black samurai.

Well, popular or not, they've mentioned a Shaman class a couple times. They've also noted its involvement with nature spirits, meaning the class is almost certainly a primal one. If WotC puts out all the primal classes in PHBII, as it looks likely they will do, then the Shaman is a very good fit...

Mearls later corrected his statement, saying that three are new and the other five are old classes or concepts (source, obtained from the very handy compiled information thread). There seems to be little doubt that the Bard, Barbarian, Druid, Sorcerer, and Shaman are the five returning classes...

I'm a huge Planescape fan, but unlike most others of my kind, I'm actually quite fond of the new cosmology. Not that I won't be making changes, of course--I prefer yugoloths as their own race to a subtype of demon, for instance, and my dominions of the Astral Sea will be different--but on the...

Malik Malik grew up in a slum on the outskirts of Valefar, a predominantly human town. The slum was a sprawling, ramshackle ghetto for the poor, the criminal, the orphaned, and those too different to be accepted by the majority of Valefar. Malik was, to some extent, all of these: he lived alone...

Thank you very much for allowing me the opportunity to play; I'm really looking forward to this game. :) I have a busy weekend coming up, but my finalized character sheet should be posted in the RG thread either tonight or tomorrow morning. And I agree with nonamazing; one OOC thread should...

I've given Malik an update, adding his statistics in addition to his background. I will likely continue adding and tinkering with his background and his character sheet tonight and early tomorrow, hopefully fleshing him out a little better.

Perhaps previously, but in 4th Edition, the soul and mind are explicitly named as the sources of ki and psionic powers in the Player's Handbook, on page 54: "...monks harness the power of their soul energy (or ki), and psions call upon the mind to generate psionic powers."

In addition to the warlord attack that specifically calls for ranged basic attacks, there are several warlord exploits which allow allies to use basic attacks of any type, such as Surprise Attack (7), Beat Them into the Ground (13), or Relentless Assault (25).

Malik: male tiefling wizard, Good alignment, wielding a staff of fiery might +1. Malik grew up in a slum on the outskirts of Valefar, a predominantly human town. The slum was a sprawling, ramshackle ghetto for the poor, the criminal, the orphaned, and those too different to be accepted by the...

I'd love to join this. I'd also be fine playing most any class, depending on what the party needs... which, so far, doesn't seem to be a striker. :p Perhaps a warlord or a wizard.

As a Lovecraft fan, I find the Star Pact to be ridiculously cool (and the Far Realms deserves its own power source, dang it!), although the Fey Pact also has some wonderful flavor. The first two warlocks I'll be gaming with are both Fey warlocks, as well. Most folks with whom I've talked about...

If it's a Sha'ir you're looking for, then Paizo's Dragon Compendium contains a number of new or updated base classes, among them a 3.5 update of the Sha'ir.

Demogorgon and Orcus, as many others in this thread have said, are pretty dang awesome (and Demogorgon especially has some great, inspiring artwork). They probably top my own list, although I've become quite fond of Malcanthet, and the Lovecraft fan in me squeals in delight at Dagon's presence...

I know I've been pretty quiet here for a while, but it's been a very hectic week for me. I hope that over the next few days I'll finally be able to finish up Ying, background included, in time for next week's beginning. Really looking forward to the game. :)

Concerning what was said of the monsters to be included as races at D&D XP: there will be between 12 and 20 playable monster races. So far, we have explicitly confirmed for the MM: Bugbears, Changelings/Doppelgangers (same race), Githyanki, Gnomes, Kobolds, Minotaurs, Orcs, Shadar-Kai, Shifters...