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Books are not the future. The publishing industry as a whole is in the midst of a sea change brought on by cheap, widely available digital content and increased competition from, well, everything. This is a problem for WotC and D&D too. People think 4e's divisiveness killed it, but I tend to...

??? Allowing for some differences between the editions, I would say the mechanics are very similar to the 4e version. Boosts to INT and CHA, check. Enhanced ability to see in the dark, check. Fire resistance, check. 4e doesn't specify that Tieflings speak Infernal, but they get a bonus language...

You are putting it mildly. For some folks the sheer mention of 4e makes them crazy. I don't know if you can get a "tl;dr" version without being dragged through 5+ years of bad blood. I'll just say that 4e was an edition that wasn't afraid to try some new things and slaughter some sacred cows...

I would be 100% okay with this. ;) In fact, halflings as they are described in modern D&D are quite a bit different than how they were described in OD&D. And look at GNOMES, for gods sakes! Races do in fact change over time. They get reinvented and reimagined. In the case of Tiefling you...

It would be stupid of them to pull it and cut off a free revenue stream and anger a significant part of their player base. Which is why I'm confident at some point they will do exactly that. :erm:

I don't quite understand this. The Planescape tiefling is obviously setting specific. It would be a bit strange to suddenly throw a PS race into the PH. Nor does the presence of a non-PH tiefling in the core book imply that the PS flavor tiefling won't show up in the Planescape setting book...

You can't say Aasimar without Aasssss... and there's your problem right there. The name is problematic. Also the hook is not strong. Aasimar look like... pretty people with silver hair? D&D lore already has a plethora of races that are basically "Human, but a different color." And how do you...

I have to say, I really like this piece of tiefling art that appears in 13 True Ways (13th Age expansion):

The 4e tiefling. Note that his head is 98.2% horn: Also he apparently has a dragon tail welded to his butt.

Actually, those horns are WAY scaled back from the horns of the 4e tiefling, which were straight outta Hellboy. I'm not familiar with Planescape tieflings other than the fact that they had smaller horns and were generally tailless. I gotta say, I prefer that option, but it's trivial to...

Well, the idea is to get away from picking new powers, which requires a menu of new powers every other level. Make new powers a rare thing, and make normal powers scale. In that scenario, this isn't a dead level - your power gets more powerful! You can do away with the power cap too, as you'll...

Slim to gnome, I'd say! :blush:

YOU, my friend, are an optimist! To have a game with deep, tactical combat like 4e, you need to build the classes for it from the ground up. Even a very robust set of alternate rules is not going to get you there. And I don't think we're going to see a set of robust alternate rules. I think...

Talents are basically build options, of which of course the fighter has a few (such as Cleave). But the main feature of the class is the maneuvers and 'flexible' attacks - roll first, decide what you're doing afterwards. I think this is pretty clever. But it is possible that due to the dice and...

Somewhere there was an interview with 4e designer Rob Heinsoo where he stated that Powers in 4e were originally going to be fewer and scale with level, but that they were basically forced for marketing purposes to design new powers for every level so they could sell splat books and power cards...

Different system, but perhaps relevant to this topic: the new 13th Age book, "13 True Ways", has extensive material about Devils. Demons were already a major force in the Dragon Empire setting, so the book has to address the question of where Devils fit and how they are different. There are some...

My heart belongs to 13th Age but my gaming group isn't ready to leave 4e behind just yet. In the meantime we're bastardizing 4e with elements of 13A, especially Backgrounds.

Really? I thought the fighter was brilliant! What were you looking for? Several of the classes in the core book were designed to be relatively simple for players who prefer that sort of thing. No such considerations were made in 13TW! ! The book talks about the monk as an homage to high flying...