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Elite Bulette and Solo Beholder.... and also Gnomes

Well, again 6 ft tall at 130 pounds is going to be the elven average. So consequently the Kate Moss and Keira Knightly of Elfland is going to weight in at no more than 60 to 70 pound.

True... but a long-term nutrition shortage the type you'd see in the middle-ages stunts growth, not the height/weight relation. So if food is scarce in elven-country, they should be shorter, not necessarily so much thinner. Also, there's still the majority of people living in non-western...

Why would it? I've played many a middle-earth rpg and they're great. Despite being so superior, elves don't get any extra limelight in the LoTR-Tale either. Similarly, I've played many games of D&D in the old days where lvl 2 rogues side with lvl 20 wizards, etc.. . People need to get off...

True.. but how much of his wisdom was a racial freebe from his elven heritage, and how much of it was a combination of the celestial input in the remaining 1/4th and some 6.000 years of accumulated life-experience?

Elrond's not an Elf...

Is it? I think twitchy ears are quite satisfactory. It may not be perfect... true... but than again, it's only a game and hence it doesn't need to be.

Well, Druids will lose alot of their "Priest-of-Nature" touch in 4e and go to being mainly Shapeshifters. So someone beefing up the elven forest-fetish with religious babble and bring those rebellious younglings in line to the racial schtick as "community&spiritual-leader" would seem to imply...

I can see the rational behind all this. But since it so drastically reduces the chance of failure, the question arises if it is economical to still roll dice at all. Might just do.. Elven Accuracy + Perception: Once per encounter, by using this ability one of you're arrow hits! .. and get on...

I'm not too excited by the stat-creep. What's the point of havin a rogue with Dex 18 or a Barbarian with equally exceptional strenght, if every wizard and his dog clock in at 14 to 16 in those stats aswell. Ultimately, it'll just lead to less diversity among players in stats and makes it an...

But even herders kill from their herd. That's the entire point of herding it in the first place, though of course you'd have to ensure sustainability by not killing more of your flock than what is born to the herd (and lives to a reasonable age).

QFT, that'd be the direction to go.. plant a new seed for every tree you fell, add the odd special tree that's revered and not to be touched (and fiercly avenged by the elven community) and have them use woodcraft normally (or even exceptionally) otherwise.

Birds are warmblooded, reptiles are not. Thats one big difference, likely more than that between Birds and Mammals. You sure? Wouldn't want to miss the 4e version of the seedy tavern, where beguiling thiefling and dragonborn maids tempt the young Paladins with their exotic bosom...

A more sensible approach.. true. I just picked the most "drastic" variant to highlight how rules shape presumptions and dynamics of a game to counter argumentations along the "rules are irrelevant to roleplaying as roleplaying happens outside the rules anyways " line.

Still, rules set the pace and the direction. Example: Stop giving out xp for fighting, killing and looting. Period! Start giving out xp for role-playing, flavorful conversation in the local tavern or any other type of in-character behaviour in social situations. Changes the premise on which...

Well, for one, I think D&D has both wargame roots (the really old stuff) and, in its 3rd Ed. version was part of backlash against the roleplaying-heavy games of the 90 when White Wolf & Co. ruled the industry. So trying to take D&D where it wasn't intended to go and/or doesn't want to go might...

QFT, also hot, sweaty sex between party members are a definite must have.. so reptilian, egg-laying player races are certainly non-functional for my D&D Game.

I don't know... a god of agriculture doesn't lend itself to adventuring better or worse than, say, a god of death or a god of warfare. Followers of the former would likely man funerals and death rites (just as his agriculture counterparts attend harvest and fertility rites) and followers of the...

Or I'll stop them in mid-air by the force of deeper insight, letting them drop harmlessly to the floor. There is no spoon!

Yup.. sorry, but in that regard WoW killed D&D and took it's stuff. Lamentating the fact that you did it first wont change that. If it would, a certain Gary Gygax would still be helming the D&D franchise now. Shapeshifting druids simply is WoW now! ;) Live with it.