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I'm actually thinking that "primal" might be what they call the nature-based power source. It definitely sounds better than "nature", "natural", "feral", or "fey".

These days, that name has other baggage.

That really sounds pretty insane to me. I take it you can't play with warforged either, then?

Seriously, Driddle is at least completely right about the half-elves. They have no niche, and there really is absolutely no need for them as a fully-developed race. I don't own any Eberron books, and I've never played anything set in Eberron (unless you count a few hours in the free demo of...

Yeah, I was just on my way here to make noise about that. Finally a dragonborn picture! And, amazingly, I'm totally happy with it. Mostly because it could basically pass for an especially badass-looking lizardman.

I'm hoping their take them back to their insane, deeply bizarre roots.

There definitely seems to be a big mane of fur or quills or something behind its head.

I believe in the separation of fluff and crunch because, as a general rule, I don't like other people's fluff. I'd rather handle that stuff myself. So when a company mixes their fluff in with their crunch, it bothers me. ...Especially when that fluff includes names like "Golden Wyvern" and...

I dunno. It sure has a dragonish tail. Plus, it seems to be dressed like an adventurer.

Hell, I'm still doing that. And I'm a rushing-to-be-an-early-adopter 4e supporter. But, really, I always tended to like all those weird d20/OGL variants more than straight D&D v.3.5, anyway. There's a pretty good chance that my next D&D campaign will end up being some mad hybrid of 3e, 4e...

Man, even the WotC people have realized how frigging ridiculous their naming practices get. I hope that means they'll back off on the flowery names, already.

"Realistic" is not a word I'd use for archetype protection mechanics.

You could start with the DMG's suggested adventure rewards. Take the appropriate adventure reward for a party of your PCs' level, subtract some percentage to account for whatever loot they might find along the way, and call that number the average map sale price. That should be the amount get...

Whoa, this makes me think of the exploration campagin Stormborn just started. Or, at least, it makes me think of the cool opportunities in the basic concept he mentioned. I might be reading too much into his post, but the idea sounds like it would put the focus on just travelling to new...

Aw, man, the idea of a D&D party serving as explorers and cartographers for a map-making consortium is completely awesome. I like how it makes a Craft skill central to the campaign, and how exploration becomes the party's main source of payout, rather than loot-gathering. And, of course, there...

It always struck me as drastically dumb that the d20 system asks people to break out the percentile dice to roll against probabilities that could easily be handled by a freaking d20. Hopefully, that will end.

Have you read the Worldwar books, by any chance?

That sounds pretty absurd, really. I could definitely get behind just changing the name of the Barbarian class to Berserker, but "barbarian" as a race doesn't make any sense at all.

I don't blacklist. I whitelist. And that all depends on the campaign I'm running. Dragonborn do sound more interesting than elves, though.

Arguments could be made against that assertion. But yeah. Dragonborn can pretty much be expected to have the same motivations as every other intelligent species. The thing we're waiting to see, though, it their culture, the lens through which all those motivations will work. Can't say I'm...