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I expect and hope that the 4e books will have more DMing help than before; certainly the designers have been saying that the rules will be more transparent, with explanations of why things work like they do. If so, the new DMs will likely have an easier time figuring out whether they want to...

It's a very cool idea indeed! Another possible formulation of the difference between demons and yugoloths: the former want to murder the universe; the latter want to drive it to madness and suicide. "You cling to your ideas of meaning and beauty, of goodness and purpose. We know better. Demons...

I think you could make a fairly good case of elves and eladrin being, collectively, closer to Tolkien's elves than the D&D elves of earlier editions, but that depends a lot on how you look at them.

Missing the humor tag at the first glance, I intended to make a snarky post about how much I'm starting to hate these nit-picking polls... but you did it better with the actual poll. :)

D&D is not LotR; RPGs are not books; and things which work for one may not work with the other. Hobbits are rustic homebodies who shun the world outside the borders of their own lands, and generally speaking avoid anything remotely resembling adventures. They work very well in LotR, because a)...

Stop right there. Do we know that rings, in 4e D&D, will not be powerful, possibly willful, magic items that can only be mastered by someone with great personal power? We don't; in fact, the level limit thing implies something like this will be the case. Again, you are assuming there will be...

And they're done that. You no longer can load up every damn slot on your body with an Item of +x to Ability, as you could do in 3.*. You have three primary slots for doing that, with no overlap, and secondary slots for giving you things to do instead of boosting your ability to do the same thing...

I agree with you, because that's one of my points: demons don't have, IMO, to be always chaotic in 4e, nor devils lawful; I think it's actually been said outright by the WotC. Thus, decoupling the fiends' motivations from law and chaos, and giving them actual motivations ("Escape from Hell /...

I assume you mean level, not weapon... Anyway, if you can take the discrete power bump at new level and not lose your WSoD*, why would there being a level limit for being able to use a powerful magic iten be any more difficult? "Rings are not toys to be trifled with; they contain great power...

To answer the question asked, it depends entirely on what rings will do. Magic rings have always been a very disunified bunch of items in D&D, with no rhyme or reason to their powers or power level; you have weak-bordering-on-useless baubles like Ring of Water Walking...

Shouldn't that be tripled? That's the way it usually works in D&D.

For the most of time, yes. But I think there's certainly room for calculating, methodical demons that hide their hatred and destructive impulses beneath a mask of calm. Hannibal Lecter might be a good model for this kind of a demon, actually: intelligent, persuasive, even refined... but in the...

That's likely because the changes to halflings are fairly minor, as far as I can tell. The outrage can't get purchase on them! :) Like your pics, too.

You know, the more I think about the whole "excitement and drama needs death!" thing, the more convinced I am that it's the threat of death that's exciting, not the actual dying. Anyway, anything which makes Healing an useful skill beyond the first few levels is going to be a good thing in my...

The miniature looks pretty fugly, at least from this angle, but I think it's more a problem with the sculpt/paint job than with the design; the green dragon on the cover in that pic is much better-looking. I, too, like Claudio's snaky green dragon design; it looks pretty darn venomous!

Yet there are plenty of low-level wizards, and fighters, rogues, monks and so on. Do you believe none of them can engage in meaningful intrigues, wield influence, rule towns and kingdoms, deal with enemies gunning for their head, and so on? Because all the arguments you present against...

No, it's just that the majority of people here don't think dragons need to be able to cast spells to be more than just combat monsters. And as it has been pointed to you time and time again, you could add spellcaster class levels to dragons, or just give them rituals for non-combat-affecting...

The thing to keep in mind, of course, is that dragons are neither lizards nor reptiles; they're dragons. And dragonborn aren't dragons; they're creatures with both human and draconic features. So, as usual, despite the amusement it may give, it's ultimately utterly pointless to argue about...

Can't remember what Draconomicon says, but in my games, it's always been understood that dragons have pretty dextrous forelegs, and - subject to size issues, like a Huge dragon trying to handle a Tiny object - can do a lot of stuff without problems.

No, they do not need it; magic can be useful and convenient, but it's not, strictly speaking, necessary, as people have shown to you time and time again. Also, as everyone else in this discussion has been telling you, even if dragons lack spells, you the GM can give them access to rituals, or...