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As more and more information about the 4e changes appears, I'm becoming more optimistic about the whole thing. That said, we'll probably stick to our current campaign, possibly trying to adapt to the new rules while sticking with the old timeline.

There are very few settings where dropping an entire country, full of odd people, in via a magical event is appropriate and not lousy worldbuilding; but Forgotten Realms is one of those. That's how, in the FR history, at least elves, orcs and the ancestors of the Mulhorandi people have gotten to...

There's also a problem with continuously harassing characters who retreat to rest: it is no fun for the players. Occasional nightly ambushes and wandering monsters are good to keep people on their toes, but if it becomes a constant thing, either the characters are going to come up with a way to...

A lot of the time yes, familiars are mostly useless in 3e. (Though not nearly as useless as in 2e!) And their vulnerability is an issue, as well. With the advent of the Unearthed Arcana and its variant sorcerer types, I don't see why any sorcerer wouldn't drop the ability to get a familiar and...

Are the dwarves going to be taller, now? I've heard of both halflings and elves/eladrin getting a height boost, but nothing about dwarves.

Very well indeed!

I agree with you about the near-impossibility of meaningfully using utterly incomprehensible or indescribable things in gaming or fiction; even Lovecraft had to draw upon real-world elements for his description of Cthulhu or the shoggoths or whatnot. (The most indescribable thing in his stories...

Q: How do dragons build lairs? A: Using a combination of minions, thralls and slaves, and their own fearsome claws, iron-hard horns and terrible strength. Also, breath weapons and possibly long-term ritual magic which there is no point to quantify with game mechanics. (I've always thought that...

Got to say that I've never particularly cared for Far Realm in D&D. I do like Lovecrafty elements, but I've always thought they work better if they're either rooted to already-existing things (the inhuman and maddening obyriths in Fiendish Codex I were an excellent example of this), or are weird...

... Yeah, I think I do. Esoteric body control abilities, meditation, psi-tattoos, and the occasional flashy ki blast... It could work very well.

I keep seeing this, and I keep disbelieving that this is going to be a problem. The people who will do this... do you think they were going to role-play anyway? Not in my experience. And the players who roleplay everything won't stop doing that just because they are suddenly given a rule like...

Maybe, but that more leisurely-paced and long-lived profit stream means you're not as badly hosed if the game's leaked one week before publication.

Indeed. And the idea of a psionic martial artist is also worth looking into, I'd say!

4) If you have a bunch of warlike, brutal CN-to-CE barbarian humans living near warlike, brutal, CE-to-CN orcs, I wouldn't be all that surprised if the tribes started to blur at the edges. The two groups have more in common than they have with the gold-grabbing LN-ish dwarves in the mountains...

Based on my extensive research (looking at the discussion here and on RPG.net), the purpose of breasts on female dragonborn is to occupy the time of the gamers in extensive arguments about the purpose and appropriateness of breasts on female dragonborn. :) More seriously, Drevan's explanation...

Agreed. Orcs have been moving from "monster with pie to kill" to being a race, albeit a barbaric and mostly hostile one, in FR, and the edition change would be an excellent time to bring them in fully. (Also, having full orcs around as a player race means you don't need half-orcs, which have...

How I would do refurbish Spelljammer? First and foremost, make it a setting of its own; not a half-donkeyed way of connecting existing settings, with all the baggage that involves. This means giving Spelljammer a tone of its own. I'd go with the 16th-16th-century vibe of pirates, explorers and...

I like the idea of having an implied PoL setting in the core books, up to and including a sample town; however, for reasons which I can't quite explain even to myself, I feel that including a map (at least, a map of more than the surroundings of the sample town) is too much.

If you mean this thread still going on, I agree.

We might see a reduction, or at least streamlinging of many of the redundant critters in the new edition. They've started with celestials, as we saw. ;)