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Agreed. Mystara has always needed quite significant houseruling and tinkering with if you've used it with anything except the BECMI rules; the fans are used to adapting it to whatever version of the rules in use. :)

Perhaps they're the servants of non-good, or specifically of the evil deities, analogous to but separate from angels?

I'm sorry to see the old-style Celestian archons go, but on the other hand I'm glad to see more interesting elemental creatures that fit the (meta)setting better.

Looking at the way Law and Chaos are described in the BECMI D&D (the boxed sets w. Elmore-painted dragon covers), they're essentially just fancy names for "good" and "evil", and there certainly isn't the Moorcockian idea of Balance as the desirable thing in sight.

Seconded; it is an awesome pic. The pitted look of the armor alone is great.

The sword-and-sorcery stories almost never feature any non-humans as anything else but antagonists, either, and the same goes for the wizards; an elf or asorcerer in the party is also in diametric opposition to the S&S tropes. But D&D isn't pure S&S; it's really a genre of its own, mixing...

In this case, I'm using "getting it" to mean "having your funny bone tickled", not "understand where things are going"; apologies for possible confusion. And it's not amusing to you, for whatever reason, whereas others have laughed at it; my whole point was that humor is a subjective matter...

I have to admit that I like the idea of a primordial Law-Chaos struggle as in Planescape... but I also admit that PS is the only (A)D&D setting, where it was presented as a meaningful and important part of the world (universe, multiversum, whatever). I've used to be more supportive of the L-C...

Voted "3e halfling", but I think the difference between them and 4e ones (height aside) is negligible.

You have to look at the change in context, however. How would you differentiate the 3e and previous devils from demons? The two sides are way too similar for creatures which should be very different - compare balors and pit fiends, or erinyes and succubae! Now, 4e is going with more-or-less...

None that I can think of, really. WotC is trying to make devils more humanoid overall, and less craggy gargoyles, chittering giant insects, or scorpion-tailed starvelings. Malcanthet would fit in nicely in the revamped Hellish Hierarchy.

I find myself liking the tiefling looks, with the large horns and the big tails; they have a nice, gargoyle-like look and feel to them, which fits the idea that they're the accursed descendants of people who dealt with the devils. Personally, I'd deal with the issue of the pictured tieflings...

No, we can't. Humor is a funny thing (or not); you either "get" it, or not, and in this case, you (and many others in this thread) are not "getting" it. It doesn't appeal to your sense of humor in the right way. Thus, no amount of explanation would make it seem funny to you, just as the people...

Is there a meaningful difference between the 3e and 4e halflings, based on what we know so far? In any case, what I don't want is hobbitty halflings. They are excellent in Lord of the Rings, but out of place and annoying to have as a PC race in just about every other setting.

We do know that 4e will feature a rule framework for supporting social encouters (a good thing, IMO), so I'm sure we'll find out more about that in the months to come. Give WotC time, people. :)

Yeah. From what I've gathered, the wizard flavor will be one of blasting, yes (but that's been a wizard staple from the very beginning), but also of pushing people around, creating walls of fire or seeping mires, and possibly turning them into stone. The more focused wizard means that we're...

Whoops, nothing to see here... Um, the dragonborn look pretty interesting, right? :)

As long as WotC pays even a smidgen of a hint of respect towards the idea of game balance, D&D will stay lightyears away from Rifts. :)

Yup! And he's got a lair, and his own minions! :D

Superior scouts, camouflage, traps and maintaining a well-armed militia force of every able-bodied elf (explaining why they are all capable archers). Further, didn't R&C fluff indicate that things have been getting tougher for elves, and that's why so many of them have left their original...