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Well, duh. All the near-humanoids in D&D are, in appearance, essentially stretched or squashed people with some latex prosthetics on the face. :) Before 3.e, things were even worse, as there was no attempt to create and maintain distinct looks for the then-demihumans. Look at all the Elmore...

About the look of tieflings, I direct people to the Tiefling Cleric miniature in Desert of Desolation set: its horns and tail are both of very manageable proportions. And although the tiefling woman in these preview pics has horns and a tail, I don't think they are especially unwieldy.

If you were satisfied with the 3.* books before 4e was announced, and got good gaming out o them, they're not crap and you didn't waste your money on them. Whether you move on to 4e or keep playing the older edition is irrelevant here, really. No, it wouldn't. It'd be annoying and childish.

Well, that's how I took it, at least. The tiefling is so over-the-top in her "kewl, self-centered bad girl" way, that she has to be a deliberate joke. As for the worries about tieflings being unable to pass as humans, one idea I had was that they start off almost indistinguishable from normal...

1) Orcs 2) Trolls 3) Drow 4) Kobolds 5) Gnolls 6) Hobgoblins 7) Ogres 8) Goblins 9) Sahuagin 10) Githyanki

Better to announce a new edition while the old one is still good and popular than to wait until 3.5e would have been as tired and messed-up as 2e. Which isn't an unusually fast pace in RPG field, really. AD&D was an exception to the normal pace of revisions and new editions, and it shows; it...

Me neither. Give us skimpily clad women drawn to titillate, or give us women dressed appropriately as adventurers; chainmail bikini pretends to be the latter while aiming to be the former. It's kind-of cloying. On the actual subject of the thread, I've really liked almost all of William...

The rogue/swashbuckler in our party carries a couple of Invisibility scrolls, a CLW wand and a Dimension Door scroll, for quick getaways if caught scouting / snooping. UMD is a very useful thing for a rogue to have, but it certainly isn't (and shouldn't be) a necessity.

Outside of D&D, elves also appear as the beautiful, magically powerful, ethereal and/or woodsy people in the LotR movies. How many people saw those, again? Are you joking, here? I'm not sure...

I think both "controversy" and "shock factor" are slightly overblown terms to use here. :)

It's the title she picked, for some reason (maybe Sehanine really, really hates spiders?), but Lolth's field of influence will surely contain darkness, betrayal and backstabbing galore!

The way I see it, after reading the article, is that the elves, eladrin and drow share an instinctive connection with their deities. On the level of individual, the effect of this subtle influence is negligible... but on the level of clans and kingdoms, and across centuries, the desires and...

Well, those are legends and myths; who in the present day can say how much truth they contain? :)

Actually, I think that's exactly why WotC is leaving them off the first PHB: they haven't yet come up with as good stuff, both flavor- and crunchwise as with the other PHB races, so they get put in MM until the designers get the good stuff.

I agree. Either use "god" and "goddess" as appropriate, or use the gender-neutral and perfectly usable term "deity".

That's a real nice gnome pic you did there, Klaus! He looks like he could be quite friendly, or very creepy; more fey, in fact. If this change in looks helps to separate gnomes from skinny dwarves, it's a positive one.

Why, really? Establish the pronunciation once with your group, and you're set. :) And it's obviously EL-ad-rin!

I think those types have been always around; they're not a result of the rules but of a certain type of players. :)

It certainly wins the booby prize. :) Male DB: "I have got to ask: why the sash across the chest? I thought it might be a sign of identification with your companions in the adventuring party, but since you've changed it several time, that cannot be it." Female DB: "Oh, that. I just wear it to...

Roll the dice and act out what happens based on the rolls?