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No, it's most empathically not a reduction in role-playing; it's giving you solid rules to support your roleplaying, so that the naturally charismatic and fast-talking players won't rule the social interactions no matter what their characters can do. Have you ever played any of the White Wolf's...

As others have said, gnomes don't have anything that other races - elves, halflings and dwarves - don't do better, except possibly the "weird inventors" angle, which was almost as annoying as the kender in Dragonlance, and which doesn't fit most D&D settings.

Gnolls, in every campaign I've ever played in. Also, weren't drow women generally bigger than men? Anyway, as a mammalian, I'll go with boobs for dragonborn. Let them lay eggs and nurse their young.

If you go wrestle with one, you deserve to be mashed. :)

Well, that's it; I'm going to get this for myself for Christmas. :D The dwarf women keep cropping up because people can't seem to let go of Tolkien (and even he never said they were bearded...) :)

Agreed; I'm continuously surprised by the amount of people who actually like them.

Golden Wyvern Adept is nothing compared to Tsojcanth, Zagig Yragerne or the other various pun names Gygax came up with. If people can play Greyhawk without problems, they can and will get over GWA... unless they want to be aggrieved.

No, it does not imply anything like that, any more than the presence of Pelor in 3.* PHBs implies that there is Pelor both in FR and Eberron. All it implies that the default setting of the game had a realm called Arkhosia, or a tiefling empire of Bael Turath. Seriously, this should not be...

Design difficulties, perhaps; you'd end up stretching the good stuff too thinly, or have to build unelegant and awkward things into the system? Also, 30 levels split nicely into three ten-level tiers of play.

The 1st-level wizard (or better yet, a sorcerer) is going to have his own spells in addition to the wand. And they're unlikely to be adventuring alone. Still, if you assume four uses of the wand per encounter, that's still 12.5 encounters... which is about the point where they're going to get...

Overall, that sounds great! I'll have to consider getting the actual book when it shows up here...

Less so, I think, because a) there are so many combinations of such stuff; this means you won't get four characters in the party who all have roughly the same magic items; b) such items are certainly useful, but not as universally useful as the Doodah of primary ability +6 and, c) with the...

What are you basing these fears on, if I may ask?

Whatever it is, it doesn't look like a gnoll to me; fiendish or otherwise.

Perhaps it's my not being a native English-speaker, but I don't see anything odd about the name.

Drizzt is a (IIRC) 17th-level multiclassed ranger, who is mostly active only in the North, with some occasional forays down the Sword Coast. He is, actually, an example of a high-level NPC who isn't setting-disruptive, nor can really be used as such.

Commoner, Expert or Warrior; Bilbo or Frodo might have been Aristocrats. A first-level character in any of the adventurer classes already has a lot of quite unusual and specific training; a starting fighter isn't just a farmboy who took Grandpa's old sword from the wall and set out to look for...

Hyboria is "Earth", in that it is a fantastic, fictional "pre-prehistory" of our world. That said, apart from the names and the fact there are humans around, Hyboria isn't any more Earth than any other fantasy world that draws upon real-world historical and mythological roots.

Whatever your opinion on Drizzt, he is one of, if not the most iconic character in FR. Also, that pic is pretty good overall. So, as long as the contents are good, I'm not complaining.

It's not the size, but the fact that elves, despite (or because?) their conflicting "role" were and are popular; gnomes, not so much.