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What this tells us is that you have sharp eyes and a prurient imagination. :p

These are examples of lousy GMing, for sure, but they're not arguments for or against world building - they're arguments for putting a moment of thought in your adventure building!

Because FR is a well-known brand? Or because the WotC designers and developers felt that they could trim off a lot of the detailed lore and still keep the "core identity" of FR? (Whether you think they succeeded or failed, I think this is a reasonable assumption.) Surprisingly enough, it's...

Have to agree. I'm a recovering worldbuilder ( ;) ) who spent way too much time and effort tinkering with stuff the players never knew or cared about. So, my answer to the question in the thread subject would be "Only as much as it improves the game." Also very true. I haven't given up on...

Actually, what my Marvel-reading friends have been complaining is that first they make the old stuff irrelevant, and then repeat the old stuff again.

I found my old "grey box" FR books last weekend, and have been reading them again. It's remarkable how sparse the world they describe actually is, even though the books imply a lot of history and background. 4e FR seems to me like a step back towards this, and as much as I like the 3e FRCS, I...

Could you back this assertion up with anything? Because, on the surface of it, this looks like a yet another thinly veiled dig at 4e and people playing it.

For my 4e uses, I'd decouple the power of a god from the numbers of their followers. The idea that gods are powered by the faith of their worshippers, which began as a subversion of the older ideas, has become the de facto standard, so I think it deserves to be subverted right back. :D (And...

Beg your pardon?

I'm sure there are players out there who balk when told they can't use everything in every book that's come out yet, but overall I think it's a bit exaggerated as a problem. I've played in several campaigns where the available options were limited, sometimes pretty sharply ("Only dwarves and...

That's a crowning moment of awesome if there ever is one! We've had some similar events, with the one crucial dice roll at the dramatically appropriate moment, but never anything quite as cool. :)

F, definitely. I think we can (and do!) argue about whether they went too far, or not far enough, or a little bit of one and a bit of another, or achieved a good balance, with the changes WotC did with 4e, but that's it. A "3.75" probably wouldn't have satisfied anyone in the long run, and...

Pretty much my opinion. 3e FRCS is one of the best D&D books I've seen, and overall an excellent gaming product... but its greatest strength is also its biggest problem: the amount, and density, of information it presents. I'm one of those gamers who's happy to toss canon overboard when it...

What I wanted was what I got: an improvement over 3e. What I expected was something more along the lines of SWSE, but I'm happy with 4e.

Oh yes, and a similar idea has been used with great success by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, among others. But I don't want it to be the default / only take of deities in D&D! This trope, which was originally a subversion of the "traditional" mythic idea of gods by presenting them as needing...

I agree with Knasser, above, that 4e deities are done well. The "three commandments" thing in the PHB was a simple but brilliant idea, for example - it tells you a lot about the various deities, and what their priests and followers might be doing in a very compact form. (They could have put more...

Indeed. In my opinion, the unique thing about halflings is that they aren't territorial at all. They don't build kingdoms or empires, or sequester themselves from other races. Family and racial bonds are tight and important, but they see absolutely no conflict between coming to the aid of your...

That's the best summation of the 4e gnome that I've seen. I've never been a gnome fan, but... who knows, maybe I'll give them a try this time around!

Actually, isn't "4d6, drop lowest" the Method I in 1e?

There's some more info about them (alongside with lots of good stuff on Feywild) in Manual of the Planes.