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I've noticed that 4e books read worse than 3e, but play better. Since it is a game, at heart, I'm willing to accept this. (Besides, both of them both read and play better than most of the 2e stuff I have, MM excluded.)

I've seen complaints about WotC re-using art for MM several times in the past, so I sat down with the book and went through the illustrations. By my count, there are 201 illustrations in the book. Of these, I recognized eight as definitely re-used: Astral stalker Battle devil Drow Gorgon Bog...

Dogs started off as wolves, which - as highly intelligent, social chaser-predators - are about the closest psychological match for humans outside other primates in the first place; and we've spent last ten thousand years breeding them into more and more human-like in tendencies. I'd say that...

You tell me, since you made that up. Also, you might notice that in the same post where I argued that you can't have really alien PCs, I suggested a simple way to make Dragonborn psychology more different from humans that would not render them impossible to empathize with. For a home exercise...

You know, there's an excellent reason why the PC races aren't all that alien, and why they all play as somewhat exaggerated human stereotypes with cosmetic detailing and stat modifiers... This is a game played by humans! Your characters must be at least somewhat human, or you're unable to...

Godlike but very, very fallible, really. That's what saved Tolkien's elves from the twinkery: in the First Age and before, they made a ton of really bad and stupid decisions because of pride, greed, stubbornness and whatnot; repeated it in the Second Age with the Rings of Power; and had...

How and why are Dragonborn cheap? It's your opinion, of course, but it seems to be something a lot of people don't share. (And "making female dragonborn instantly recognizable as female, instead of just dragon-people with different colors or a smaller crest" != "making them sexy and kewl".)

Since 1994, IIRC, and they've been quite popular from the start. And have never been particularly popular. Keeping something in the game just because it's always been there is not reasonable. And yes, just like everyone else, I don't hate gnomes, I just don't care about them. Beyond the...

This. Men, women, whatever: we're all people.

And that's more half-assed pseudo-biological "reasoning" brought up by people who think too hard about fantasy, to quote Hong. Honestly, I'm perfectly fine with DBs laying eggs and nursing their young, without having to cram them into some warped version of real-world taxonomy just because as a...

This article just increases my desire to play a dragonborn when I finally actually get to play 4e. :)

I agree with your reasoning, and add as a bonus that they really drive some people to conniptions.

No, but they are calling you an elitist, not elite. There's a difference; you appear to be an elitist, but you certainly aren't elite.

Of course, being elitist does not mean you're part of an actual elite; in most cases, it's just that you have delusions of grandeur. ;)

Indeed. I'll take the newbies, with their annoying slang and non-traditional ideas, any day over the jaded, set-in-their ways oldsters with their own annoying slang.

Your personal preferences are not objective measurements of good and bad, you know.

It's been said, but I repeat it: the "compelling image" of a gnome that the average person is going to have is the garden gnome. (Or, if they've played WoW, a tiny, somewhat annoying tinkerer.) Furthermore... someone "totally inexperienced in any form of fantasy/RPG/geekery"? Who would that be...

Yes, that's why they're explicitly discouraging Evil-aligned PCs in the PHB. :hmm: Or, in other words, you're spouting frantic hyperbole.

Gaming is a very conservative (not politically) hobby, I've noticed; all the stuff about gamers being more imaginative and open to new things than the average person is starting to seem like a lot of bunk to me. Anyway... if someone is comparing the Dragonborn to Star Wars (not that the idea of...