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You might have a point overall, but focusing on those race comparision pics is a really lousy way of making that point. Also, Klaus: great pic of the druidess!

"There are two kinds of foolishness; one says that everything new is good because it's new; the other that everything old is good because it's old." :) Or, in other words, I strongly disagree. Adherence to tradition is only a good idea if the tradition itself is good.

This one, I like. "What do we want? Nothing much; just a little enclave here, trespassing rights there, a few portals to get around. Say, we have some things you might want; trifling little things, really. A few ideas, some magics, a handful of baubles... That one? You want that? Certainly! Now...

I think splitting the word apart improves it. "Fey Wild(s)"?

Well... no. Shadowfell = Underworld. You know, the reason for why this reminds you of the Exalted cosmology (it's not "spot on", IMO, though) might just be that both games are tapping to similar mythological material... Feywild is the Faerie, Shadowfell is the Greek underworld, the gods are off...

Where do you get that "retroactively lobotomized" thing? I mean, seriously. Just because WotC is giving demons an overgoal of "destroy everything", it doesn't turn all demons into idiots...

I think you're confusing "game" and "setting".

There's a great paragraph in Black House where a demon (sort of) gloats about the anticipated apocalypse, when they shall burn and devour all the worlds, leaving nothing but empty husks floating in an all-consuming fire.

I'm positive about the changes; not to the point of "love it!" (because it's not that important to me, really), but positive. As much as I like Planescape, Blood War and the general conflict between Law and Chaos, I readily admit that the Law-Chaos dichotomy is very contentious and that demons...

Looks interesting. I'm a Planescape fan, as I may have said, but I think that this cosmology change has a lot of interesting potential to offer.

Nice idea; shields tend to be pretty meh-worthy now, good only for adding some armor enhancement bonuses.

The original poster dislikes the very idea of there being a 4th edition which isn't exactly like his preferred edition, except better, so he compares the 4th edition (which we still don't know nowhere enough to make any serious judgment calls, really) to the universally panned SenZar. Next, I...

'Anime' is a buzzword; it doesn't have to based on anything except fear, uncertainty and doubt. "It's not drawn by Dave Trampier or Erol Otus; it's anime!" "That elf doesn't look the same as the elves in 3e/2e/1e/Basic DD/ODD/my personal imagination; it's anime encroaching into D&D!"

Hey, that's a nice-looking manticore! (As far as the critter can look nice, of course. :) ) Klaus, have you ever done pictures of the various sphinxes? I think the gynosphinx in MM looks good, but we're missing the other sphinxes...

I don't know, but it certainly sounds plausible.

Tangentially, one of the great things about 3.* edition was the way it made elves, dwarves and halflings look like races of their own, not just "big-haired people with pointy ears", "short big-headed people with beards" and "short, dumpy people with big bare feet" that are drawn differently by...

Bah, I liked the 3.* edition manticore and minotaur pics. They're not a bat-winged lion with a beard or a man with a bull's head, but something that you could perfectly well describe as ones, especially if you had to describe them to someone who has never seen one.

I'm just starting in a SW Saga Edition campaign (not SAGA; that was the card-based game), so it's too early for me to comment much about the game. Character creation, however, is very smooth and streamlined, and there are a plenty of options available without things getting confusing. (I'm an...

The (A)D&D take of wands and staffs as "magical six-guns" doesn't really have much mythical or fictional background that I can recall. I'm hoping the tools of wizardry will replace material components (another D&Dism) for most spells; expensive and elaborate stuff for rituals, summonings and...

Mialee has a mullet for the same reason she wears that slashed tan flap-dress thing: she's an elf nerd with no fashion sense. :)