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If you have a DM who knows the old 2e lore for the Lady of Pain, she isn't going to show up and kick your butt; unless you do something directly in her purview like try to resurrect Aoskar or something.

Same - I've always imagined her as a figure who acts only when forced to by outside factors. Those factors might be inscrutable, of course. In fairness to Sam Haight, according to Phil Brucato, he started as a joke that perhaps went too far. I always took him less as a serious NPC, and more as...

'Danger 5', an Australian tv show. It was sort of a pulpy, surrealist, 'swinging 60s' depiction of WW2, where animals can talk and the Nazis did things like steal the Eiffel Tower and unleash dinosaurs with machine guns mounted on them on Europe. The colonel who gives the titular team their...

I mean, we're all going to have our own cultural touchstones for what 'people with animal heads' ought to act like.

3 of the 4 5e PCs I've played have been nonvariant humans - we're out here.

I... man, that's a hell of an argument. I'd seriously recommend putting that verbatim in the playtest feedback.

I’d be perfectly happy seeing tieflings, aasimar, and genasi covered as racial options in the rerelease of Planescape. At least in my mind, they kind of make more sense there anyway.

I think we’re in agreement - make the PHB the baseline; let expansions and settings get weird with it.

Fair - I didn't mean to imply that they shouldn't be in the game, but rather whether they should be in the PHB vs. an expansion or setting-specific book. I'm personally a fan of tieflings, but have mixed feelings about them being in the PHB as a 'standard' race, rather than a...

I ask because that was the lineup for the 2e PHB - 3e had the same lineup, but adding the half-orc. Which is your favorite option?

What would you say to one that just had humans, elves, dwarves, gnomes, halflings, and half-elves?

I mean, this is real game development territory, and pokes at my biggest problem with 5e. You're 100% correct that the game is a model of a 'lived world', and a necessarily simplified one - as someone with a passing interest in archery, the idea that attacking with a longbow doesn't involve your...

Agreed. I kind of think it feels natural to me - and weird to even my grognard players - because it was normalized to me in WoD games, which no one at either of my tables got into. Rolling appearance plus academics to blend in as a student on campus? Totally normal in my mind, but alien to my...

I've always been fond of that particular rule variant - '...want to show off your slick breakdancing skills? Give me a dexterity plus performance check!' - but it's never done anything but confuse the heck out of my players.

I answered '5' before I read the top post - I may have a number of different PHBs kicking around, but just the one 5e one.

In fairness, it's also possible for Hasbro/Wizards to be a very large company, while the D&D team within it to be small and stretched thin - I actually have no idea what their staffing is like, but it's entirely possible.

This is probably borderline at best, as they're listed in Appendix N; but for me, it's any depiction of Fafhd and the Grey Mouser drawn by Mike Mignola: