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Heh...touché.

This thread is beginning to highlight my biggest problem with any edition of the D&D game. Any sort of criticism of the system, valid or not, is inevitably construed as an attack, thus beginning an edition war. It happens whenever people discuss any previous edition. It happens when people...

I don't mind exotic-sounding names, so long as they don't strike me as lame. I like Acid Arrow. I'm fine with Melf's Acid Arrow. Red Gorilla Plasma Bolt is a turn off, because it's dumb. Disclaimer: There is no such thing as Red Gorilla Plasma Bolt. I was using it as an extreme example, nothing...

I liked that bards were badasses, and that druids had to duel with their superiors to advance to 12th level and beyond.

My general experience with all editions is that new players aren't going to be trying to crack open the DM's Guide anyway. Many of them don't even go through the Player's Handbook. I've introduced many new players to the game, and I've never handed them any sort of rule book to do it. It's...

Played it, had fun with it, but ultimately decided that I liked the rules improvements that came with 2nd edition better.

Elves are immediately recognizable to even casual fans of fantasy. They have existed in dozens of different books, movies, and video games. By comparison, dragonborn are not nearly as recognizable. If you describe the game to a new player, it's pretty likely that he can get a general idea of...

I dunno...even when I first got into D&D, I already knew what a dwarf and an elf was. I had an idea of what a fighter and a magic-user could do, and orcs, minotaurs, stone giants, and sprites were all familiar to me. The game expanded drastically from these fantasy archetypes, and I got into...

I think the issue with races like eladrin, tieflings, and dragonborn is that they're pretty exclusive to D&D, fluff-wise. I've always thought that generic races work best in the Player's Handbook, while more exotic ones belong in campaign setting books or Monster Manuals. It's easy to tell a...

I think it was dumb to have a mystery race in the first place. Doing so meant a lot of hype for a big let down, no matter what it was.

In any version of the D&D game, most of my friends were also DMs from time to time, which made the whole "players shouldn't have access to the DM's Guide" thing pretty pointless in my groups.

I don't see why that would preclude them from being included in D&D. Tolkien never wrote about a monster that appeared as a bunny on a stump, but we still got the wolf in sheep's clothing. He didn't write about rust monsters, mind flayers, Abyssal lords, defiling magic, flying carpets, or a...

I'll probably check out the SRD to mine it for some house rules. Other than that, the previews have strongly suggested that 4th edition will not fit my tastes.

The explanation for my setting is that elves and orcs are too distant from each other. Humans are a middle ground, distantly related to both species -- they're sort of a missing link between orcs and elves. That said, if a PC really wanted to play an Elforc, I'd probably allow it. My guess is...

I ran my first 3rd edition game before either the DM's Guide or the Monster Manual came out. I remember using the orcs and hell hounds that were presented in the back of the Player's Handbook, and the rest of the foes were adventurer characters. I didn't need the DM's Guide to figure out magic...

Even if the online magazines become as good as the print ones were, I would still prefer had copies. I like the convenience of a paper issue. I know that digital is supposedly the future, and I've heard comic companies claim the same thing. However, my preference is squarely pointed toward...

When 3rd edition came out, I was pretty deeply in debt and getting geared up for college. I still enjoyed the 2nd edition game, to the point where I wasn't convinced that the new edition was going to be an actual improvement. But I had been paying attention to the development of 3e, and I...

I like Power Attack. I'm not the kind of player who spends a lot of time trying to figure out the ideal mathematical tradeoff, though. And as a DM, I never let a player waste a lot of time determining an action (it boils down to, "Choose what you're doing or your character wastes this round...

While I'm not about to go on a rant about the cost of the game, I am a little disappointed that WotC isn't doing something like they did with the 3rd edition release and offering the core books at a discount for a while. The fact that the Player's Handbook was only $20 on the day of its release...

While the dryad supposedly will have the ability to appear as the gentle tree spirit of the past, the fact that they can transform into big ol' tree monsters changes them dramatically. The dryad of before is a creature who needs to rely on enchantments and trickery. The dryad of 4th edition is...