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People might be confusing them with Warhammer Eldar.

That is a pretty bizarre, narrow-minded line of thinking. So if the party wants to chase a fleeing thief across rooftops, if some of the party members are unable to make all the relevant skill checks, I should tell the players the thief escapes because skill training. Gotcha.:hmm: What...

I can honestly say that in nearly 25 years of D&D I have seen a party buy a mule exactly once. It got carried off in a wyvern attack a few sessions in.

I would hate for 3e's wand of cure light wounds to become 5e's potion of healing. Keeping them (relatively) expensive is worthwhile to me. That said, 10 days for a single potion seems a little excessive. I'd probably allow people to double the expense to halve the time (making them the same...

Like you mention, some skills you will definitely want at least one party member to have, while others are useful to everyone. I don't think an A-F scale is really a good fit, as some of those "C" skills are vitally important to the party as a whole, and being a C implies they're mediocre...

I'd have probably gone with Survival instead of Religion, but still a solid offering. :)

Races: I facetiously banned shardminds, just because I think they're so bizarre, but if somebody actually wanted to play one I'd figure out a way to reskin it and make it work. My FR campaigns don't allow Dark Sun or Eberron races, and the Dark Sun game uses only DS races (plus a few more I've...

The Thousand-Yard Stare

I'm a fan of everything in that preview.

Flame Skull and the one enemy spellcaster I looked at have both slots and prepared spells listed, so presumably. The monster guide doesn't have any explicit rules on spellcasting monsters. The monster stat blocks simply state that they cast spells as a level x wizard, with these slots and...

Although I am a big fan of self-contained stat blocks, I don't mind looking up a few spells if they're kept to a minimum. Stormonu's (who I can't XP yet) one-liners would be great. You'd also have to include the at higher levels augmentations, though, or you'd be doing the monster a disservice.

Welcome to "rulings, not rules" everybody. ;)

I seem to remember another uproar when 3e turned halflings into dreadlock-wearing river rats. We got over it. :cool:

I'm not sure how Paizo expanded on them is really relevant to WotC's interests? I'm not very well-informed on PF but didn't they appear only 2 years ago in the Advanced Race Guide? There's also about 2 million players of the Neverwinter PC game which are familiar with the Turathi tiefling...

Yeah, there's a big difference between optimization and favoring mechanics that let you fully realize a character concept. It looks like his followup point addresses that difference. For me, 4e scratches that itch pretty well. Classes and builds play very differently from each other (even if...

It certainly seems to have brought back a lot of old forum members.

This sums it up nicely. It is regrettable that the 4e tiefling usurped the name, but what's done is done and I'd wager the majority of players today are more familiar with that version than its Planescape incarnation. And I say that as a huge Planescape fan.

My weekly group will stay with 4e for the foreseeable future. My bimonthly group is enjoying 4e now, but since the majority of players in that group are fans of 1e and 2e, we might switch to 5e if the PHB and DMG are tempting enough.

To use an oft-repeated meme, "This" I don't have much more to add, other than that I hope rangers get a lot of swift spells which function more like (gasp) spell-like abilities/martial exploits rather than actual stand-there-and-mumble-some-words-of-magic-while-making-funny-gestures spells.

Ok, more like "10th" I lost count.