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My notion is that I could do that new Kara-Tur adventure with three characters, all monk hybrids --- a striker/defender, a striker/controller, and a striker/leader. Any ideas?

It's good game design . . . I remember back in the day, with races like kender and gulley dwarves and even drow, and the whole alignment of Chaotic Neutral, where the books were damn near instructing the player to ruin the game for everyone whenever possible.

I'd be interested in knowing the thought process there. I'd guess it's a matter of encouraging a more nuanced approach to the roleplaying. If the default satyr PC is nothing but frolicking and fornicating with the occasional homicidal rage, it could get pretty old pretty quick. But throw in...

Goes nice with a party of pixies, too. I might have to pitch a "Shifters of Kara-Tur" article and do that five-animals-style idea . . .

This also would work as a variant shifter with the Tiny form as a new racial ability option, sure. The advantage is that you get access to the existing feats and such for shifters. The real question is whether it's a single subrace or a slew of them. This article is a pretty faithful update...

Right . . . didn't say that in my first post, but I thought it.

Done. I like having the Tiny beast form for "flight," the hybrid for "fight," and the human form as camouflage.

Indeed. Which I guess is how I ended up with "salvage" in an earlier post . . . there are a few game elements like runepriests where I feel like I'm on the fence about whether its (1) a misfire that doesn't merit additional attention, or (2) untapped potential that just needs a little love.

I'm not saying that we should ever expect shardminds and seekers to overtake dwarves and wizards in popularity, but I think that any concept that's worth adding to the game will spark new ideas, introduce new synergies with existing material, and just otherwise merit some kind of followup.

Seems like there should be access to the druid Beast Form powers and feats, doesn't it?

Seems like some races and classes get support because they are popular, and are popular because they get support. There are a few concepts out there which are so underdeveloped that it's easy to dismiss them as bad ideas or false starts or lungfish, rightfully abandoned . . . but a couple of...

Between that and their ability to shrink objects, I am beginning to suspect these pixies are unrealistic.

Now I gotta pitch a Dragon article on the pixies of Athas --- "Sectaurs" type little bastards made out of chitin, arcane magic, and angry.

Yep. They dart in like hummingbirds, unleash pixie steel, and dart back out again. Stay up close and you get squashed, and even if the Big Folk miss, there's backdrafts that can knock you right out of the air. Countless generations of adaptation in the magic-rich Feywild give some unique...

I SAID GOOD DAY! Nice work, WotC.

Except Hammer of Gond isn't the name of a magic weapon --- it's a feat granting proficiency with warhammer, and the ability to use same as a thrown weapon. Nice feat. I like having a smart guy / leader type who occasionally solves a problem by throwing a hammer at it.

Except the flavor text of "Hammer of Gond" suggests the thrown hammer returns, while the crunch omits that feature.

Nice article, and I'd like to see more of the same. Swordmages of Eberron would be awesome --- smart, rapier-wielding duelists.

Gotcha. Well, it's a matter of degrees, I suppose --- I feel like the current system of racial abilities + feats + racial utility powers does a pretty good job of making the elves elfy and the dwarfs dwarfy, but I could see the argument for something more. Pixies will need to push the...

Various racial benefits and feats give each of these races an edge in some aspect of melee combat without making one race stand out as The Best. If you start giving a goliath +4 Strength, Large weapons, reach, etc. . . . that's not just different, it's better, and 3rd Edition ECL ended up being...