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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nivenus" data-source="post: 4392957" data-attributes="member: 71756">If I recall correctly (and the Player's Handbook backs me up under their entry) eladrin aren't really a new race. It's just that wood elves and wild elves became a separate race (4e elves) from moon elves and sun elves (4e eladrin). So they're not really the same thing as the angelic, fey celestials of earlier Forgotten Realms.As for the other issues I agree fluff is good but part of what Wizards is trying to do is attract new players to D&D. While I personally would enjoy it I can't help but wonder if they'll spend a great deal of time explaining minor changes with fluff when new players couldn't care less.One thing that does have me concerned a little bit is something I noticed in the Living FR preview - that players in the East Rift gain Deep Speech as a bonus language. Deep Speech, however, is a Point of Light langauge, not a FR one (the equivalent would be Undercommon). On the one hand it'd be alright if it was just another name for Undercommon (an easy enough explanation) but I'd be really peeved if for instance they got rid of all the various goblinoid languages and just lumped them under "Giant."It makes play simpler, yes. But I don't really see why there has to be only a dozen languages in the entire world.</blockquote>