All in all, after looking at the snippets of what they’ve done, changed and shown… I’m not impressed, and certainly not enough to gag down the WoTCOffRPG in order to play a sure to quickly become an unsupported and neglected world setting again.

Nah… I still have to original, I don’t see any reason to change.

Tieflings, though, eh? Hmm. I wish I remembered more about Dark Sun. Possibly I could guess as to how they’d be, uh, reinterpreted.

Of course, some races have been retrofitted- Dragonborn are Dray, Goliaths are Half-Giants, and Tieflings are… something.

I could see them fitting some of the other races in with the setting better than others. Devas and tieflings seem a bit out of place. I could see warforged as having somehow been created by some of the sorcerer-kings or some such. I don’t remember what their deal is beyond that. Weren’t they made from, like, sentient trees or something?

I’m not actually all that big on any of the previous D&D settings, so I suppose that’s why I wouldn’t have noticed a homogenizing effect. Truth be told, I only own the FR Player’s Guide because of the feats and Swordmage.

@Dave: Oh. I suppose I’d have noticed that if I’d looked closer at the characters’ powers. Thanks!

I’m sad to say that although I liked the characters in the quickstart, I’m not terribly surprised the adventure itself wasn’t great. If I had to pick one specific thing, it was probably the Thresholds and the concept of geists that really made me sit up and take notice. The sample characters are pretty good in that regard; I like the guy whose geist is the lady made from— what was it?— broken glass and pavement, who oozed blood.

I still hope to run a game! I think that’s next on my list. Possibly this won’t happen until October or even November, by which time I expect things to have settled down somewhat.

Have you played it yet?