D&D 5E Recent Errata clarifications

[Seramus]

I mean, they eat humans, so how bad can they really be?
/s

It's a service to the community, really!

 

[Staffan]

But... Athasian Halflings are the Goodest and most Lawfully halflings of all!

I smell some sarcasm, but the OG Dark Sun boxed set portrayed an interesting duality to them. They were really strongly community-minded within their own tribes, and went to great length to settle inter-tribal differences peacefully, and harming (and especially eating) other halflings was a major taboo. It was only non-halfling intruders to their lands they would eat. And any halfling that was part of such an intrusion was expected to be a prisoner of some sort which should be rescued, not harmed (regardless of how much they'd protest they were there of their own free will – they're probably mind-controlled or something).

That kind of thing is pretty hard to fit into the D&D alignment system.

 

[Marandahir]

Thanks, I got confused.

I feel like our forum conversations are actively being called out, for better or worse.

FYI, I agree with this beneath the hood.

 

[pukunui]

I feel like our forum conversations are actively being called out, for better or worse.

Probably also the reddit discussions. Haven’t seen a lot of chatter on Twitter but maybe there too?

 

[Bill Zebub]

WAIT!!! He said mind flayers tend to be evil. That means not all of them are evil.

My world is crashing down on me. 40 of the best years of my life given to this hobby, and they turn and stab me in the back.

What’s next, druids in metal armor?

 

[Malmuria]

Probably also the reddit discussions. Haven’t seen a lot of chatter on Twitter but maybe there too?

Oh, there’s plenty of Twitter conversations about this…

 

[Enevhar Aldarion]

WAIT!!! He said mind flayers tend to be evil. That means not all of them are evil.

My world is crashing down on me. 40 of the best years of my life given to this hobby, and they turn and stab me in the back.

You never met a vegetarian Mind Flayer? Or the ones that survive on Impossible Brains™?

But on a serious note, if some vampires, depending on setting, can survive on the blood of non-sentient creatures, why can't some Mind Flayers do the same with non-sentient brains? Those rare few could at least be played a Neutral.

 

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

WAIT!!! He said mind flayers tend to be evil. That means not all of them are evil.

My world is crashing down on me. 40 of the best years of my life given to this hobby, and they turn and stab me in the back.

What’s next, druids in metal armor?

I mean, with the Gnome Ceremorphs from Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden (which you can see as my new-ish profile picture), it's kind of canon now that Mind Flayers don't have to always be evil.

 

[Kurotowa]

WAIT!!! He said mind flayers tend to be evil. That means not all of them are evil.

I am totally down for the rare mind flayer on the run from the elder brains who's forsworn eating sentient brains and subsists on a specially cultivated magical fungus instead. Most don't because the fungus is like a cheap soy-meat brain substitute that's almost unpalatable, but the option exists for ones who want to take a hard principled stand and co-exist with humanoids. Of course, the ones that do aren't exactly popular. Humanoids find them disturbingly alien even without the threat of eating brains, and most still have a relaxed attitude about telepathic intrusion and mind control. Many of these lone exiles end up in shadowy lines of work, either for criminal organizations or government spy agencies.

 

[Marandahir]

I am totally down for the rare mind flayer on the run from the elder brains who's forsworn eating sentient brains and subsists on a specially cultivated magical fungus instead. Most don't because the fungus is like a cheap soy-meat brain substitute that's almost unpalatable, but the option exists for ones who want to take a hard principled stand and co-exist with humanoids. Of course, the ones that do aren't exactly popular. Humanoids find them disturbingly alien even without the threat of eating brains, and most still have a relaxed attitude about telepathic intrusion and mind control. Many of these lone exiles end up in shadowy lines of work, either for criminal organizations or government spy agencies.

Wasn't there like one Yeerk in Animorphs that was like that and swore off possessing people's brains and enslaving them? I think they eventually gave it morphing power and then forced it to be trapped in the body of a whale or something lest that morphing ability was used against it. So the one good Yeerk could live free.

It would be like that.