D&D (2024) DMG Lore Glossary Preview

[TravDoc42]

I'm loving this art for the Prince of Frost!!

 

[TravDoc42]

Kyuss is also satisfyingly nauseating!

 

[Kobold Avenger]

How come no one realizes that Kyuss became a Queen of the Stone Age?

 

[Selas]

-Elder Evils are a broad categorization

I mean, it's the D&D term for Elder Beings after the big brawl in the 90's between TSR and Chaosyum for the Deities & Demigods supplement.

 

[Kurotowa]

Sure. But do you have any idea what that might mean, other than some "fun math"?

Does it have to have a meaning, beyond "Math is Power"? In the really old magical systems, important numbers have weight, and squaring a number is multiplying it by itself. That's like standing between two mirrors, or going Super Saiyan. It brings out a number's inner power. That's why you get "seventh son of a seventh son" type deals.

I can totally see mordons doing number magic based on the power of math and not any sort of "meaning" to the numbers.

 

[TravDoc42]

I hope we see more stat blocks for archfey, maybe in the Monster Manual! I think it'd be a good idea for WoTC to put out a supplement of archfey stat blocks, with big names like the Queen of Air and Darkness!

 

[Gorck]

I hope we see more stat blocks for archfey, maybe in the Monster Manual! I think it'd be a good idea for WoTC to put out a supplement of archfey stat blocks, with big names like the Queen of Air and Darkness!

I like that idea a lot. Maybe we could get stat blocks for Oberon, Titania, and Queen Mab (along with everyone else mentioned in The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke).

 

[Parmandur]

I hope we see more stat blocks for archfey, maybe in the Monster Manual! I think it'd be a good idea for WoTC to put out a supplement of archfey stat blocks, with big names like the Queen of Air and Darkness!

One of the stated goals of the new MM is to provide viable options for all q4 Creature types across all CR: so some new Fey to fill the gaps seems plausible.

 

[Jfdlsjfd]

Maybe toss a single background in to support that, then? Even if a modern Earthling is a farmer on Earth, they're going to be quite different from one who grew up in a fantasy world.

Let's hope he's taken care of by a power entity then, because dropping a regular kid ranting about wifi, iPhone and TV in the Realms is a sure way to get into an asylum. Or worse, they drop a kid with an engineering degree and Faerun starts to get an industrial revolution (MC Planck's world of prime remembrance...)

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Let's hope he's taken care of by a power entity then, because dropping a regular kid ranting about wifi, iPhone and TV in the Realms is a sure way to get into an asylum.

I feel like folks in the Forgotten Realms would be fine with someone waving around strange (non-functional) artifacts and claiming to come from another world.

"Second one this week, I reckon."

Or worse, they drop a kid with an engineering degree and Faerun starts to get an industrial revolution (MC Planck's world of prime remembrance...)

Of all the Realms Shaking Events, this is the one that'll do the joint in.