D&D (2024) I have a Monster Manual. AMA!

[FitzTheRuke]

Can you give a quick glance to the lore sections for Lizardfolk and Aarokocra? Is there any explanation for why they got changed?

Sure. It actually makes more sense when you read it.

For lizardfolk, the conversion guide suggests that a regular "lizardfolk" would use the "scout" stablock (and, I presume, any other humanoid NPC block, for various humanoid-lizardfolk.

The MM page for Lizardfolk explicitly states that these are Lizardfolk who live in jungles suffused with primal magic or who have undergone rites to enhance themselves with a connection to the elemental plane of earth, and are the Lizardfolk Sovereign and Lizardfolk Geomancer statblock.

For Aarokocra, it seems more simply that they originate on the Elemental Plane of Air. The statblock is for an Aeromancer, and a more "regular" Aarokocra Skirmisher, but both are elementals as listed.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

Do you use mayonnaise or butter for your grilled cheese?

Wait people use mayonnaise instead of butter or margarine for Grilled Cheese?!?! That's weird, never heard of that before.

 

[FitzTheRuke]

Aren't half-dragons still in the game?

They are, but they are literally magical fusions and not "breeds" of anything. Half-ogres' lore often implied... bad stuff, no matter how you look at it, frankly.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

Any changes to Angel lore or mechanics that are notable please?

 

[Parmandur]

I'm with you on the Lizardfolk. It's a mighty stretch.

But I find it one that I can really, very easily ignore for my games, so I'm not remotely bothered by it beyond a "Ha! Whatever, WotC! Pshaw!" - sort of response.

Here's the lore on the Inner Planes from the DMG, page 174:

"At their inner edges, where they are conceptually closest to the Material Planez the four Elemental Planes and the four Para-Elemental Planes resemble places on the Material Plane. The four elements mingle together as the do on the Material Plane, forming land, sea, and sky. But the dominant element strongly influences the environment, altering this locations' fundamental qualities."

"The inhabitants of this inner ring include aarakocra, azers, dragon turtles, gargoyles, ge kes, lizardfolk, Memphis, salamanders, and xorn. Some originated on the Material Plane and all can travel to the Msterial Plane (if they have access to the magic required) and survive there."

 

[Parmandur]

Aren't half-dragons still in the game?

@FitzTheRuke what does the Half-Dragon lore say about parentage?

 

[FitzTheRuke]

Wait people use mayonnaise instead of butter or margarine for Grilled Cheese?!?! That's weird, never heard of that before.

I don't know how or why you'd use it instead of butter, but it's certainly possible to use it as well as. I make a very delicious "apple-melt" that uses butter on one side of each slice (the side that goes down in the frying pan), and mayo (thin-coat!) on the inside. Then cheese, grilled apple-slices (grill them while you're buttering the bread), cheese again, bread again. Flip regularly so that the butter browns and you toast the bread, but don't burn the bread, until the cheese starts to leak out the sides. Slice diagonal. Eat. Try it!

 

[Chaltab]

They are, but they are literally magical fusions and not "breeds" of anything. Half-ogres' lore often implied... bad stuff, no matter how you look at it, frankly.

I mean obviously the stuff about human mothers usually not surviving the birth of an Ogrillon are gross and shouldn't be there.

But I just find it fascinating that people have been saying 'we want more nuance and options for having mixed heritage player characters' and WOTC's response is to not only removed the two that existed in the core rules but also change the lore about non-PC hybrid creatures.

 

[FitzTheRuke]

@FitzTheRuke what does the Half-Dragon lore say about parentage?

Magical fusion created by dragons. It does say "as servants", so it's not without its problematic issues, but not quite the same as "half-orcs" or "half-ogres" in traditional assault-based lore.

 

[beta-ray]

I don't know how or why you'd use it instead of butter, but it's certainly possible to use it as well as. I make a very delicious "apple-melt" that uses butter on one side of each slice (the side that goes down in the frying pan), and mayo (thin-coat!) on the inside. Then cheese, grilled apple-slices (grill them while you're buttering the bread), cheese again, bread again. Flip regularly so that the butter browns and you toast the bread, but don't burn the bread, until the cheese starts to leak out the sides. Slice diagonal. Eat. Try it!

This concludes this episode of Dungeon Meshi