Recent content by bedir than

The land is probably cheaper than the printing presses, institutional knowledge and distribution network.

True! Plus they all have the experience playing the game that they should be able to convert things on the fly. They've played for decades. They don't need official guidance.

It seems the Psionic "thing" in 5e is dice that power things. Soul Knife does uses there's for more than damage. Psi Warrior does too. Having the Psion do similar is a strong story echo

There really is a downside right now. It's quite political, but the downside involves threats of bombings, violent attacks, removal from the United States, being targeted by executive orders and more. Hasbro and Wizards embrace of diversity is quite risky. They're sticking with it anyway...

Except statements like "A strong party is a diverse party" and other persistent and intense pro diversity stances that Wizards has and continues to take.

When I release backgrounds and subclasses on my blog I always mention the inspirations, but usually in a section at the bottom. I may shift that to an in-line mention with links when relevant.

It's fifteen pages, but a vast majority of the content is reminding a creator what is new. There are also revisions, name changes and format changes to track. https://media.dndbeyond.com/compendium-images/srd/guide/converting-to-srd-5.2.1.pdf

I know this is an expected statement, but it feels as if we don't get it very often.

No. There are several spells not available to Wizards, a few not available to any caster, as well as Feats that enable non-spell Psion stories.

You are not familiar with the story David and Goliath? Or Critical Role? Did you click on the TV Tropes links provided and read about the goliath and similar archetypes there? The resources are plentiful.

Notably you can even play games at a library. I can watch TV at a library. At a museum I can see the original paintings and experience them. There's nothing about this project that can't be done at a facility that has an explicit purpose of caretaking. Doing that would result in no money for...

For me beer & pretzels is about table attitude more than campaign style. It can be done with a strict linear railroad or a big open sandbox. It's about being casual, joking, light in stress.

In the past D&D listed the Appendix N in the back. It was a large bundle of inspiring materials, absent from direct connections to various archetypes or concepts. Within Dragon magazine and various other essays official creators with TSR/WotC might share a more specific set of inspirations...

Here's more reading on a narrower trope for the goliath https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/ProudWarriorRaceGuy/Literature

The appendix N (inspirations) for the Goliath are plentiful though. There's everything Critical Role has done, which is 1,000s of hours of lore, multiple books, multiple seasons of a TV show. There's WotC's previous content. There's the dude the Goliath is named after. Wizards doesn't assume...