Recent content by DrJawaPhD

Blanket answer applicable to this entire thread: No it has not.

Why not? That's a far better backstory than most players I've seen. That would fit perfectly fine into any world setting I've run or played in I'm starting to think the only problem that exists here is lack of imagination from a few people on this forum

They just keep homebrewing their own setting just like they already do and absolutely nothing changes, because you can't somehow stop DMs from creating their own settings. For whatever my experience is worth, my estimate would be 90% of the audience The problem being discussed here is...

Completely agree. Players will care about setting lore as their character starts to experience it in the game, and not before. If they cared about worldbuilding lore, they'd be the DM not the players

Speaking for myself here, checking my most recent campaign Lore Primer it was 7 pages long, 2337 words. My expectation is that most players will read precisely Zero words, while others will skim sections, and the rare oddball may actually read the whole thing. Why bother writing it? Because...

Yes there are artificers in Faerun. As noted above, the Deryan's Homunculi spell is named after an Artificer from Faerun who is shown in the Faerun book and was featured in multiple WotC social media posts

Tasha's had 4th level Summon Construct, which wouldn't be legal at most tables since it was reprinted in the 2024 PHB, but also it was actually listed in the new Eberron book as an Artificer spell so no issues there. The 3rd level spell Conjure Constructs is what should presumably be listed...

Picture caption: "DERYAN KAYA SUMONS A HORDE OF CONSTRUCTS TO FIGHT OFF A BLUE DRAGON" Book text: Artificers can cast neither the Conjure Constructs spell (which is the one which would summon a "horde" of constructs), nor the Deryan's Helpful Homunculi spell named after the Artificer in the...

It's not really "at odds" though, you can easily have a highly detailed setting and just not be a stickler for making sure that every PC concept fits perfectly into the DM's perfectly curated vision. Most of those characters I listed were not "comic relief", they were serious characters played...

I already responded once to this quote but it got me thinking of some of the far more goofy characters that our table has seen show up in the past couple years without causing any issue in the campaign. We've had a group playing Mario/Luigi/Peach, a group playing various Pokemons (I forget...

A few people on an internet forum having a complaint about something that can easily be addressed by simply communicating expectations to the people at your table does not make it an actual problem that should be addressed by changing an entire game design that is loved by millions of people.

Yeah don't get me wrong, I actually would love to see a "standard 5e setting" that WotC supports with lore and adventure arcs and such. I don't think it would solve any of the "problems" being discussed in this thread (which aren't actually problems in my opinion), but I do think it would be...

It's more like the greatest strength is that each table can decide for themselves whether this is ok. That would be perfectly fine at my table, and I haven't yet played with any DM who was controlling enough about the setting to disallow such things, but it's also completely acceptable to put...

Those games all have a tiny fraction of the player base that DnD 5e has. I bet they would all love it if DnD abandoned one of it's biggest strengths by consolidating everything down to one setting* *Not that WotC could even do this if they wanted to, they tried to stop third parties from...

Since when has any internet forum ever strove for consensus? Closest thing to a consensus you're ever going to see is everyone agreeing to disagree