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I generally based most of my ideas off of 2e and ideas formed from Planescape (where Githzerai were one of 3 PC races that debuted in the original Boxed Set along with Bariaur and Tieflings) including Planescape Torment. There's a reference to something that I remember about the Athasian...

My view on what Magic is, has been shaped by Mage: the Ascension long ago, and I have adjusted those ideas to fit into D&D. So Psionics is Magic or Science is Magic are not unusual ideas to me.

I'm guessing it'll have the 2024 revisions of Green Flame Blade and Booming Blade in that book. Don't know if there'll be any changes to those. Unless they want to do something about the meta around Booming Blade where somehow everyone white-rooms into the target always moves and always takes...

Back in the 2e Tales of the Infinite Staircase, I had the idea that the Wind Dukes of Aaqa were behind the Iron Shadow (an infection of law that drains away creativity) that was causing all those problems.

They aren't going to be updated that much from Monsters of the Multiverse which was developed around the same time that the 2024 core books were. They already addressed why Goblin PCs are Humanoids and not Fey when they were discussing the MM, so it definitely is a case of them maintaining that...

You're missing the point, the 2024 PHB is making the point that the Fiendish ancestor or influence is more important than any mortal ancestry a Tiefling might have.

Tieflings are once again also not Devil only. As the entry goes on about Demons, Yugoloths, Night Hags, Succubi and more.

Also reconfirmed it again looking in the 2024 PHB, nowhere in the Tiefling entry is the word "Human" ever used. And Aasimar has the words "any mortal community"

2024 has gone back to Tieflings are Fiend mixed with something else. While not explicitly stated, the Iconic Bard in the art is a Tiefling of Elven ancestry who's possibly related to the Iconic Elven Sorcerer, while the Celestial Warlock art depicts an Aasimar of Dwarven ancestry.

My theory is that Half-Orc was mostly chosen, because players wanted to play Orcs but weren't allowed to play Orcs because they weren't in the PHB. And it's worse because they never really tried to make Half-Orcs look too distinct from Orcs unless they emphasized certain features of Orcs. I...

3.5e Tome of Magic had some interesting concepts but generally failed mechanically for the Truenamer. I was thinking more about the 2e Tome of Magic, which had some new spells and I guess what you could say were subclasses in 2e with the introduction of Wild Magic and Elemental schools of magic.

This could be for a book like Tome of Magic

My initial thoughts on these subclasses: Arcana Domain Cleric They seem to be all about undoing and countering magic, even more so with the free castings on dispel magic. Though I'll note it it's with Cure Wounds and not Healing Word that it can be used with. They don't get fireball, but being...

Aleister Crowley, though I don't see him being that villainous, maybe he's someone the PCs would meet and he keeps them guessing on what his intentions are, sometimes helpful and sometimes antagonistic.

I certainly hope they're filtering out certain things that aren't helpful, or least trying to get a better context of the results.