Recent content by Levistus's_Leviathan

This is a complicated question, and shows the difficulty of applying real world scientific terms and ideas to fantasy settings. Are Owlbears, Pegasi, Hippogriffs, and Griffons mammals or birds? Are Chimeras mammals or reptiles? Do Druids classify animals in different categories like this? Since...

Dogwhistles show not only bigotry, but cowardice.

Everyone that thinks that this is “ruins the original art” is a 100% a bigot. Everyone that thinks it’s disrespectful to the artist or that Elmore should have been consulted has a poor understanding of how art interpretation works. It does not matter if the artist intended for the adventurer to...

They already did make mistakes. IMO, that was probably referencing the Bigby’s AI art

The origins of the Goblinoid races in D&D has always been a mystery. Maglubiyet is a conqueror god that assimilates defeated gods and races. IMO, I think it makes sense for the backstory of Goblinoids to be the Feywild. Not to mention that Goblins in D&D are not accurate to Tolkien either, as...

I typically do this with setting-specific monsters that I want to transplant into different settings. I did this a lot in my Eberron campaign. When I wanted to use Exandria’s Core Spawn Worm in Eberron, I said that they were purple worms that ate Khyber Dragonshards and were mutated by the...

This has happened to like, what, 3-4 types of creatures? Elves, Goblinoids, and Changelings? That’s it, right? I think it makes sense for all of them to be connected to Fey in D&D, they were in folklore. There have been a few new fey races (Fairies, Harengon), but most 5e races and monsters have...

There’s also only been a single 5e book for the Feywild and Fey are one of the least common creature types.

The events of Descent into Avernus are vaguely mentioned in Baldur’s Gate 3

Arkham the Cruel is in Avernus with Vecna’s hand.

As a DM, I’d definitely find a way to remedy this problem if it comes up in the campaign. But I wish WotC had done a better job of designing race and subclass abilities to avoid this issue and reward thematic synergy.

It depends on the setting, but typically, they’re a mix of mercenaries and what Indiana Jones movies think archaeologists are. Most D&D settings have “ruins from a long-gone great empire,” and adventures are the ones brave and skilled enough to delve into them. But, again, it depends on the...

This is a problem that applies to other races, too. Goblin Rogues get the redundancy of Nimble Escape giving most of what Cunning Action gives. There are subclasses that give resistance to damage types that could be redundant based on which race you chose, so you're incentivized to choose a race...

One of my home brew settings, the Devils won the Blood War and conquered the rest of the Outer Planes. The ended up being cut off from the Inner Planes by a magical barrier, and some extraplanar refugees fled to the Inner Planes. The Elemental Planes (Shadowfell, Feywild, Elemental planes)...

IIRC, 4e applied it to all of the settings. Even Eberron’s planes were organized into World Axis style groupings and the Shadowfell and Feywild were added to Dark Sun.