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But in prior editions you could in fact construct more realistic or low fantasy settings by simply choosing from the best resources and...

I know Rust monsters and flumphs are not playable species. Tortles are exotic in the sense that they are rarely being played, just...

eh, they are still exotic and did not show up in almost anything until the Tortle Package for 5e. Just because a bad idea is old does...

oh well, I tell it how I see it, no need to defend or condemn everything 2014 or 2024, both are far from perfect ;) some might, you...

If you complain about X on boards like this and other people's responses are "Do Y instead"... you just have to deal with that. If that...

I agree with this. I agree with this too. In the example that originally started this tangent - a person ignoring the warrior attacking...

Every year there’s a couple of games with 0 votes, which means that somebody cared enough to nominate them but not actually vote for them!

they certainly retread a path created in 2e, in a similar way to Hollywood reboots. They are more ‘inspired by’ than imitations. As to...

not sure why that is a problem to admit, do you expect everyone to either love 2024 or mindlessly defend 2014 as the ‘perfect edition’...

nothing whatsoever, well maybe my idea of how good they are at their job ;) Mostly that I expect them to be qualified enough to achieve...

The blog's Shadow is from 2014, which had no such table. The 2024 monsters are still in the works and will end up in his new book

can it theoretically be done, sure, but that does not mean it must be a great opportunity for him, You cannot just create low fantasy...

he has been creating supplements for what WotC is creating, not a competing product, so this is a complete change of the business model...

The nomination thread was open for a while. And, to be fair, if nobody bothered to nominate a game...it probably wasn't going to be in...

I mean, you could also (if you want) use the new Dark Sun book, but if it doesn't have enough slavery (or halflings eating people, or...