Recent content by Marandahir

Not quite this, but see Lorwyn-Shadowmoor (which will get an upcoming D&D setting booklet of some sort and is coming back to MTG next year). The setting is based on Celtic mythology elements and thus doesn't lack elves & dwarves and halflings, but it very specifically chose to omit Humans...

I was introduced to both early on by loving Rankin-Bass/Studio Topcraft (aka proto-Studio Ghibli)'s Flight of Dragons and their contemporary adaptations of both The Hobbit and The Return of the King (and The Last Unicorn to complete the quartet of these films, though that one is neither Tolkien...

Great point and I was completely forgetting this. I've played in quite a few pre-releases at my FLGS and I should have thought about that. I was reacting to the topic of cannabilization of Magic audience via MTGArena, but it's very true that physical is still required for MOST EDH/Commander play...

No spoilers please. I haven't seen the show yet, and others have already said as much as well.

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This is in part because of vastly different monetization schemata for the two most profitable Hasbro IPs. They've tried to monetize D&D on a booster-pack model in the past - Fortune Cards and D&D Miniatures come to mind. But In 5e, randomized booster Miniatures are gone, because it's just too...

And now I've read the thread, and do not feel cheated. I am glad it was bought back.

The problem with that is that race is a social construct, and even in real life, species is a construct that does not actually fit the "cannot interbreed" clause. Many are species that "do not normally interbreed." And then you have Oaks, where all the White/Swamp White/Chestnut/Swamp...

Game Informer is still a magazine? GameStop stopped sending them in the mail and I never cancelled my sub. I feel cheated!

Plus, propping up competition to Amazon (AND to their own platform on DDB no less) is actually pro-consumer, because healthy competition leads to lower prices and more accessibility to the products in the long run.

Disagreed. Nothing was promised, releases get pulled all the time for various reasons. This is a lifeline to Mom and Pop shops that otherwise would have been screwed as everyone would have gotten the D&D Beyond version instead.

Mythic Odysseys of Theros, too.

The statblocks aren't reprinted in the text of this book. The beginning of each adventure tells you to use the MM and bookmark the pages of certain monsters that will appear, or else to bookmark the monsters in D&D Beyond. So the problem becomes if there's a monster or two that were new to the...

There's an SRD v5.1-> v5.2.1 Conversion Guide on D&D Beyond, which should cover cases like these. https://www.dndbeyond.com/srd Though I guess if we're talking about the 13 monsters that appear on the "entirely new" list, they don't say what the closest v.5.1 Monster was, because it's not a...

What makes a God a God and not something else? How is Asmodeus a God and an Arch-Devil? Is Orcus a God named Tenebrous? Were Moradin and Corellon et al mortal beings in the First World who became Gods? Or are Gods a species of Celestial just with nigh-omnipotent power? There aren't right or...