That's a very destructive attitude to have. It's a social game and if the way you have fun is by making everyone else feel their character is inferior to yours, that's not cool. Wanting to be optimal and make optimal choices is fine, though. If all you want is to be optimal, well everyone at...
It's irrelevant as these books were in the works long before they left. Books don't go through the process so quickly that they happened afterwards. We probably won't know until mid to late next year and see those books.
Why would you have to scramble to re-align? It really doesn't matter if something in the future says one evil Dragonborn company, because in your setting it has three and two are not evil. DMs are not beholden to what is written in a setting and never have been. If the PCs in my game destroy...
Or, like is fact, the Realms history is so vague and full of holes I could write historical impacts for several dozen new races covering thousands of years without contradicting anything.
No retroactively changing any history. No existing with no impact.
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His dad and I played D&D together for many years.
While driving my son to school yesterday, one of the department stores was advertising their in store Cyber Monday sales on shoes, pants and other apparel items. I just looked back at him and said that they didn't seem to understand the concept of Cyber Monday.
Slots are much easier. I have 3 1st level slots, and 5 1st level spells to pick from. With points I have to worry about using too many here and not there. How many do I have to save for future encounters. The temptation is large to use a lot more lower level utility spells out of combat...