Recent content by Mecheon

Societies tend towards lawful, though. Chaotic characters tend to end up the lone wolves away from that society, so as the chaotic evil person amasses power? They're going to break away from that society through one reason or another. Be it banditry or something else And yeah, they need to be...

Are they even going to care? Like, when it comes to 'smart chaotic evil', my brain goes to Zenos from FFXIV who is a complicated character but most likely falls into that 'chaotic evil' side of things. And he's not a dumb character. He's someone raised to end up ruling an empire, something he...

It is fulfilling a different niche. Though I do think there's room for an avian/generic flier archetype there as a hypothetical Rodan-alike would do different things to a Mothra-alike. Likewise a few gaps as Behemoth is a bit set on being what it is and not, say, some sort of armored fighter...

I'd hardly really call this a debunk. If these issues happened just by themselves, folks would have posted them all over the place. Its not like people haven't dragged Starfield enough, its not a popular game and people love to dunk on it for any reason they can. If this was a raw issue with...

There is exactly 0% evidence of this, and given pulp fantasy is basically dead and buried in the modern day, I think its a bit of a leap too far for that one. D&D's at its most popular when its about heroes doing heroic things, so the game responds accordingly. The death kneel for pulp in D&D...

Look, if the writer of Complete Book of Elves had to make an apology about it, well. Let's just say there's a lot more 2E books I think authors should be apologising for that have worse crimes than sucking up to elves like in that book Some 3.5e ones, too. You can't just rename poisons and say...

Elder Scrolls orcs are just elves. Also khajiit and elves have a complicated relationship where they're possibly related, what with historically bosmer being able to have many forms (the ooze and all), and the Ohmes and Ohmes-raht having obvious elf-ish features There's also the sea elves, the...

All the Baldurs Gate 3 characters are basically new, and based on the amount of fanart and fanfiction, they absolutely do resonate with folks.

FR gave us Baldurs Gate and Dritzz. There's no way you're losing the actual star power of 'characters that non D&D fans might recognise'. FR has to stay

Greyhawk's on the chopping block. Sorry Greyhawk fans, but FR kind of does its job better, and FR has more star power. The setting that gave us Baldurs Gate 3 is not going anywhere

No? That's just saying its high tech compared to most D&D worlds, and its in a city. There is no urban fantasy tropes in all that at all. Just because it takes place in a city, doesn't mean its urban fantasy Once again, ask yourself: Does it sound like Twilight? Or Buffy? Or Anita Blake's core...

The first sentence of the Wikipedia article is "Urban fantasy is a subgenre of fantasy, placing supernatural elements in a contemporary urban-affected setting". That is precisely what it says. Vampire and the other World of Darkness stuff is Urban Fantasy. The only time D&D was ever urban...

Urban Fantasy is a very specific niche that tends to involve secret groups in the modern day, particularly in the romance side, with those beings living secretly. Tends to go into romance. Vampire is the obvious example when it comes to RPGs Ravnica is a giant city-wide Standard Fantasy City...

If someone asks for an Urban Fantasy recommendation and you give them Ravnica or Sigil, though, they're perfectly in the right to go "the hell are you on about, that's not urban fantasy?". Because, no, Urban Fantasy is a very specific term and set of tropes, and D&D has only really touched it...

System Mastery is my go-to favourite. Just uh, warning, they're not the biggest fans of D&D. But if you like to hear about obscure TTRPGs, they can't be beat I respect your opinion but, let's be brutally honest here: Does anyone actually remember the draconic pantheon except for Tiamat...