Recent content by Misanthrope Prime

The updated lore for Calimshan has genies as warlords ruling the deserts. Think of these paladins kind of like dragon sorcerors' templars

By contrast, the purple dragon knight appeared in the Forgotten Realms setting book back in 2015 as a subclass, but they provided the name banneret as an alternative name for alternative settings. Now they've chosen that to be the name for the subclass by default. At the very least, they could...

I remember this part of Old Yeller

Tolkien was the world's most well-showered crustpunk anarchist so in a weird way this makes sense, but it's still really weird to modern political sensibilities. https://firstthings.com/anarcho-monarchism/

Aren't the bagginses landed gentry who don't actually work and make rental income from their lands, which is why they can take all the time off to adventure with dwarves and wizards? Frodo and Bilbo are not common, they're extremely bourgeois. Tolkien may see an independently wealthy landowner...

For this reason I prefer "I'm not gonna sugarcoat it" to "not gonna lie"

I see we were probably talking past each other. Anyone with working eyes and a functional knowledge of the English language who has had the misfortune to read the dragonlance books would be offended by the kender, so they should be ejected from the canon for that reason. Rather than being...

Genies are elemental beings. Druidic magic comes at least partially from the elemental planes. These paladins are far more druidic/primal than arcane, and no more lore breaking than an oath of the ancients.

If bodybuilders with dwarfism start saying that halflings with 20 strengths are offensive to them, we should listen. Until then, it's a fantasy scenario. Native Americans having their culture stolen from them and commodified, and mixed race people being fetishized, are both real, extant...

Technically what is being sold is propaganda. All art is propaganda, and if you think the art you like isn't, that's because you've spent the last few decades of your life drinking the Kool aid

Since dragonlance is all about balance, the only way to bring balance to the universe is for the next series of dragonlance to be fedora tipping reddit coded stories about atheism

NGL I thought this was gonna be about Alexandrian remixes of 5e adventures. A figure you may wanna look into is Hermes Trismegistus, a figure conflated with Thoth, Hermes, Enoch and Idris. A religious scholar I follow recently did a pretty indepth video on him.

I don't think there's anything new here that we didn't know from UA or convention previews. I wonder if "Silver Marches" exists solely as a geographical term or if it's still considered a polity (much like "Italy" which used to refer to a region before becoming unified).

Remember that Mormon theology, among other things, features gods who live on alien planets and that Native Americans are secretly white Jews who turned brown due to their wickedness, and it's stated that if Natives convert to Mormonism, it's said that they will turn white and blonde-haired.