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Arkhan the Cruel. Several NPC adversaries are Dragonborn in the Tyranny of Dragons modules. As for tieflings, Avarice from Rime of the...

There is a feedback loop between mechanics and flavor. That said. 5e 2024 makes an effort toward core rules that are setting neutral...

Again, Exandria does this, especially Wildemount. It’s why I think it’s the most “5e” of extant WOTC published stuff.

There are Tiefling and Dragonborn NPCs all the time in the Campaign books? Some people loudly complained about that with Saltmarsh, for...

So every edition you throw out all the lore and start fresh? That's IP suicide! I understand you hate D&D, but you're asking an...

It’s not irrelevant. There was no real reason given in the lore of the settings for why demihumans had these limitations. It was simply...

When Greyhawk was designed, there was no cavalier or barbarian classes. Thus adding them to Greyhawk required a change of design intent...

Damn! And didn't they do some deus ex machina to keep Drizz't's friends alive for the various time jumps in the FR lore between source...

I mean, a new one literally is juat dropping, it is an ongoing series. And the people I know who read ot are in their 20s or 30s...

@Reynard you asked about Exandria, there was a thread about that recently. I think it's the most 5e / current play culture WOTC official...

Great read and said way better than I did earlier. I have no doubt that Exandria will continue to be played by D&D players for decades...

Fair point.

KoDP and its successor games Six Ages are set in the world of Glorantha (and are awesome), but they are not video game adaptions of...

It does beg the question: did Greyhawk not have dwarven wizards because that was an intrinsic part of the setting or was it because that...

But what is a setting supposed to say about the existence of dwarf wizards when the original pretense of there NOT being dwarf wizards...