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Some of the 5.24 species get that already, with spells or features that unlock at different levels (usually getting them all by 5th level).

The problem is that if you start gating important elements of a species behind feats (or something similar) then people will declare it...

Honestly, i think WotC reacted to what it was being told. People didn't want the PDK tied to a dragon. They preferred the idea of old...

It's a side effect of D&D's long history with homebrewing that lots of people think they have a better (or at least different) way of...

Pretty much. And you have to admit, if your goal is to create a small group of lifelong fans, the 2e design style worked. Not every...

I just want to point out how absolutely right you are, to the point that some setting's rules felt more like a 3pp d20 game than an...

I think it's also a matter of why they are not happy. For example, I have no problem with the conceptual changes they made in...

no one claimed that people who are unhappy with the products do not exist. The question was how many of them there are, and you have no...

As the first real supplement (ignoring the few species and spells from the Elemental Evil Players Guide) it was very useful. It gave...

I think you are wrong here. I think that people who like old DS who will like new DS are very common. It's just that people who are...

I mean... you're not wrong, but if you take a step back you can totally see where Crawford was coming from. The 2e ethos of setting...

Speaking as someone who has been a long time fan of Ravenloft going back to the 2e box set, and loved the updates from the Van Richten's...

There are nuggets you can mine from it, but mechanically it's very outdated. Every species (except ghostwise halfling) was redone in...

I wonder how they are going to handle elf lineages being baked into the elf species...

Just no way they are going to say "the Giant-kin folk in the PHB cannot be used in this Setting, here is a completely different Species...