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

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...

So hypothetically, people would be happier with 5e having Innistrad instead of Ravenloft, Tarkir instead of Dragonlance, Dominaria...

How many similar counterexamples can be supplied, however? Tailoring mechanics for a given Setting is as old as RPGs, but Eberron is...

Honestly, D&D has too many settings as it stands. Adding more will make that worse. Because fans want their favorite settings "in print"...

I actually think 5e has its own setting. Kind of. It’s just an extremely broad meta-setting, in which all the various D&D (and some MTG)...

But that loops us back to the original problem Mearls is trying to fix: one shot fight ending spells. Both hold person/monster and...

Less that we can't imagine what it is like, but our imaginations are still framed in what we understand as humans. Take an elf. A...

Hey,, I'm agreeing with you. I think the fact D&D species are all funny hats is acceptable because I really think that playing a truly...

Both settings turn halflings into terrifying monsters.

I pointed out later on the example of warforged how we can take an absolutely alien life form and still impress upon it certain notions...

I assume it's because they have enough bonuses in resisting all those biological needs and environmental hazards as is. At a certain...

I think, on a purely meta design level, the most interesting species in D&D is warforged. They are not biological. They have no...

Daggerheart uses ancestry

Well yes, biology shouldn't have any affect on what kind of person you are. Your intelligence, aptitudes, interests, gender role, or...