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    Dungeons & Dragons Releases New Unearthed Arcana Subclasses, Strongly Hinting at Dark Sun

    The invention of the printing press hasn't stopped people from reinventing and reinterpreting stories in the decades and centuries after they were first printed, nor has it stopped stories from utterly disappearing when they fall out of the public consciousness to the point that people stop...
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    Dungeons & Dragons Releases New Unearthed Arcana Subclasses, Strongly Hinting at Dark Sun

    I am by no means opposed to trying new things, exploring new worlds, telling new stories, etc., but we are a species of storytellers and we've been creating new/updated takes on old stories and gradually figuring out how/if to work them into the collective consciousness for millennia. We may be...
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    Dungeons & Dragons Releases New Unearthed Arcana Subclasses, Strongly Hinting at Dark Sun

    Well that settles that. Glad they seem to be willing to take crack at Dark Sun again. I always felt that the lack of robust support for psionics was the biggest barrier to a 5e Dark Sun revival, so between various existing psionic options migrating to the core PHB and the recent Psion playtest...
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    D&D 5E (2024) Next issue of Game Informer will have details on the two upcoming Forgotten Realms books

    Not Cranium Rats - no exposed brain, and they're mostly a planar/Sigil thing. Moon Rats, perhaps? I don't recall much about them, but I think they were in one of the 3e/3.5e Monster Manuals...
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    D&D 5E (2024) Next issue of Game Informer will have details on the two upcoming Forgotten Realms books

    Let me rephrase: I think there's a decent market for D&D to put out an East Asian inspired setting book, more in-depth than the micro-settings from Radiant Citadel. The fact that Kara-Tur exists as the Forgotten Realms' East Asia analogue and they've continued to reference it as such...
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    D&D 5E (2024) Next issue of Game Informer will have details on the two upcoming Forgotten Realms books

    They just released an original Japanese language adventure called Oni's Right Hand with pregen characters that explicitly come from Kara-Tur (though the adventure itself is set in Phadalin, as I understand it). Not conclusive, by any means, but if they're going to use Kara-Tur as a place of...
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    Dhampir and Other Species To Be Included in Astarion's Book of Hungers

    https://marketplace.dndbeyond.com/BB-ForgottenRealms-25/DB4GTNRLM
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    Purple Dragon Knight Retooled as Banneret in D&D's Heroes of Faerun Book

    The new PDK subclass didn't make it in, but that doesn't necessarily mean that the new take on the Purple Dragon Knights as an in-universe organization was tossed out as well - at the very least, some of the art @GarrettKP posted from GenCon seems to indicate that they're still working in...
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    Purple Dragon Knight Retooled as Banneret in D&D's Heroes of Faerun Book

    I've never been much of an FR-lore enthusiast, so I have no real issue with a new version of the Purple Dragon Knights as a knightly order that form pacts with amethyst dragons. My biggest complaint against the playtest PDK was always that it was way too locked into a very specific type of...
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    D&D 5E (2024) Next issue of Game Informer will have details on the two upcoming Forgotten Realms books

    Hope they take another crack at a "Dragonriding Knight" subclass at some point. I've never been an FR-lore aficionado, so my biggest complaint about the playtest PDK subclass was that it was too locked into one very specific type of dragon, when I feel it should have been more customizable, a...
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    Critical Role's The Mighty Nein Reveals First Look, Season 1 to Air on November 19th

    Jester is an absolute menace... I've missed her. Been too long since I've watched Campaign 2.
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    Eberron: Forge of the Artificer Delayed Until December

    Frustrating, but understandable.
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    Wizards of the Coast Reveals Revised Eberron Species Details

    It's been repeatedly noted that Khoravar can and do reproduce amongst themselves, specifically because the ability to do so helps to reinforce their distinct cultural identity, but I don't think it's ever been said that Jhor'guntaal cannot do the same. The cultural context they tend to arise in...
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    Wizards of the Coast Reveals Revised Eberron Species Details

    Lorewise, Jhor'guntaal (Eberron "half-orcs") are ostensibly still a thing - they make up the bulk of House Tharashk, one of the dragonmarked houses. The only real difference between them and Khoravar is that Khoravar are known to have their own majority Khoravar communities and distinct cultural...
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    D&D Debuts Playtest for Psion Class

    Pretty sure they have something lined up for GenCon, so end of July/start of August at the latest.
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