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I'm not saying that you can use "Bahamut, the Platinum Dragon, King of Dragons and related to Tiamat" freely. While not trademarked or copyrighted, that's brand identity. But Bahamut, a dragon, is feasible (but trickier), as the concept has been universally used, especially in many animes and...

Not even. For instance, Bahamut is a cosmic whale in mythology, but his role as a dragon god is also public domain, due to Final Fantasy and anime. Same with Tiamat.

Yes, it would change something: it will become a valid argument to criticise 4e. Because, up until now, it is a completely baseless argument that people like to throw up as an insult ("it looks like a videogame, so it's bad"), when we know it is not an actual truth. So, yes, at least it would...

But it can be a goose. Not because people believe something, that something is real.

Sure, but that was not the focus. The focus of the time was still on the adventure thing, and the art of the editions of the time (Oe to 2e for the books, 3e and 4e for the movies) reflected that. It's during 5e that we are seeing a shift in the "tone" of the art, to reflect in the "wholesome"...

Usually, younger players /DMs take ideas from these animes for character concepts and world-building, and WotC has been paying attention. For instance, the "wholesome" art we have in the 2024 5e, were you just find people hanging out instead of being adventuring (that was the thing of the older...

Well, is not a secret that D&D took inspiration from animes such as Record of Loddoss War, and (in the case of 5e), the current isekai animes. Which is a full circle, because those animes in turn were inspired by D&D lol.

According to Bill Slavicsek, he didn't finish the first draft of the book when they cancelled it. So, all of his ideas were used as the basis of the Mark of Nerath novel, as I mentioned before. I also have the theory that the few material created for the Gazetteer was later repurposed for...

Bill Slavicsek said that most of the new elements he had created for the Gazetteer were used as the setting for the Mark of Nerath novel. That I have already read and included in the aforementioned guide. I'm going to check it and then put it on my drive, to share it here 😉

Official? Sadly, nope. But if you are interested, I can provide you my thoroughly researched guide I made for my personal campaign years ago.

But the goggles of night aren't part of the features gained through class advancement. They are supposed to be gained by purchasing them or finding them as loot. Denying them to a human character is way different to deny a wizard to get his School of Magic feature at level 3 (in 5e rules, I...

It's called Papers & Paychecks.

Wasn't this explained as that Common originated from Sigil? IIRC, nope, the book doesn't mention any real world god. Real world pantheons are listed in the Appendix B of the 2014 PHB, however.

This sounds like a really bad excuse for a really bad rule, lol As written, the rule is more about to punish new players for being new players.

But it is still a kingdom!