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I saw the Amazon screening, and enjoyed it. Is this movie some sort of amazing epic that will give highbrow critics a smile? No. It's not the Lord of the Rings trilogy. But it's a fun movie. It's humorous, it has action, it's decent to good. And honestly, I think one thing that helps is that...

Speaking of Jakandor, was it part of a bigger setting? For some reason I thought it was a Greyhawk subsetting.

Canonically defiling depletes reasources insanely. Combine with that one creature that likes to destroy metal, I can see why lots of materials and resources are gone. And tons of your ideas are already in Dark Sun, as overgeek pointed out. So what makes them "changes" per se, beyond maybe...

Honestly wouldn't a number of D&D fantasy materials offer hefty protection against bullets, like adamantine or dragonhide or whatever? Yeah they're high end but even musket rounds aren't like real world modern high velocity jacketed rounds. And those could be protected against from longer...

Thinking on Dark Sun, with how bizarre its backstory could get with the halfling lifeshapers and their bio-organic tech, I think it's a shame the Green Age was so...conventional in technology & metallurgy with it being implied to be a rather typical fantasy setting. I kind of wish TSR had...

I think the sad part is, there would be people or players who would cause a tempest in a teapot via criticizing Dark Sun because of some grim theme or how harsh everything is and so on, and understandably WotC/Hasbro don't want to deal with that. Social media has actively made it easier for...

Wouldn't it be better to homebrew a Dark Sun game if you want to change its backstory that much? That way, you're not bound by any legacy issues. EDIT: Thinking on it more, why couldn't WotC simply build a 5e "like-Dark Sun" setting from the ground up? That isn't the old Dark Sun and doesn't...

One wonders how watered down it will be compared to the original. Looking at Spelljammer, that doesn't fill me with great expectations.

I doubt it would be considered "woke" no matter how much people here are trying to finangle it into that. WotC is correct that newer gamers nowadays would probably find it offensive. Someone will try to stir up outrage and claim it's pro-genocide or something. Or that it approrpriates...

Because it may offend everyone in some manner and someone on either side of the aisle will attempt to stir up controversy on social media. Honestly in retrospect, I think they're right more and more. People probably don't actually want settings like this.

Something else will be complained about or found too problematic I assume. Best to go with a safer, blander setting.

No, don't make a new sword & sandals-style setting. It's too problematic. Think just how much heat it would get today. Best to go for safer, blander settings.

I would say writing any culture as a stereotype is punching down. Especially when the stereotypes are based on misconceptions. It's deeply hypocritical to only cry about one representation, but be okay with other bad representations.

Wouldn't it be better to put it not just in FLGS but also like Walmarts or something as well?

I kind of hope authors don't get too...lazy and just always use the same WotC names/lore with all this stuff now out in the open. I like there to be some variety reflecting different settings. Because not every setting is going to be the Forgotten Realms.

So essentially what this allows is for you to use say various core D&D gods, for example, in any D&D (and maybe Pathfinder(?)) setting you make, with no fear of legal action? Like their names and everything?

No they're each using their own rope. Look closely at the beam the ropes are tied to.

So they seem to be selling toys pretty well. Is D&D really so undermonetized they need to like block everyone out with the OGL shenanigans?

Honestly hasn't Hasbro or WotC been really weird about not making more D&D merch, except to send it to influencers for free? I've come to suspect some of their claims of "undermonetization" come from the fact they never really made D&D toys for example. Hell imagine say an owlbear plushie, for...

Hasn't this kind of been a problem for a lot of WotC 5e art? Characters don't look like they're really interested in the task they're doing, or the viewpoints of the characters are really off, or spectators just look bored even when exciting magic is being thrown about, and so on? I have to...