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Sorry, I was reading into the public distribution more. Yes, a personally created adventure for personal use would probably be legally fine, even if the company did actually decide to sue you for it. But a privately distributed adventure could still be ruled illegal by a court if the company...

From the perspective of a non-believer, I don't know what it would mean for occultism to be authentic. From my perspective, and the (wildly differing) perspective of the Satanic Panic believers, the distinction between a spell coded in GW-BASIC and one used in the 12th century is one of time...

I don't know. Personally, I've picked up a few volumes of historical magical theory and related, and of all the stuff in my youth, I can't see anything besides D&D that lead me that way. English Magical and Scientific Poems to 1700 sits on my shelf because I might find something for a D&D...

Given that I note you've ignored my explanation why dwarves without wizards would survive just fine and why it doesn't matter anyway, I think the feeling is mutual.

If you assume it makes sense for DMs ban any race they want, no matter how common, and it makes no sense for a DM to ban any race-class combination they want, no matter how absurdly rare, then sure. I don't share that assumption.

PCs are atypical, or so I hear. Again, the LotR are the example here, of where people came together literally only because of Gandalf.

I've explained how there's nothing unreasonable about dwarves surviving without arcane magic; I've explained how D&D worlds don't typically hold up in that sense; I've explained that people frequently play in worlds that don't hold up. Why should I bother repeating myself?

What do you mean by "allowed"? It is not in general legal to make copies or derivative works of something without a clear exception. Most companies are strongly against you photocopying a work for each of your friends, for example. They can't stop you unless they know about it, but there's...

Most D&D worlds are atypical.

Or elves just have the dexterity and magical control to do this, whereas a human, no matter how well trained, could never do it. The problem is that feels like it could be true in the LotR, but D&D (5) elves have a +2 to dexterity and can't be put to sleep, which just doesn't feel like they're...

That's your opinion. In reality, many a butcher or baker left their lifeblood on some WWI or WWII battlefield, because people do what they have to. Moreover, it is a fact that in Dungeon Crawl Classics, PCs begin their careers as butchers, bakers and candlestick makers forced into adventure...

There's no guarantee of that; DCC makes a big example of how all PCs are random villagers, zero-level butchers, bakers, and candlestick makers. In the current Pathfinder game I'm in, all the PCs are in the same class of graduates from an adventurer's college. At the start of the Pathfinder AP...

Then your standards of "well-constructed world" are a bit higher than strikes me as feasible for D&D. I mentioned LotR, and I'll go back to Krynn, whose savants were only of a marginalized evil subrace of dwarves. Frankly, there are a lot of things in Krynn to question, like steel pieces and the...

Why should a PC not be beholden to what is normal for the world? There's a lot of games where you get random race or class, or random stats which limit choices of race or class. There may be a few games where you can play anything, but D&D and friends are not one of them; the options are quite...

Why? I see it part of making the world, and having to follow a few restrictions should help adapt players to the world. If dwarves don't cast spells, save the idea of a dwarf wizard for another campaign. Especially in those cases; you might have to wait a while for a campaign where your...

Is there any reason to have human playable characters at all? I'm not sure why anyone would ever play a human. I mean seriously, you could give no mechanic differences to races at all and many of us would still play non-humans, regularly if not exclusively. I don't see any reason why an elvish...

If "forbidden combinations" are features of the world, that's not true. If you forbid dwarf wizards because dwarves can't do arcane magic, then dwarf NPCs shouldn't be wizards; if it just happens that nobody plays a dwarf wizard, dwarf wizards could be dominant in the arcane world.

I've said for my next campaign that the old races (elves, dwarves, orcs and kobolds) can't be clerics or paladins (champions, in PF2 terms). I think it gives a part of the setting; these races predate the gods (all of whom ascended) and can't themselves ascend, or even gain power from worship. I...

To make clear my position: a D&D world would realistically kill virtually all adventuring parties, as sooner or later they'd run into something they couldn't defeat and they couldn't retreat from. For a group of PCs to survive to high levels requires a lot of stacking of the deck towards them...

D&D Beyond has more than a page of dragons of CR 3 or less. I think you've overestimating how much the players know about anything; in D&D 3 and derived versions, any CR 1/2 humanoid could have 20 levels of a class. The only reason they think they can take anything is because it's in the...