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Do the appendices list any pantheons, or any other similar lore?

My bad; I did not intend to venture too far away from the statblock element. Change of topic: art is great, as is the serpentine dragon design, but I find that inverted horn that it has on its chin bizarre. Does it serve any purpose? Is it a beard? I don’t recall it in the concept art.

It has always been RAW to change monster alignments, going back to the 2014 MM. You didn’t need MotM’s permission to do so, nor any house rule. Nonetheless, MotM still had a very strict description of the Abishai: “In all cases, abishais are fanatically loyal to Tiamat, ready to lay down their...

I’m certain that there’ll be a section in the beginning of the book stating that the alignments are mere suggestions. It makes little sense to repeat that in every statblock. The dragons were always an odd case, anyway, since their lore is color-coded. Fiends (and all outsiders, really) are a...

Thank you for the video and the explanation, tetrasodium. I entered the hobby with 3e, but I was perhaps a bit too young to play it as intended or even as written in the core books, so the description of the experience then is most appreciated. This is an excellent point. I had let slip...

I agree with Micah's post. I see no reason for a strength differential; they cast spells differently, and that's it. I haven't ignored you. I mentioned rituals before; here is such an instance: "Rituals are nice, but they are also not often part of a class fantasy, and players use them well...

I repeat my previous answer. I see no reason one should be better than the other in a whole pillar of the game. I actually think the opposite here: sitting at a table, the sorcerer will look down at his character sheet and see lots of cool features, while the wizard won't. In the past, this...

No, I meant what I wrote. But in an effort to engage in good faith, I'll consider the following: I have had relatively few sorcerers when compared to wizards in all my tables over the years. It is a less popular archetype. They always felt appropriately interesting and useful at my tables, but...

Does the sorcerer need to be better than the wizard in a whole pillar of the game? I'd say that disparities in power are especially noticeable in combat, where the initiative system slows things and everyone gets a clearer glimpse at their toolbox. It may be a self-fulfilling prophecy (most...

They were a bit worse before. Under the new rules, the difference will be quite stark. In a random high-level one-shot, I can see the Wizard player getting quite frustrated that every other caster seems to be contributing much more than he is. A swiss army knife is only good if you both know...

I would like to add the perspective of someone who almost never plays a Wizard (I almost never play anything, I'm a DM 99.9% of the time). I run games quite often: I have a couple of weekly home games, and I run additional ones in the game store and for other friends fairly frequently. I am...