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They're wanting to move animal-type monsters with human-like levels of sapience out of the beast category, and are using the Beastlands as one of the likely origins for such creatures.

Never been much of a Forgotten Realms fan (though I'm always happy to mine it for ideas and mechanics), so I'm not going to get into the discussion on whether this version of the Purple Dragon Knight should use that name or not, but I do think that if we're going to get a dragonrider fighter...

To be sure, I do the same - I'm a massive Planescape fan with a particular interest in the Nine Hells/Baator, a planar region that has major aspects of its lore upended and/or thrown out with pretty much every edition change. Gestures at the Dark Eight. Just saying that when those lore changes...

In theory, sure. Just saying that it's giving me 4e "Succubi are devils now" vibes, where they make a sweeping change to the baseline lore of a creature and then have to spend the rest of the edition bending over backwards to explain that "Succubi in the Forgotten Realms WERE demons in the...

To each their own, obviously, but as an Eberron fan, this shift towards gnolls being defined as ravenous fiends rather than a "people" and goblins as being magical fey tricksters causes some frustrations. What of the gnolls of the Znir Pact? Why are the Dhakaani goblins, an infamously...

Sigh And now that's going on the "Villains I will now only be able to imagine speaking with the voice of..." list, right next to Kaius III of Eberron and Phillip J. Fry (if you know, you know). The Doomguard on Ash used to be based out of Citadel Cavitius, but were kicked out when Vecna took...

At work at the moment, otherwise I'd break out my copy of Inner Planes and look it up, but the only ones that come to mind bordering the Negative Energy Plane are the four Doomguard citadels in the Negative Quasi-Elementals. I do recall four towers bordering the Positive Energy Plane in the...

Don't have too much time to comment on the overall topic at the moment, but FFXIV's Heavensward expansion had the, admittedly minor, character of Hilda Ware, who was explicitly half-Hyur (human) half-Elezen (elf) and it's been confirmed that the various peoples of the world can and do produce...

Didn't really get to watch this live, as I'm getting used to a new job on the overnight shift, but very much not surprised that we're finally getting a proper Forgotten Realms setting guide (or rather, two). SCAG was getting pretty long in the tooth, and the 50th anniversary game edition update...

Blue dragons have a burrow speed, so they can easily get deep enough under the sands/earth that their coloration isn't much of an issue. The blue of their scales isn't going to be visible when they're "land sharking" their way several feet beneath the dunes. On top of that, they also had...

Mostly comes down to the color scheme - blue, but complemented with a yellow/tan/brown underside that looks like it would help camouflage it when flying amidst dust clouds and sand storms, plus a horn that could easily pass for a jagged rock sticking out of the ground or the side of a dune while...

Positive and Negative still exist, though they don't come up often. The 2014 DMG had an image showing them as "enveloping" the rest of the cosmology from "above" and "below" respectively (see below), and in the one of the recent preview videos, in the context of talking about how healing spells...

As I understand it, custom backgrounds are confirmed for the DMG.

Mechanics are one thing - a presence in books going forward is another. Saying "just use the 2014 half-elf/orc stats" only goes so far. They could have chosen to remove the warlock class from the '24 PHB and say "just use the 2014 warlock" too, and the argument that we haven't technically lost...

It's easy to claim satisfactory reactions when they very specifically never asked a survey question about the "Pick-a-Parent" sidebar or the exclusion of dedicated "half-elf" and "half-orc" species entries - it's akin to saying they had very satisfactory reactions to their choice to not include...

Can't speak to pre-3e lore, as I've never been much of a Greyhawk lore or drow lore aficionado, and my 1e-era lore in particular is spotty at best, but WotC put out a "Drow of the Underdark" book in 3.5e that was modeled after Greyhawk lore - namely including a chapter on the city of...

I imagine it'll be covered in some way in the DMG, probably as part of a "custom species" section like we got in 2014 (where the initial versions of aasimar and eladrin debuted) to parallel the custom background section we already know is coming. Now, precisely HOW they choose to implement any...

Your character presumably has a home town/city/nation too, but you don't need those details in the PHB to "complete" your character. That's setting information that changes from table to table and campaign to campaign, not core mechanical rules that can be reasonably assumed to apply pretty much...

Third party content designed for 5e is one thing, but even if TotV is still compatible at the start, that doesn't guarantee it will remain so over time as it grows into more and more of its own thing - see Pathfinder going from basically an update to 3.5e to its own distinct system. I think...