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The cartoony Gold Dragon reminds me of the Sky Fish from Dungeon Meshi.

If you haven’t heard of them, you’ll probably be interested in the Scythians’ Enarei.

Not just that, but being the exception somehow means the generalization is not valid.

"Tiny minority of players" meant "players that spend more time reading the D&D rulebooks than playing the game." Also, I don't think most players are aware of this change or would have any opinion on it if you asked them. There are far more players than DMs, and I believe most wouldn't care...

Does capitalizing important words make books less entertaining to read? Does it make it less easy to read or look at? I don't think it does. I've read several novels that capitalized important parts of the story and worldbuilding ("One Ring"). Is Lord of the Rings less enjoyable or less easy to...

No, I think you should change your opinion, because it's wrong. If you got your way, it would greatly damage my experience playing the game. When I heard you say "I read the books more than I play the game, so I think the books should be more enjoyable reads" my mind immediately went to this...

So, WotC should design game books that are tailored more to being more enjoyable reads for a tiny minority of players than actually being useful rule books? Read a novel if you want entertainment. Getting upset that the rulebooks aren’t riveting enough is a you problem. This is like complaining...

The Eastern Roman (aka “Byzantine”) Empire has been inspiring me recently. I’m making a villain based on Justinian II. The Byzantines were extremely politically unstable in ways that would easily create adventuring hooks. Greek fire flamethrowers and grenades fit well in D&D (we already have...

Yeah, I was considering giving him the Flesh to Gold spell that the tollkeeper has. Maybe “The Golden Tyrant” in Greek. Chrysturannos or something like that. Yeah, that’s an interesting idea. Do you mean using the golden prosthetics, or his cut off body parts? So, D&D Darth Vader with...

Emperor Justinian II “the Slit-Nosed” was Eastern Roman Emperor in the early Middle Ages. He’s notable because of the fact that he was emperor twice. After ruling for 10 years, he was deposed and had his nose cut off to mark him unfit to be emperor (a common practice in the Eastern Roman...

I always considered Chris Perkins, Mike Mearls, and Jeremy Crawford to be the “Big Three” of the 5e D&D design team. Of the three, Crawford will be the last one left on the team. Obviously there are others that had big roles in the development of 5e. James Wyatt is working on D&D again, right...

In my most recent session about half of the monsters I used were homebrew. None of the party is of a homebrewed race, class, or subclass, but they do use homebrew magic items. I have a ton of homebrew player options that I've made over the years, but my players are satisfied with the official...

I'd argue the only monsters it "helps" with roleplay is Demons and Devils. Those are the only monsters that are so reliant on their alignments that it actually matters to how they act. For most other monsters, like Hags or Ogres, their motivations and personalities are more complex and alignment...

Oh, I considered the empire being multi-species as being a given. Empires tend to accumulate more ethnicities as they expand. Unless the empire wiped out the other species as it expanded, it would definitely end up having several different species inside it. My point was to give some thought as...

My main question is how? How did the empire get that big? The biggest contiguous land empire in history, the Mongol Empire, didn't even conquer a full continent. How on Earth did a single empire conquer all of the oceans on the planet? Especially given the fact that oceans are 3D. You can swim...

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I would prefer if WotC spent their time making more stuff for the D&D IP instead of trying to shoehorn other IP into D&D. Partially because it’s easier to adapt other IP into Magic the Gathering cards than it is to adapt them to D&D. There are very few IPs M:tG is incapable of adapting. There...

Chess is a relatively simple game. Most people agree on the rules of Chess and play it the same way. D&D is not a simple game and people have never agreed on how to play it. There are several official versions of D&D that are not compatible with each other. D&D regularly gets expansions to lore...

I think you should reread the OP, because that is clearly not what it’s talking about.

It’s been 50 years. Of course the game is going to change. Of course new players are going to have a different playstyle. To deny that and insist that everyone must play the old, correct way is gatekeeping.