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I remember a while back in a thread I made a post, which I thought was obvious hyperbole, about how to appease the grognards that hate all types of change and updates in the new books, WotC should just reprint the old books with updated mechanics. No new art, no new options, no new lore, no new...

“The youths are playing the game wrong and driving the hobby off the cliff.” This is like the epitome of a terrible gatekeeping opinion.

I typically prefer the Eberron approach where there's a focus on faith and practice over the gods themselves. Having gods that objectively exist and can be contacted with relative ease makes religion much less interesting, IMO. In my setting, Sophian Ennoism is the most popular religion of the...

I have not watched Star Trek (yet), so I’m not that familiar with the Borg. And I gave a couple small mentions of the Cybermen towards the end, but they do probably deserve a section.

- Lord of the Rings, Return of the King, J.R.R. Tolkien There is a common theme in a lot of stories where evil is "sterile," incapable of creating, only able to corrupt and destroy. This trope is especially common in fantasy media, probably partially because of Tolkien. But the idea that evil...

Do you think that most players value realism so much? Do you think that most players love linguistics and would enjoy modeling the D&D language system off of the Middle Ages?

And an article about an optional rule in a 3rd party game somehow demonstrates that the average player is a linguistics fan and always finds realistic simulationism super cool and fun? If I spent 10 minutes at my table stopping the game in the middle of DMing to explain how the Elvish term...

It’s not about being a linguistic nerd. I’m a linguistic nerd, too. I could talk for hours about how interesting it is that Cent and Hundred are actually cognates, and how in languages descended from Proto-Indo-European, some languages that have a “k” sound instead have an “h” sound in their...

Actually, that your original post is correct. I confused Octavian with Julius.

Edit: Actually, I was wrong. Octavian was emperor.

Oh no! WotC made something in the Forgotten Realms cooler than it used to be! Quick, everyone needs to yell at them until they stop!

Maybe for the one person at the table that's interested in linguistics. Everyone else is going to find it annoying and unsatisfying that they can't talk to the shopkeeper two towns over.

As someone that is interested in linguistics, especially etymology and how different languages are related to each other, I think that realistically simulating how languages work would be mostly detrimental to the experience of playing a game. Imagine if every every few days the characters are...

Yeah, that Pit Fiend is way better than the one in the book.

There are werebats in Dungeon of the Mad Mage. Just of one variety, though.

This art is from The Wild Beyond the Witchlight.