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Fey stuff is widely gaining in popularity and it wouldn't be the first thing D&D grabbed from outside sources. You can see Spelljammer was released around when anime was gaining in popularity due to it having Guyvers and Aura Battlers, for example D&D's always been moved by pop culture, and...

To drag things back from alignment Generally D&D's been pretty low with actually hostile Fey creatures. The closest have been Fomorian which, well, haven't been treated as Fey, they've always been Giants, and Hags haven't been Fey for the longest time either. More things under the Fey label...

They turned up in Warcraft once as just a 'yup, we're doing a Joust reference' series of quests, so they really just fit anywhere guys flying around on bird things can fit

I found an entire of Monster Hunter inspired creatures and just regularly use them with new names. I've also intended to drag Seekers from Ark into things once or twice, good ol' light-eating bat-squids they are and all, but haven't really had the chance

Race is the wrong term ever since Tieflings came along back in original Planescape in 1994, who are pointedly not a race. The term has been wrong for over 30 years. Generally speaking any time "Random feature table" comes out you're more "Random by-product of your history" and not a race by any...

Capybaras are very different to hamsters Also if you look at a platypus' skeleton any notion its a chimaera falls right away. They're just weirdos

We have void orcs. They're the Pale from Warlords of Draenor But they also come in a few other colours. While the mag'har are normally brown, there's a few grey examples of them due to hanging out in mountains, most notably the Blackrock clan (who also get firey red eyes in some cases) and...

The monk was never real kung fu though? Its wuxia, the fantasy stuff Real necromancy, pyromancy, geomancy doesn't exist but it doesn't mean you strip all that out from wizards, same with psionics not existing IRL but psions being popular

There's that one by Eberron's creator which is as close to official as you can get at the moment

The ninja is hardly the most unrealistic part of that given ninjas and knights existed at the same time. Frankly the actual issue you have is the lack of guns. Going around the world with a weird party is basically half of a D&D campaign and a ninja teaming up with a Chinese swordswoman, a...

"Species" is a scientific term that falls apart due to its lack of a real definition in real life, yet alone trying to use it for fantasy Plus, well, it doesn't even encapsulate most of the races. Aasimar, tieflings and genasi aren't species, for example, and yet they're treated like one Race...

Completely fair, but I got into it around 3E or so, around the period of World of Warcraft's beta. Given what a powerhouse Warcraft has been in pop culture, I suspect folks from around that same era are way more used to orcs just being a regular race

I mean, as World of Warcraft kind of showed, orcs are easily popular enough to be a core race But D&D decided to have half orc as a thing ages ago, was always a weird look, and now we got orcs proper finally.

Its certainly one, though I've always used a certain other incredibly dumb one due to the Transformers afflicted brain of mine

Yeah, the original version of the Illrigger, while pretty popular, had a lot of balance issues I haven't heard too many opinions on the updated one since, so I'm not fully aware how it was received

Yeah we had a word for this in real life. It was called 'chief deity' representing the ruling deity due to various religious reasons at the time. They weren't 'overgods' and weren't treated as a seperate class of thing like we're trying to powerscale Goku

Y'know, its funnny you bring up Disney and whatnot on this when DC actively does not use the Indian deities in it any more, despite one having played a bit of an important role in a Wonder Woman book. Like, they downright had the bants going on, you could ship it So, yeah, there isn't just a...

Then he went mask off, because it turns out people will consider folks based on their actions and will be free to re-analyse them accordingly, not just hero worship Like, you can downright track his progression from being liked to being maligned after that 2018 cave flood incident, where he...

Don't forget though, he didn't intend to buy Twitter originally. He made a whole bunch of noise and offers, but offered one that was so insanely high they went for it. He then immediately attempted to retract it but got caught in legallities over the offer, so had to go ahead and purchase it...

I mean, if you want to kill D&D forever and salt the earth so nothing can ever grow of it, I suppose that's a way to say 'cleansing'. Certainly not 'awesome' unless you're describing the way watching, say, two trains crash into one another or a dam collapsing can be awe inspiring But nah, no...