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All very true. There's fundamentally three ways of dealing with the situation when you have a legacy setting that doesn't line up with modern D&Ds class availability assumptions etc. All of them have downsides. First is you can lean hard into the old canon. Classes X and Y are banned...

Yeah, Ravenloft was turned inside out and upside down much more comprehensively than Krynn in the 5e reinvention. Other than bits of Barovia, pretty much the only identifiable bits of old Ravenloft are some of the names. Krynn was handled with a much lighter touch - although the decision to...

There's plenty of examples. Most of them are in the history or background lore, or are just unspoken as the base assumptions of D&D have changed over time. And to be honest, most of them don't bother me very much, although everyone has a different annoyance threshold and different hot buttons...

Yeah, that was my impression too, though I’m no rules detail expert. Pact of the Blade moving to first level and letting you use Cha for melee attacks is way overdue and makes non-hexblade blade pact warlocks at least possible, but bards using a generic ‘arcane’ spell list is something I deeply...

Massive difference between 'not challenging the DM' vs 'being defensive and hostile' which is what i was talking about. I'm fine with being challenged. If the players say 'hey, what about X?' in disageement to a ruling, I'll quite often say 'oh yeah, you're right'. And I always give a new...

As a DM, I don't want to have to deal with people in my game who are going to be defensively rules-lawyering me all the time and are assuming at every turn that I'm there to screw their PCs over. D&D is a game for DMs too and that's just not my idea of a fun time. There's piles of players out...

The use of the word 'narrative' in the post i was responding to unavoidably implies a story, and death saves were being argued against on narrative grounds. And I'll note that the title of this post is all about the fiction. Like i said, if you don't see D&D as a story-telling medium (i...

To be extremely pedantic I'd argue there's a whole lot of narrative justification for this, because the PCs are the main characters of the story, and in heroic/action fantasy stories main characters ARE more immune to death than anyone else while faceless mooks go down when hit and don't get up...

A book of food history i read argued that it was the British period of isolation in the Napoleonic wars that largely set the trend (and then WWII rationing did their cuisine no favours by homogenising everything in the name of central distribution and standardisation so a lot of local...

Brave and the Bold even had an episode that directly talked about this in-universe. It was awesome.

It’s only one small data point, but in the ‘looking for D&D game’ Facebook group that runs in my city, there’s been three or four posts in the last week by people looking to join a d&d game and talking about how playing BG3 was one of the reasons they wanted to try tabletop. By comparison, there...

I think their experiences with those (dreadful) books are one of the reasons they won’t try it again. I suspect the slight aversion to going too deep into ickiness in the modern market is why we’re getting a giant book ahead/instead of an undead book or a fiend book, too.

This has been the case as long as there's been D&D though, hasn't it? Just thinking back to AD&D purely on the sexual mores stuff - the original Dragonlance trilogy had Goldmoon and Riverwind scrupulously sleeping apart until they were married while promiscuity was one of the reasons you were...

The sheer viciousness of the Australian civil wars driven by the Vegemite-Promite schism make the horror of the Emu Wars fade into insignificance, but these conflicts are little-known outside Australian shores... We got kinda lucky food-wise down here, as far as ex-British colonies go. At...

Prometheus and Covenant - the first half of both movies, in particular, could have been the core of a really interesting new sci-fi series, but the insistence on tying to the Alien films in a horribly hamhanded way ruined them both and cheapened the franchise they were trying to parasitise...

Do you have humans (Maori-inspired or otherwise) in addition to your curated races? The way it reads, your genasi and dragonborn seem more likely to live around the more elementally inclined, glacier/volcanic regions, and the others could plausibly be arboreal. Consider perhaps making the...

Back when i was a teenager, we had some retired Irish relatives visit our place in Australia. Mum made spaghetti with meat sauce. It had garlic in it. They literally couldn't finish it because it was too spicy.

To be fair, that's true for pretty much every war movie ever from Saving Private Ryan down. Casting directors want soldiers to look like hard-faced manly man grizzled veterans rather than pimply and often-terrified 19yos.

The director's cut was a mixed bag. Including all of the pre-infestation stuff with Newt's family etc was a mistake and detracted from the tension of the scene when the marines finally arrived at the colony, but the scenes with Ripley's daughter and the sentry guns definitely made the movie...

You do you. There’s plenty of people on here who liked it, don’t let us grumpy jerks harsh your vibe. I was excited about the Spelljammer release too, preordered it and everything. I probably would have been much less disappointed if I had been looking forward to it less.