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I don't get your point. Whether it's you or someone else that adds details to a world, you're still adding details to enhance immersion. Once again, it's obvious that if you tailor a world to fit your needs, that's going to be more immersive than a world created by someone else. On a side note...

To me this simply means that the FR canon is much larger than the Eberron Canon, but Eberron published material is still based on a certain baseline canon in order for it to be internally coherent.

I think that what you call baseline narrative is actually canon. Canon is a bunch of info about a world that is considered to be the default for that world. It doesn't need to be super-detailed, it can also be rather vague. The concept behind canon is intended to provide the designers of a...

That doesn't prove anything, tho: you're comparing a world you tailored for your characters to an established setting that isn't tailored for your characters. Imagine if your made up world had the scope and detail of such a setting, it would certainly feel more alive and rich, because it would...

By this logic, lets just avoid giving any info on worlds altogether, because any statement from WotC might cause confusion. Don't fool yourself, when someone reads an official D&D product and gains info from it, they're going to assume that it's the default, i.e. canon, not some random...

Stupid gods don't really exist. Even the most reckless among them, going by their stats, have INT and WIS scores far above any mortal, and uber-geniuses aren't going to commit stupid mistakes like exposing themselves to be isolated and cut down. Even if a god was isolated from their allies and...

Mortals can't pull it off, though, except in extremely rare and niche situations (like the Time of Troubles). And yes, it is a power problem, because there are many evil gods, and they aren't going down easily. In the collective effort that I mentioned above (the Dawn Cataclysm), many goodly...

They tried multiple times. There was even a collective effort once, which ended *very* badly.

That's not true. Certain gods actually go out of their way to help their followers. I don't like many gods, and I certainly don't like the Wall, but there are Torilian gods who really care about people (deities like Ilmater or Eilistraee are known to be very compassionate and to directly help...

But the format (arena, best of 3e, roleplaying kept at minimum) seems to be geared towards hardcore strategy people, not towards people who enjoy goofiness, or roleplaying, or narrative, so this is confusing at best to me.

Yeah, but the players of Critical Role are popular and entertaining because of the campaigns that they have played, their characters, their acting, their jokes (and their being farily well known voice actors). This seems to be teams of people with a lot of optimization knowledge for D&D 5e...

I don't understand this. Without a strong narrative, acting, or at least some comicalness, D&D is not really entertaining to watch. It's not even that good for people who are interested in tactics, strategy, and the likes because D&D (even more so 5e with bonded accuracy) is mostly about...

I saw that Qilué Veladorn appears in the Yawning Portal Inn poster. Given that, and given that about 2 years ago, one of Ed Greenwood's novels introduced a new group of drow followers of Eilistraee in the city (sponsored by the Harpers), is there any mention of them in the book (probably in the...

I allow multiclassing if it makes sense lore-wise and world-wise. For example, a Cleric/Warlock is fine, as long as the warlock patron is a servant or an ally of you deity, and if you can come up with a story to justify it. There could also be the whole "an evil entity is trying to claim the...

No god is actually new. All the Seldarine deities that have been added were pulled out of some dragon mags issues, or gods that had been killed or merged in the ancient history of the Multiverse and that have now returned (like Zandilar), they're not really new. In any case, a single book...

I wouldn't call 50$ for 3-4 gods "good value". Then again, perhaps my views are rather niche. I'm not even that much of an old timer (I found D&D in late 2011 or early 2012, can't remember--if we exclude PC RPGs), and yet, back when I started, I tried to get the old book over the new ones for...

Ok, but each deity has indeed its set of values, common rituals, common goals that especially their clerics strive to achieve, and duties of the clergy (once again, to avoid misunderstandings, I don't mean preaching to the massess). The worship of a given deity is drastically different from that...

True, that's why I said that they dedicate most of their energy and faith to 1 deity, not that they don't recognize other gods. You can be dedicated to something without having to refuse everything else.

How is this in contrast with what I said? Plus, since we were talking clerics, generally speaking, D&D clerics do indeed dedicate most of their energies and faith to 1 deity (and although clerics of a pantheon exist, the default assumption is that a cleric is dedicated to one deity). In the...

In the Realms, there are people who are worshipers of a certain deity first, even though they still pay homage to all deities. In any case, when I talked about the Mystran faith, I was referring to her clergy. In the Realms, clerics do, in fact, put their deity above others when it comes to...