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Simple solution, Drow that live on the surface long enough become used to sunlight. Much like the new way of looking at race is designed to show, these generic tropes are not necessarily meant to hinder the fun of player characters. This is supposed to be something the average Drow deals with...

"A stock dividend is a dividend payment to shareholders that is made in shares rather than as cash. ... For example, a company might issue a stock dividend of 5%, which will require it to issue 0.05 shares for every share owned by existing shareholders, so the owner of 100 shares would receive...

I'm not saying you are wrong, to be fair, I am just suggesting that it is your perspective. I don't personally see them as samey or very similar in tone. It just depends on where you draw your lines, and how nuanced you get. One of the things I love about the MCU movies, for example, is that...

I think the reason it may come off that way to some is that you point out a very specific set of aesthetic options that exist in a large pool of choices, many of which are very blood and mud still. For example, if you compare the art, flavor, and options between Strathaven, Icewind Dale...

Can you elaborate on the shape you see it taking?

I honestly don't see any difference in the material with regard to being more "safe, kid friendly" or having a different direction than it always has. Could someone elaborate on these things? The main difference I see in content is that the game, and to some extent the player base, has grown...

Have you published anything on this? If so, could you please drop a citation? I'm a doctoral student using exploratory learning in conjunction with simulation games to assess decision making in common pool resource dilemmas, and I would love to have another source of real world gaming...

My guess is that they are going to try to design setting books that use their bottom up design ethic. In the past they would deliver a book that gave you TONS of info about governments, gods, history, etc. 90% of which the players would never have any relationship with. The new method has been...

Much like Wizards has discovered (and why there design philosophy shifted to bottom up), top down world features have little to do with the players. This often results in low buy in. After all, why should we care about things we may never see or interact with? Start from the beginning. A town...

I see no reason why they couldn't do both. A sorcerer comes to the college to learn about their mystic dragon (or whatever) heritage. A person with no magic comes to the college hoping that they can use their knowledge to grant them powers through rituals or magical experiments. A person may...

Use this as an opportunity to grow your own knowledge base. If they do not have the same cultural references as you, learn the references they do have. What are their favorite bands, movies, shows, books, hobbies, actors, historical events, etc.? Use this as an opportunity to learn more about...

I would go with Dark Places and Demogorgons as the system. A mash-up version of the Buffyverse and Stranger Things. Possibly a meta 5E D&D campaign thrown in. Monster of the week meets teen slice of life, lots of mysteries to unravel.

Sage Advice disagrees https://www.sageadvice.eu/if-i-cast-rope-trick-and-intentionally-throw-a-bag-of-holding-into-it-can-i-get-to-the-astral-plane/ Justin Sherwin 🇺🇸 @mikemearls If I cast rope trick and intentionally throw a bag of holding into it, can I get to the Astral Plane? Mike Mearls...

"Placing a bag of holding inside an extradimensional space created by a handy haversack, portable hole, or similar item instantly destroys both items and opens a gate to the Astral Plane. The gate originates where the one item was placed inside the other. Any creature within 10 feet of the gate...

Just my opinion but I feel like all the Defender tools are already there. You can use Protection to defend someone, reach weapons to extend your area, and action surge to control the area. Anything more begins to take away from the idea of thinking tactically and playing a defender in my...

An updated Spelljammer, something similar to Starfinder but for 5E.

I'd say it depends on the type of tattoo and it's purpose. For a basic tattoo I would use the hireling rules, just like any scribe etc. For a tattoo that is involved in raising renown or performing sacred rites I would use the rules in downtime activities. For a magic tattoo see Tasha's.

In 3.5 D&D I had a half-ogre barbarian with a vow of poverty. That character is still talked about today for the insane things he could do without magic. He once carried an entire ship down a mountain. Melee can still do amazing things, it just takes planning.

I'm not so sure this should be dismissed as irrelevant at the gaming table, especially in light of newer takes on race as lineage and seeing monsters who have distinct cultures as something other than monsters. The argument about eating babies is an extreme one (though still a possible...

Like most things, it depends. Some players like risk while others do not. This is why session zeros are important, to learn the overall player likes/dislikes and set everyone's expectations at the right place. It is also important with character deaths when they do occur to know how the player...