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Human's are the DUFF in D&D - the Designated, Ugly, Fat Friend. They let everyone else look good by comparison. Joking aside, I don't think the mechanical bonuses elves get in 5E make or break them. Further, the gender flipping thing is clearly an option - players and GM may use it if they...

They could go for a modular approach, offering options people could choose from in term of a home game.

In the astral plane the ships will still act like ships, enough so for naval combat and age of sail type adventures.

I was thinking something like that - and it could be interesting if they had an item that boosted their strength to normal, human levels. It could be a bit like Ant-Man in the movies.

So how would you make Lilliputians and Brobdingnagians into PC races? Is it possible to make them into PC races? Part of my thinking on this is how the recent D&D Beyond video observed larger-than-medium creatures can create mechanical issues. That said, I think reskinning the storm giants...

Pppbbbttt! I thought of it first and you can't prove otherwise. Joking aside there is nothing to stop us from doing our own Homebrew thing.

I voted "other" because published settings always change in their implementation. They are only so proscriptive. And being changed as they are used actually at a table, they become more Homebrew than textual.

I am in the lobby of a mechanic while my car is being repaired. I am bored. So I am going to do something to amuse myself. I'm going to play a game linking different pieces of pop culture. You are invited to contribute. For example, the Primus of the plane of Mechanus is the same entity as the...

Thank you. I am working on adapting some of the settings from Gulliver's Travels. Just for the sake of novelty. No pun intended. But age of sail is the thing I'm going for.

Same here - the astral plane is basically hyperspace, allowing fast travel between distant points. There are gith, but other beasts as well.

That is... interesting. I am working on a home-brew version at the moment. Edit: I found the old setting - with crystal spheres, phlogiston, etc. - to be too complicated. I'm aiming at something simpler.

Right. Thanks. I missed that the first time. I guess it can be chalked to a mistake, like the steel predators.

I don't have a copy - and it may be a while before I get one - so I have to ask. How did Primus create the Slaadi (who are chaotic)?

Mostly I was joking. I would not want to see Earth race recreated. That would at best be pointless in terms of game mechanics (everyone has the same basic stats and bonuses) and at worst a terribly racist and sexist idea. But this is a fantasy game - there are possibilities. I would be...

This comment feels a bit meta, as the entire book works on the tacit assumption of us - the readers - taking the word of an archmage, Mordenkainen.

So, the book discusses elves, dwarves, gnomes, gith, and hundred of monsters. But does it discuss humans? I mean, so little has been established about them...

The late and much missed writer Terry Pratchett wrote about "parasite dimensions." They are not the same thing as alternate timelines or simply a parallel universe. They are usually malevolent, and home to malevolent creatures. Inside the dimension, time does not function. Locals are vulnerable...

Yes. But you know as well as I do that if there is a possible way for a PC party to blow the entire game right the hell up, they will find it. And do it. Twice, if they can.

Are you aware of any advance reviews of Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes posted anywhere? If so, is there an consensus?

In your assessment, is it worth the purchase price listed on the cover for those of us who would have to buy one?