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The hypothetical people who say, "That's not how the Forgotten Realms is," are overlooking the fact that Forgotten Realms supplements provide full guidance for incorporating all the classes from the 3e psionics system (and many of the rules from earlier psionics systems) into the world. Most...

Well, this is a thread about glasses now, so that seems apropos. :P

Incidentally, the statement in the above quote is the best argument a DM can make for me taking an interest in their setting. I tend to show people the same amount of consideration they're willing to show me. No more, no less.

Now use that fancy dictionary of yours to look up the word "causation," because nothing you've said about active and passive voice provides any evidence of causation. That's what's missing from your argument. As I've already said in slightly different words, I accept everything you've said...

I don't find your argument persuasive because you haven't yet provided any evidence of causation. You've made three observations about linguistic choices in 5e: it describes player actions using active voice; it describes DM actions using passive voice; and it's designers keep using the phrase...

We've spent around 100 pages arguing back and forth about glasses. We're so far past ridiculous, we can't even see it in the rear-view mirror.

In the The Horde boxed set, there's a passage that strongly implies elves and spirit folk are related: "To elves, spirit folk, and any of their blood, the water causes painful burning and rashes, almost as if they were allergic." There's also an obscure Forgotten Realms novel that seems to...

Several posters have said this wizard gives MTG vibes. Several other posters have pointed out that that Strixhaven is a D&D setting. Which got me thinking: How fast would the D&D corner of the internet explode if the sample setting in the DMG was Dominaria?

You're right about that. And I certainly can't blame them for worrying. On the other hand, I do think WotC's being overly conservative. If an occasional special edition reprint of the PHB is a viable product which doesn't compete with the baseline PHB, there should be a way to release a special...

Which is weird, because WotC's other game is explicitly designed to accommodate modes of play that exclude large amounts of available options.

I'd be thrilled if WotC released a setting where some classes and species in the PHB were outright replaced by new options. (I hear rumors Dark Sun was supposed to be that way, but the design decision got overruled.) But I suspect WotC is too worried about alienating people by restricting their...

Can a setting book have a "different take" on a core species if the core book doesn't commit to any take on that species in the first place? Why print a Schrodinger's elf which has no lore instead of, say, a feat for humans that are statuesque and long-lived due to their mastery of magic and...

In fairness to the Forgotten Realms, Corellon isn't native to that setting. The first elves to arrive on Toril worshipped the gods of the Fey. They weren't even aware of Corellon's existence at the time. A population of Corellon's followers migrated to the Realms centuries later (after...

Tangent: How exactly is Corellon chaotic good? He's cursed an entire species of his own creation multiple times just because he's having a fight with his ex; he hangs out with a demigod whose entire portfolio is genocide; and he's demolished a populated continent in the Forgotten Realms just to...

"Someone is wrong on the Internet. They must be corrected. Assemble the mech army."

Ranger. It's always ranger.

Yes, they are both rules terms used to categorize creatures. "Humanoid" is a creature type and "dragonborn" is a tag which can be added to a creature type to provide additional categorization. (Types and tags are both discussed in the "Type" section of the Monster Manual.) To see a rule where...

The Humanoid creature type didn't exist in D&D until many years after Dragonlance was created, so by your logic, calling Krynn a world where Humanoids are incorporated from the ground up is a purely semantic argument.

Future proofing them so they can use dragonborn-specific feats, magic items, subclasses, or whatever else gets printed in future supplements without needing to print draconian-specific versions of those options. Providing new DMs with an example of a D&D setting which incorporates a type of...

Well, DMs can always "fudge it" to say draconians use the Dragonborn Traits in the 2014 PHB, but that would technically be a house rule. The Draconians sidebar explicitly states draconians have different traits than the Dragonborn Traits in the 2014 PHB.