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There was no process before because everything they designed to be playable was given its own bespoke mechanics. Want to play an elf? Pick an elf. Want to play a dwarf? Pick a dwarf. Want to play a Khoravar? Pick a "half-elf". Want to play a lupinal? Er, we don't have "monster PC" mechanics in...

I meant complaints about the Van Richten's version. Curse of Strahd opened the door to getting a proper 5e Ravenloft setting revival, even if many old-school Ravenloft are rather vocally unhappy with what ultimately came of it. I happen to be quite happy with Van Richten's myself, though I...

I mean...

For all the complaints 5e Ravenloft gets from old-school Ravenloft fans, Curse of Strahd's success is what opened the door to us getting Van Richten's down the road - I'd even argue it may well have kickstarted the entire "classic settings revival" effort that got us 5e Spelljammer, Dragonlance...

Pulling in something 3rd party is all fine and good - I'm all for having multiple varied takes on the same general set of themes and cultural influences - but it still leaves the Forgotten Realms with an enormous East Asia analog that hasn't been touched in decades yet is still a canonical part...

Because the original version of Kara-Tur was flawed, culturally insensitive in a lot of ways, and explicitly an incongruous low-magic subsetting within the VERY high magic Forgotten Realms, yet hasn't been updated in three (or is it four?) editions despite still being actively acknowledged as a...

Because as shocking as this may be to hear, I care about more than just the mechanics. I care about how those mechanics are derived and I care about the story that process tells. The story that "pick-a-parent" tells is: "Oh, you want to play a Khoravar? Well, that's basically just an elf...

Because the implications of "pick-a-parent", as I see it, have the (almost certainly unintended) effect of promoting a view of mixed ancestry characters that diminishes and marginalizes them, and that is not the message I think the core game system should be sending, especially with the...

Don't think we can't work with it. :p https://keith-baker.com/dm-eberron-spelljammer/

It varies. Keith Baker has floated a number of different options, from only being affected by the moon associated with Lamannia (the plane of "the wilds") or the particular moon that was full when they first became infected with lycanthropy, to suddenly being affected by every full moon (and...

Ah yes, the incredible mechanical advantage of giving up most of a human or elf's species traits for CHECKS NOTES darkvision, fey ancestry, and a floating skill proficiency. Truly overpowered. Power gamers are going to power game - you can't stop them. And system mastery is not mutually...

You can only cram so much into that drop-down tab... I'd have to double check, but I'm willing to bet quite a bit that it doesn't actually show every individual book they have on Beyond.

Eberron's 13 12 moons are almost too much - probably why Keith Baker recommends linking lycanthropy's full moon trigger to only one of them unless the Wild Heart's influence is on the rise.

For what it's worth: Not sure when it went into effect, but the sources page now has a visible "In Library" tag on everything you own. Or most, at least - the Rrakkma adventure doesn't seem to have it, even though I own it, but I'm not sure that's purchasable on Beyond anymore for whatever...

I must have missed the memo where they said Eberron was no longer being supported. Is it in the chapter of the new Vecna book where the PCs visit the Mournland? Or perhaps the upcoming book on the worlds of D&D with some 30 pages dedicated to covering the setting?

Might be my freshly released copy of Pathfinder 2e's Tian Xia World Guide talking, but honestly, I'd be all for an update to Kara-Tur. It'd be a lot of work, to be sure, but I think it's long overdue.

Love the look, with the exception of the wings. They either need to be big enough to look like they could actually function as wings - within a reasonable allowance for suspension of disbelief, of course - or they should not be there at all, in my opinion.

Sure. Put a species trait "mix-and-match" system with "half-elf"/Khoravar and "half-orc"/Jhor'guntaal as examples in the '24 DMG the same way the '14 DMG had a section for custom race creation with aasimar and eladrin as examples, and that's all I need. I've said as much before. I'd just like...