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  1. Veltharis ap Rylix

    D&D 5E (2024) So what happened to the new and classic campaign settings? (and what's next?)

    If I recall, the Deck/Book of Many Things boxset was supposed to come out around holiday season last year, but there were some printing issues with the cards that ended up delaying the release.
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    D&D General What it means for a race to end up in the PHB, its has huge significance

    Going to be a real issue if/when they revisit Eberron in earnest, if they keep to this approach...
  3. Veltharis ap Rylix

    D&D 5E (2024) 5e Aasimar are in the Players Handbook − what should the flavor be?

    Admittedly been a bit out of the loop these past few months, so I can't really claim to know precisely what Crawford said or didn't say. It may just have taken time to parse out exactly what the feedback was telling them. They may have known that the ardling didn't make the cut fairly quickly...
  4. Veltharis ap Rylix

    D&D 5E (2024) 5e Aasimar are in the Players Handbook − what should the flavor be?

    I suspect it boils down to the same reason they tried the ardling in the first place - they wanted a celestial planetouched option in the PHB to parallel the tiefling. Player feedback redirected the ardling's core concept away from "celestial planetouched" and toward a stricter focus on their...
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    D&D 5E (2024) Greyhawk Confirmed. Tell Me Why.

    Is there no other setting where, say, a powerful mageocracy might have tried creating an army of construct soldiers to fight a war with, even if that happened so far in the distant past that only a couple of those soldiers have survived to the present day and the nation they fought for is...
  6. Veltharis ap Rylix

    D&D 5E (2024) Greyhawk Confirmed. Tell Me Why.

    And yet they reverted the high elf => eladrin change, to the point of us now having versions of both that are quite distinct from one another... Shrugs The way I see it, changing warforged to, for the sake of argument, "ironforged" would be equivalent to changing tiefling to something like...
  7. Veltharis ap Rylix

    D&D 5E (2024) Greyhawk Confirmed. Tell Me Why.

    The Warforged name is established, so I'd say keep it as primary simply for brand recognition purposes, but honestly, that's a minor issue. Not noted in the existing 5e tabaxi description(s), but as pointed out earlier in the other Greyhawk thread: Tabaxi and rakasta were always functionally...
  8. Veltharis ap Rylix

    D&D 5E (2024) Greyhawk Confirmed. Tell Me Why.

    So change the name: "Warforged, also known as [insert secondary name here] in some worlds, are a type of sentient construct that..." Done. It's no harder than recognizing that tabaxi and rakasta are essentially the same thing and don't need separate stat blocks, even if they go by different...
  9. Veltharis ap Rylix

    D&D 5E (2024) Greyhawk Confirmed. Tell Me Why.

    It's one of the reasons I'm honestly baffled they weren't included in Monsters of the Multiverse with the changeling and shifter... Kalashtar are firmed hooked into Eberron lore in a way that's hard to disentangle, but for all their Eberron-specific flavoring, the core idea of what warforged...
  10. Veltharis ap Rylix

    D&D 5E (2024) Greyhawk Confirmed. Tell Me Why.

    Honestly, just treat a warforged as a sentient type of lesser golem, which is essentially what they already are. That lets them theoretically exist anywhere that has (or once had, at least) wizards/artificers/etc. capable of creating golems and you can make them as one-of-a-kind or as...
  11. Veltharis ap Rylix

    D&D 5E (2024) Greyhawk Confirmed. Tell Me Why.

    The thing about orcs in Greyhawk, or anywhere else: You can still have orc populations that don't get along with neighboring human/elf/dwarf/etc. populations without them being definitionally evil - just give historical/political reasons for the conflict, like generations-long competition over...
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  13. Veltharis ap Rylix

    D&D 5E (2024) 5e Aasimar are in the Players Handbook − what should the flavor be?

    I'm rather fond of what Pathfinder did with their Aphorite (LN) and Ganzi (CN) planetouched, myself. My personal version of the Great Wheel imports a lot from their Great Beyond cosmology.
  14. Veltharis ap Rylix

    D&D 5E (2024) 5e Aasimar are in the Players Handbook − what should the flavor be?

    I've seen the 5e cosmology map. It's a diagram representing a conceptual framework, not a literal physical map you can use to navigate walking from one plane to another. These supposed "crossings" from the Upper Planes to the Feywild and the Lower Planes to the Shadowfell pass through the...
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  18. Veltharis ap Rylix

    D&D 5E (2024) 5e Aasimar are in the Players Handbook − what should the flavor be?

    Genasi are of elemental (i.e. inner planar) heritage, which is from the "opposite end" of the cosmology. They have no inherit connection whatsoever to the neutral outer planes.
  19. Veltharis ap Rylix

    D&D 5E (2014) Succubi Queen Malcanthet in 5e

    Pre-4e succubi were demons, 4e made them devils (as part of 4e's cosmology overhaul), then 5e split the difference and made them an independent, "any evil" type of fiend, presumably to keep from invalidating as much as possible of what they had previously written on the subject. They probably...
  20. Veltharis ap Rylix

    D&D 5E (2014) Succubi Queen Malcanthet in 5e

    I know it's probably far too late to completely excise, but the lore ripple effects from the 4e succubi migration really annoy me... "All 'seductive' demons are now devils. Except Graz'zt and Malcanthet, who are still demons, but it's okay, because now we're bending over backwards to note that...
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