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There were a couple of "Broken Golarion" threads on the Paizo forums a few years back that basically did the same thing - mapping out what the setting would look like if the heroes of every Pathfinder AP (that existed at the time) failed and the villains' schemes came to fruition. It's a fun...

No comment on the monks, but my (admittedly limited) understanding is that the Githyanki/Githzerai split happened in the distant past. I don't think we have a specific time range, but the Githyanki's initial post-split leader Gith (who disappeared after travelling to Baator to forge a pact with...

You spend an invocation slot to get one of the pacts, but the playtest version also gives you two extra invocation slots - a total of 10 at level 20, as opposed to 8 in the '14 warlock. If you're focusing on a single pact, you're coming out an invocation ahead, and you can pick up a second...

Except there is no way this system would ever apply only to elves. Turning darkvision into an "innate spell" is invariably going to be applied to dwarves, tieflings, and every other species that currently possesses darkvision.

Do these "innate spells" still require an action to cast? Still require burning spell slots to cast more than once (if non-cantrip)? Still go poof the instant you get hit by a Dispel Magic? What benefit is there to giving a character an at-will personal water breathing cantrip as opposed to...

DM: "Your character is tossed into the open sea, locked in manacles and chained to an anchor." PC: "Going to be hard to escape, but at least being a Sea Elf means I can breathe water." DM: "Sorry, your hands being locked in manacles mean you can't perform the necessary somatic components to...

It's also possible for your character's ability to walk to be a cantrip. Doesn't mean it should be.

Well, we agree on that much. I disagree about locking things like always active and non-magical innate water breathing and darkvision behind spell casts, though.

And how exactly is this not moving us back to a mix-and-match, pick your traits system for ancestry anyway?

Between the calls to turn species traits into feats and those calling to turn them into spells, we're rapidly approaching the point where we don't need dedicated species at all. Just spend all your other character customization options to reflect you character's ancestry - not like you're using...

The point I'm making is that you're taking something that was previously innate and non-magical and locking it behind a spell cast, which puts it at the mercy of whatever spell duration it ends up with and effects that dispel magic. Are species with wings going to need to cast the Fly spell in...

And every Sea Elf subsequently drowns the first time they go to sleep where they ostensibly live, because their water breathing spell expires or a cabal of evil sahuagin sorcerers quietly drop anti-magic shells over their homes.

I think Perkins/Crawford said something more recent than that - as in, within the past month or two. Something along the lines of they've already got the next setting release lined up and ready for announcement and that they were excited to talk about it once Planescape is out, presumably...

That too.

Seems to be a 1e Manual of the Planes thing... 2e's Planes of Chaos and 3e's Manual of the Planes both say only that, if any layers of Limbo exist, they aren't stable and don't play by any rules that layers on other planes follow, constantly forming out of the plane and remerging into the...

Limbo only has a single layer - it's all just Limbo. I think you're referring to various divine domains within Limbo, which is very much a different thing - more akin to the top layer of Ysgard being home to Asgard, Vanaheim, Alfheim, Jotunheim, Selune's Gates of the Moon, etc.

I think they've implied another setting release (whether single book or slipcase) next year, and given it will be the 50th anniversary, either Greyhawk or a proper Forgotten Realms guide would be my guess. Furthermore, as others have noted, the '24 DMG is said to contain a "sample setting"...

Moon elves are also known to have silver hair on occasion, so the claim that silver-hair is explicitly the reason for making the character a drow is dubious - particularly since the same description could also reasonably describe many generally elderly people whose hair color has faded just as...

Honestly, if Larian were to do another game based on a D&D IP, I think they might actually have the chops for a new Planescape game. Probably not a true sequel to Torment, per se, since the story of the Nameless One is pretty definitively concluded and should be left alone, but something in the...

Honestly, I'm of the opinion that gods (and their divine servitors, angels) generally shouldn't have alignments. Much easier to use figures like Zeus and Odin if you don't need to reconcile some of their actions in IRL mythology with whatever flavor of "Good" alignment they've been assigned, and...