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Your genetic makeup is innate. Your upbringing is not. That's the difference. Both are matters of chance - no one can choose their parents or the circumstances of their birth - but species is only decided once, at the very start. Outside of reincarnation or potent transmutation magic, that...

Or just common sense. The general concept of an outlander was that they were a traveler from somewhere else - what are they then if the campaign happens to take the party back to where the outlander originally came from? Are they still an outlander in their own homeland? Is everyone else in the...

Pretty much - it's not really a prison with wardens, per se. Carceri is difficult to leave even for people just passing through, and those creatures properly "imprisoned" there are magically bound to the plane in a way that makes leaving functionally impossible. Prisoners are free to do...

Yeah, Hexblade's popularity can be largely attributed to the fact that it fixed blade pact. Now that many of those fixes have been rolled into the baseline blade pact, it's much less compelling as a subclass. That said, I think there's still room for something in the same narrative vein -...

If I had to guess, the reason is probably that "shibboleth" is a Hebrew word that was used as a password in the Tanakh/Old Testament and has become a byword for ways of secretly signaling oneself as a member of an in-group and/or excluding those who are not. There's a scene from the West Wing...

Within D&D, it's (also?) a symbol associated with Mount Celestia.

I think it's more of a situation where they don't want to touch on IRL mythology unless/until they can dedicate the page space to properly do it justice. Much as I love Deities & Demigods, On Hallowed Ground, etc., the versions of the IRL pantheons they covered were never particularly deep or...

More or less what I meant. Underlying point being that gods operate under a different paradigm than creatures like archons, devil, demons, etc. who are more direct manifestations of alignment and of the plane that birthed them. The Greek gods aren't in Arborea because they're Chaotic Good in...

Portals, the River Styx, detours through the Outlands/Astral Sea/Material Plane, etc. Also, as Micah Sweet noted, the Blood War is traditionally fought all across the lower planes, not just in Avernus.

I mean, I didn't make that call, and it's not that much different than basically all of the Norse gods hanging out one plane "chaos-ward" in Ysgard. End of the day, I look at it this way: the gods don't live where alignment says it's "appropriate" for them to live, they live where they choose...

According to the video, they've since dialed that back.

Circling back to this, think of it this way: just because two people a both good, that does not necessarily mean they are both on the same side. Archons are good, but just as importantly they are also lawful. They want to impose order - a righteous and benevolent order, to be sure, but order...

Well, for one, "Celestial" as a classification has been generally broadened in 5e. Some Astral Sea natives like the Mercane, Kindori, and Reigar are classified as Celestials now, as are the Dabus and Rilmani, despite none of them traditionally being a flavor of Good. More broadly, I think all...

I could also see them being saved for a Fizban/Bigby-style Celestial deep-dive book at some point in the future.

Not especially clean, but I grabbed this from the Pointy Hat video:

Oops - forgot to link the video in the post. It's there now.

Pointy Hat did a sponsored preview video on the new tieflings earlier today - I believe he shows the art there.

The Olympian Glades of Arborea (i.e. the pure CG plane). Home of the Ancient Greek pantheon (as one might expect) and the Elven pantheon, among others, as well as the old celestial version of the eladrin, back before the Feywild gobbled them up in 4e.