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And hey, I will not say Mother's Basement is wrong about the shows he talks about. I've seen a few of his videos and he generally has a solid head on his shoulders. I think his brand has tilted towards talking about trash fires, and Isekai had the unfortunate luck of being popular, meaning a lot...

Cozy Fantasy is also the best

Sure, there can be mutliple factors. I guess my issue is that people keep presenting it as the ONLY and OBVIOUS factor, when... I don't think the designers have ever once stated that was the case? They have never said that they changed a type to make it okay to kill the enemies by making them...

How does that track with Worgs becoming fey instead of Monstrosities? I think they also suggested Displacer Beasts changed to Fey instead of Monstrosities. Or the Grimlock becoming an Aberration. While the discourse has been drilled into the ground and buried on "humanoid becomes something...

It depends on the anime and its tone. Ascendance of a Bookworm? Totally wholesome (when not dealing with the realities of nobles and orphans in a medieval society) How a Realist Hero Rebuilt the Kingdom? Totally wholesome and sweet relationships, if you don't think too much about the...

Monstrosity Magical Beast Celestial Fey Quite a lot of options for floating talking jellyfish

Honestly, that immediately has me wanting to change Speak With Animals or Griffons. I think that SHOULD let you speak to a Griffon, because there would otherwise be no other way to do so. But this is also just inherent in Monstrosity/Beast and Monstrosity/Humanoid having a great deal of overlap

Neither have Flumphs It isn't mindless though? Psionics (to my knowledge) first came in with the Mind Flayer, then monsters like the Thought Eater and other Aberrations. THEN it became a PC ability. The fact of the matter is, psionic monsters have been tied to the Far Realms (Mind Flayers...

Bouncing off this, most older myths and tales didn't have their magical or magic-using beings use magic once or twice a day. Even if it was only once per the story, it didn't feel like that was all the magic they could use, just that it was all the magic that was needed. I'm thinking of things...

Also, not for nothing, planetouched is a rather useless category. It would include all fiends, all elementals, all abberations, all constructs, all fey, and potentially all or a lot of Undead depending on your lore. It becomes a meta-category that needs to be sub-divided anyways. Edit: Forgot...

Non-Humanoids can still be people. Where have they EVER stated that non-humanoid beings are not people? Because DRAGONS and GIANTS are not humanoid, and are totally people. Also, it isn't because of the eggs. No one at WoTC even brought up eggs. It was because of what was done to them by the...

Ship of Theseus So... it would be like a horror movie. Like a cosmic horror. Like Illithid are. I'm not getting the complaint here. The idea that the Gith's entire rebellion was part of the Mind Flayer plan and failsafes are built into their minds and DNA are EXACTLY the sort of Cosmic Horror...

I mean, they did say they were going to be enhancing what makes these creatures non-humanoid as part of their statblocks. Additionally, it was their home more than anything that was referenced. The Githyanki live in a place without time, giving them a far different perspective to humanoids who...

Okay, so you do know they had reasons, so your only complaint is that you either do not understand or do not like their reasons. That is different than what you keep saying. AS to a stab at answering your questions, which given the history you will likely dismiss, here are some speculations...

For some of them, no changes whatsoever, or changes that made it more like their favorite editions would be the only things that count. Goblins were not fey, now they are fey, CLEARLY NOT BACKWARDS COMPATIBLE WOTC YOU LIARS AND CHEATS!! ect ect ect ect ect ect It really does boil down to "they...

Just a question, have you watched ANY of the last four or so videos where they talked about the creative decisions behind these changes? Or have you just decided that since it isn't obvious to you, clearly they never intended to do anything creative or cohesive and they just made trash for the...

I'm stepping back from this thread. I've got too many things I'm trying to follow, and this isn't worth it at the moment. May get compelled to respond again later.

Looked in the mirror. Determined that I did not cause the car accident in England that nearly killed one of my players. Determined I did not give my close friend's Grandmother-in-law Alzheimers, nor did I get his wife pregnant with two children, nor did I alter his career or relationship in a...

So, with the discussion on the humanoids I would like to put down some of my experience. I've long taken PC racial abilities and added them to the NPC statblocks and.... that's all the work it really takes. And looking around, you only would need to do this for Orcs and possibly Drow? Comparing...

But that IS the Gith lore really. They were fundamentally altered to be the Slave Super-Soldiers of the Illithid Empire. They were not originally Gith, and no one except the Mind Flayers know what they once were. They have been changed and altered on every level. And this is like, 2e lore for...