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And given that MtG Arena and D&D Beyond are both hugely popular apps for playing their respective games, that makes sense. It also makes sense in light of the Virtual Tabletop. Remember that 4E was created because of the push for Digital Tools + Virtual Tabletop, that collapsed in on itself...

Agreed that MtG breaks worlds too often, and Maro has made a point that this is a continuous problem that they are now actively trying to avoid doing. That said, MtG has great worldbuilding and art because it's built on the backs of Hasbro's most profitable business strategy (getting kids into...

Almiraj were popular enough in early RPGs that they made their way into 1988's Dragon Quest III as an early-game monster, and then made repeated appearances before showing up in the wildly popular "Pokémon-clone" – 1998's Dragon Quest Monsters. In modern games, they've been "translated" as...

If we're talking backstage developments, my game world is largely based on a theoretical future earth continent orientation and what that would mean for ocean and wind currents, climate, evolution, and biogeography. But all that is stage dressing that I then built my civilizations upon. The...

They discussed the coming changes to the Wild Surge table on the video, but we didn't get to really playtest it. I noticed that D&D Beyond's YT Channel posted a portion of the Sorcerer video from D&D's YT Channel, specifically the Wild Sorcery section, so it was probably as part of a push for...

I have to warn you: this bridge is overloaded with houses and street markets and they want to widen it for cars and it's built on marshy foundations… sort of like Swamp Castle.

"Han Who? Who are your people?" "I don't have anyone." "Han. Solo. Welcome to the Academy, Han Solo. I'm sure we'll have you flying in no time." cue Han as-imperial-infantry being thrown across the Mimbanese trenches by a exposion. Kinda like the GoT Jon Snow thing where bastards or...

And punnet squares are bunk science, only really relevant to pea plant phenotypic traits…

My players tend to want a few key traits of their chosen deities. So for example, I have a god of Death, Commerce, and Justice – sort of Asmodeus X Charon X Mercury, and the cleric of that god wanted to know like common doctrines they'd shout in battle like "For COIN AND DEATH!" We also have...

In Shannara, a Halfling means a Half-elf.

I'm not alone in my thought!

It also doesn't need to be internally consistent! "A Wizard Did It!" is a perfectly reasonable excuse for just about anything in fantasy, as long as it stays fun.

Fair, it's your world after all! Also, in Arda, they're probably the exception that proves the rule. There is the occasional setting where Dwarf and Elf are respectively the male and female of the same species, but that assumes a gender-binary…

What if it's neither but a Small-Sized Human?

I like it. I was very worried that I wouldn't like the Bard but I like it. Going to adopt it, but might still houserule a few things like Spell Points instead of Spell Slots for the Sorcerer.

I.e., Book of Nine Swords?

Remember that they say that the Sorcerer catches up by level 3, but that's in terms of spells prepared (spell slots were always the same quantity for the two of them). Sorcerers spells known = spells prepared. Wizards spells known = spellbook spells; spells prepared are changed every day (and...

This was my thought; especially since Dwarves have elemental parallels too (Azer, Galeb Duhr, Eisk Jaat, Strom Burz, etc). Dwarf is just the Hill Giant equivalent.

I love that. A Mithral Dragonborn would function similarly, I'd assume. I wonder if you could have a Quinchromatic Dragonborn whose breath was variable and had traits of Tiamat ;)

Oh I think I remember that, but I also remember that in Draconomicon 1, the definition divide between Elemental Planar Dragons and Catastrophic Dragons was that Elemental Dragons were influenced but Catastrophic Dragons were original. But then when MM3 came out and introduced Catastrophics for...