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Clearly, wotc hasn't been incredibly strict with this sort of thing this edition. This whole armor thing is them having the courage to include the tiniest of tiny nudges. To me, the details of specific scenarios are not as important as the general theme. I don't allow people to "gatcha" me with...

Mechanically i personally think all the casting classes could be limited to light armor and it wouldn't really be that big of a deal. They'd get hit a few more times, so what? To me, Clerics have heavier armor than that so they can fulfill the archetypical fantasy of being a armored...

You can do what you like in your homebrew game, but i find the base game is stronger if the classes have distinct and clear identities, otherwise why have classes at all?

That's the stance i take too. Whenever this whole debate comes up, i prefer to just side-step the "RAW" or whatever, and instead think "why is having slightly more AC number more important than just playing the archetype the class represents normally? Unless you play some insane meatgrinder...

I run with the take that the feywild is the opposite of the shadowfell/shadow plane, it is a rough mirror of the material/regular world, but much more vibrant and exaggerated towards whimsy and weirdness. It is also where all the fey live.

No, and my reason is that i really, really like any, even the slightest, of incentives to play a character archetype rather than a subversion. I'd love if every class had some variant of this. Though, I'd love even more if they were not needed.

Some people really enjoy as weird and out there settings as possible, but for everyone else, i find "generic fantasy" is perfectly serviceable. To the people who do not have learning about a setting as their primary form of fun, i find that the game world broadly (as opposed to the exact parts...

It's always great to hear of the hobbies continued growth in the, well, whatever year it is of this new golden age. While i don't doubt that they're very interested in pumping out video games and other such spin-off products, i also think that, based on the general industry trends and their work...

The "vocal minority" on Twitter are about 1000 times more influential than all the old-style forums combined. And i'm not looking to debate whether that's good or bad, I'm just saying that's the way it is.

I get the impression from reading this thread that a DnD version of being told how the sausage is made would be exactly as popular as the metaphor, for mostly the same reasons. Well, mostly the same, but even worse, because DnD is ultimately a game about fantasy (the concept rather than genre)...

I think you got pretty close here, the "doomer" nostalgia sentiment can be pretty overpowering sometimes. I cringe every time i read a variant of "D&D is being destroyed by Eberron and Critical Role", or by story-gaming or by whatever else isn't in line with how things "used to be". It shouldn't...

The age thing seems to have struck a nerve huh? I remember it did last time they posted the numbers too! When i first joined this forum, i was in the youngest demographic and 5e had just come out. Now I'm in the 20+ category, and the generation younger than mine are exploding into the DnD...

I didn't mean the "lore" of the Warcraft orcs spesifically, more their visual design, as also seen in elder scrolls, Warhammer, Raid: SL, "Orcs Must Die", and countless others. Compared to the weird pig head versions, the big green orc is ubiquitous.

There's entire generations of players who have grown up knowing only this. I think abruptly reverting to how thinks were in historical times would be jarring, to put it mildly.

I voted Forgotten Realms here, but more generally I'd describe it as one that generally follows the assumptions made in the core book without needing a lot of twisting or subversion to fit. Conversely, If all or large parts of a setting are designed to "gatcha" people's basic assumptions, then...

If a VTT does it for me, then great! But otherwise I find it pretty fiddly to be super strict about.

There is no inherent reason NPCs must follow rules made for player characters. Use the social understanding of fairness to not "dunk" on your players, and beyond that, anything goes.

In most cases, i agree.

The face of the elf there is really messed up (it looks contorted and constipated rather than cool) but other than that i think both pieces are fine. One is a very clear "key art" type piece and the other is more blurred aiming to evoke a tapestry or mist-laden image in the vein of fantasy.

Previews here look amazing!