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Thanks At this point I had assumed something along those lines. Regardless of my personal opinion about removing humanoid species from having specific entries in the MM, the rest is a logical and consequent implementation that, at first glance, seems very well done. This goes along the artwork...

Probably, 1) They didn't want humanoids in monster statblocks. 2) They wanted lizardfolks in monster statblocks. 3) Therefore, lizardfolks needed to change type. They could have gone many ways, they chose earth elemental for reasons that might be conceptual (a connection with earth element as...

Agreed Because if either WotC or (part of) the D&D community is telling me "if you use orcs as enemies. you are a racist", I'm not laughing. This itself is an hyperbole, but racism is one of the most ignoble of moral misconduct these days, and people don't like to be called racist and react...

Which to me, this resonates to « goblins and hobgoblins can get killed with impunity and deserve a place in the monster manual because a goblin is no longer a person » which is… weird. By removing all the humanoids from having an entry in the MM, it increases the contrast between humanoids and...

Because although they are made-up, people identify to them because… 1) the creator makes it clear that there is a direct relation with a certain type of people or ethnic group. The harm may not have been intentional but the direct relation was. 2) the community makes it clear that there is a...

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Not really. At this point, bakers, librarians and shop-keepers are becoming an hyperbole to say that an orc commoner shouldn’t be that different from a commoner of any other PC species and therefore we don’t need a separate orc commoner stat block - and by extension - that an orc warrior...

I have a feeling that my opinion on this isn’t going to be popular, but orcs not having dedicated stat blocs in the MM since they now are a full-fledged player-character species makes sense. Base-game PC species are not «monsters»; they are NPCs and require generic NPC blocs. That was a...

I was going say something along these lines. Some games are designed to work with props, usually a map and minis, running on rules that allow players a certain level of tactical analysis but also dependant on definitive and precise awareness of the environment (which works best with visual...

Im surprised nobody mentioned 4e D&D. @Celebrim did. Many people would agree that the rules weren’t bad. If anything they were excellent. But the presentation turned many people off (including me). In presentation, I’m also including the choice of terms used to describe abilities and key...

I’d like to redact my answer to « lore is essential but it is not essential for lore to be deep ».

Lore is essential But as with everything D&D, I reserve myself the right to say « that’s not how I want it » and change it.

Wasn’t Arvandor a (elf) domain on the first layer of Arborea? I remember knowing of Arvendor from Planescape, didn’t know it was also in FR (though not surprising).

I get that "fléau" there is used in the sense of "bane" or "scourge", but the Flail of Phlegm sounds like a delightfully disgusting magical item...

early civilisation and « mythic » age is ripe for supers, who will likely engender myths and religions in the future. Works well for a grand-scale plot, with powerful god-like beings and dark forces as villains. Harder to separate super-powers from religious believes however, if only in the eyes...

I was about to nominate Forgotten Realms and the Warhammer RPGs (both fantasy and 40K) as the are still highly creative, original, but admittedly no longer fresh. Same with Star Wars as a setting; very creative, kept surprisingly "fresh", but I wonder to what extent I'd say original as they keep...

My money is on the Sphinx of Wonder

Humanoids and monstrous pantheon are based on the assumption that these species are basically mono-cultural across all settings (which kinda make sense if your gods show up saying « that’s who we are, that’s what you are, and that’s how we want you to act »). Moreover, most non-human pantheons...

Yeah, green orcs and goblins are a Warhammer thing. I suspect a relatively benign reason behind this, such as "green is more fun/contrasting to paint on minis than grey" But I'd say that because Games Workshop is a hobbyist company, the image of the "green skins" with a protuberant jaw exported...

Whoa, you’re taking me way back…