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Public speaking is the number one phobia in the United States. In-class presentations are frequently cited as the most dreaded aspects of a course by students.

That is in fact a misconception on your part.

True. I just think for now it will be covered, maybe even called out by this new system, with a full reprint of kobolds with the change made concrete to come in another book.

I don't expect a new writeup for kobolds explicitly, just whatever new rules for changing racial mods to cover it. As for Purebloods, they gave Satyrs magic resistance, so I suspect they aren't too concerned.

It doesn't really come across in the books themselves, but in interviews and such the developers have mentioned that some spells, items, and even subclasses (to a much smaller extent) are made in mind more for monsters and NPCs than for players.

PC write-up doesn't have a prescribed alignment, so I imagine it's not included.

Honestly, the biggest reason is that ability score penalties are not popular. They've been falling out of favor in D&D for years, and as soon as Volo's came out everyone knew if they did a setting like Eberron that orcs would get revised stats.

Already confirmed to have 4 player co-op.

So I'll leave explaining the broader cultural topic that is the entire reason we're discussing this in the first place to someone else. But 3e and 4e had both gone to some lengths to broadening gnolls and their culture, and really broke them out of the "always evil slaughter fodder" niche. Some...

I believe it was Ed Greenwood's kitchen.

Redemption is an aura. In fact, it's the same ability as Crown, except as a larger range aura.

I'm guessing he's referring to Eldraine, the Arthurian/Fairy Tale inspired setting that debuted last fall. The two book trend we have so far what make me bet against it anytime soon, but I wouldn't call it an impossibility.

Core books, the entire stretch from Volo's to Dragon Heist, Ebberon, the Starter Set and Essentials Kit, and I intend on picking up Theros. I picked up the Core + Starter Set at the end of 2015, went hard from end of 2016 to end of 2018, and have lightened up since.

I imagine the metal armor bit wasn't part of the elevator pitch. They entice you with the hippie nature talk and chance at magic weather predicting powers, and don't start telling you the restrictions are hard-coded until you're in deep and ready to sign the bark contract.

That's the the nature of a lot of moral/philosophical/religious beliefs. Full of contradictions, illogical, and eventually you'll come up with a scenario too challenging to be answered by rigid principles. The question is whether you can imagine the founders of a druidic sect convincing...

Was just reading through some magic articles about various mechanics and the designer (Rosewater) mentions that those that require a sacrifice on the part of the player are generally not received well by newer or inexperienced players, at least initially. I think it's a very natural reaction...

I do not believe so.

That depends on exactly what you want out of it. What kind of animals? And are the species just the race, or do you want an entirely new badger class? As an example, let's say a player is inspired by Sif of Dark Souls. They want to be a wolf with a sword in its mouth. I'm going to assume magic...

Personally, I've never thought of magic itself being a language, but it's a fine approach. In my games deciphering the text is a process that can be made harder if whoever is doing so doesn't know the original language of the original writer (though that's never actually happened to a player)...

"Copying a spell into your spellbook involves reproducing the basic form of the spell, then deciphering the unique system of notation used by the wizard who wrote it. " The default assumption presented by the PHB is that each wizard uses their own cipher for their spellbook. I like your...