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Maybe they'll bring Theros' mythic monster rules into the mainline monster rules?

Fortunately for you, The Forge of Fury was converted to (2014) 5e rules in Tales from the Yawning Portal. So no work required there! As for the general question, there are official conversion guidelines from 3e to (2014) 5e that aren't too bad...

Axes and Anvils, one of the first Kickstarters I ever backed, intended as a gift for my brother (a big dwarf fan). After years of delays and excuses, it was finally released in PDF form in 2019... after being taken over by another designer, and well after I'd given up on it. The other most...

Wasn't aware of these, thanks!

Brute only works (worked, now) with melee weapons - not ranged weapons or other forms of attack.

Posters are not required to respond to complaints - by @Micah Sweet or anyone else. Everyone could simply ignore posts they disagree with, and engage only with lines of discussion they prefer. (There are even tools available, if they are literally unable to resist the temptation.) These...

Aww. :( Sorry, Mystara fans. (At least 5e has been a tiny bit better.) Thanks for checking!

Following from my similar questions last month about Greyhawk and Dragonlance... Was there any official coverage of Mystara (a.k.a. the Known World, the Basic D&D default setting) in 4e? All I could find was: A description of the Isle of Dread in Heroes of the Feywild, as a multiversal...

Need, no. But it's still helpful (especially if your variant is particularly variant, but you still want to make sure the essential bits are still there).

Depends on your design philosophy - are you just aiming to have your monster inflict an extra die of damage per round, or are you trying to create something that punches above its weight under certain narrative circumstances? (Same for other now-hidden traits like Keen Senses/Smell/Hearing.)

Those aren't mutually exclusive goals, to be fair. Reverse engineering makes it easier to homebrew variants of existing monsters, as much as building a new one from scratch with comparable powers.

Person A says they don't like pineapple, but do like anchovies. Then Person B claims that they don't understand how anyone could dislike pineapple and like anchovies, and repeatedly demands an explanation of how Person A could possibly justify disliking pineapple and liking anchovies, dismissing...

Yep, the dragonkin. They actually made it into 3e, as well. Then dragonborn came along...

What madness is this? People can have different opinions, with each being valid for that person? I thought there was one correct view and all the other views were dumb and wrong! My entire understanding of this discussion has been transformed!!!

Yep. Pathfinder left a scar. I'm guessing either someone (maybe a playtester) pointed out that the proposed 5e "Athaspace" was going to really upset some fans of the original setting. Or maybe they reconsidered after seeing the pushback to VRGTR from some classic Ravenloft fans. Hence the...

Weren't the new 2024 PHB races already in the Realms, with Realms lore for them in earlier 5e books? Unless you're referring to the lore changes they received. In which case, we haven't seen how the 2025 Realms books will treat the new versions. (Or how the 2025 Realms books will treat the...

I've said this here before, but it once again applies: sometimes the winning move is not to play.

Not that these approaches are mutually exclusive, of course. A moving timeline can still introduce new ideas by just having them "offstage" until now (such as the aforementioned Blood War in 2e; I also don't recall 3e officially explaining why dwarves on Oerth could suddenly become wizards). And...

"Invisible" bonuses that the designers know about, but homebrewers don't, would still be a problem if 2024 had been 6e instead of keeping the 5e label. Possibly worse, actually, since at least 5e homebrewers can still look at 2014 books and see the original reason. (Mind, I think the main...

To add: I think there's also a concern from a design standpoint that removing the stated, concrete reasons for these bonuses makes it harder to reverse engineer and build your own creatures intended to have such traits. At least, harder than it was in 2014 5e.