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I have no interest in Greyhawk and while I’ll probably use Bastions a lot, I’ll probably drastically alter how they work. I am constantly using the Monster creation rules so I would have liked an update to them. I do not agree with the notion that having bad guidelines is worse than having no...

You have a much more negative view of D&D than I do if you think the bigoted tropes of D&D are so important to D&D that to try to “redeem” it would destroy it and make a fundamentally different game. I do not think that all of D&D is built on bad tropes and I don’t think it’s as fundamentally...

I don’t know. I don’t think anyone knows. But I also think you’re asking the wrong question. It’s not that the villains aren’t allowed to be evil. It’s that they shouldn’t embody bigoted tropes that were used to justify discrimination against real people. For another example of a monster I...

The hot vampires do not look like Twilight vampires, hot vampires have been a thing for a very long time, and not all of the vampires in the book are hot. Unless you find the weird Nosferatu-ish vampire attractive, I guess.

Inclusion isn’t about them being good guys. It’s about not using bad tropes. If there are monsters solely built on racist, sexist, ableist, or other bad tropes, they should be either removed from the game or changed to fix them.

But they didn’t do that. In fact, they did the exact oppose of that with getting rid of Maedar in favor of just making Male Medusas without a unique name (which wasn’t even a change made by this book, there’s a Male Medusa as one of the primary antagonists in Princes of the Apocalypse, which...

How on earth would WotC copyright or trademark “male hags/old witches?” They’re likely doing this for sensitivity reasons. Not trademark reasons.

Yeah. That bearded devil art is easily my least favorite piece of the previewed art precisely because it looks like a 3D digital render, but I don’t see how that’s in any way a “red flag” WotC missed. I just don’t think it looks good.

And the video mentioned how this was an intentional choice. They are adding a diversity of styles corresponding to each type of monster. So Fiendish art will look more metal, Fey art will look more whimsical, Undead art will look more horrific, Celestial art will look more heavenly, etc. The art...

I have used those rules at least once a month starting early 2017. They were invaluable to my campaigns and getting my homebrew content published. Reskinning monsters is great. I do it all the time. But many DMs need and regularly use the deeper monster creation rules. While them not being in...

I personally have never seen that complaint for 5e before and often have to increase the hit points of monsters in my games in order for them to be a challenge.

What I found confusing when I first got into D&D is how it did certain monsters fairly accurately (Cyclopes, Centaurs, Satyrs), others took the name of an individual and applied it to the whole species (Minotaurs, Medusa), and others just stole the name and made a completely different creatures...

I remember being confused by what seemed to be a mix of a Catoblepas and Colchis Bull being called a "gorgon."

As I've mentioned in a previous thread, the 2014 Monster Manual was the first D&D book I ever owned. As a huge mythology nerd (I will die on the hill that Percy Jackson is better than Harry Potter), the Gorgon and Lamia representations made me angry when I first read them. Weird lion-women still...

This is easily my favorite piece of artwork from Theros

The Theros book has a few different types of Nymphs in it. Grain Nymphs, Underworld Nymphs, Water Nymphs, a couple others I think. But not the old generic "kills you by being naked" D&D Nymph.

A good example of a character from a TV show to take inspiration from for a Male Hag would be Rumpelstiltskin from Once Upon A Time.

It has resistance to all bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage. It doesn't specify magical weapon damage anymore. In that way the Empyrean got a significant buff and their HP was increased a bit, too. They're definitely scarier enemies now.