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And intentional to make up for the removal of resistance/immunity to nonmagical bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage.

And the Iota isn't really even a weaker version of an Empyrean. It's a living divine thought. Interesting idea, very Gnostic.

Theren Liadon, a premade High Elf Wizard from the Lost Mines of Phandelver starter set. My DM hadn’t read the rules, so he didn’t know what my spells did and made up their effects on the fly. He ruled that Magic Missile only did 3 damage and thought burning hands just lit your hands on fire...

Karsus’s current form is a giant bleeding rock in the High Forest. He became a Vestige because he died on the material plane, and his soul was trapped inside his petrified body. I once played a Changeling Hexblade Warlock devoted to him that was trying to restore Netheril. I hunted down and...

I always intentionally mix and match aspects of different cultures and time periods when worldbuilding. It makes for more unique worlds and allows for in-world people groups that are less stand-ins for a real group and more a confluence of interesting concepts from a variety of them. I don’t...

My criticisms of the Dragonborn lore in the Forgotten Realms is 1) it’s tied to the Spellplague and whole Abeir-Toril continent switching shenanigans and 2) they’re just boring. They’re a stoic, proud, righteous warrior race. Basically Paladins, the species. And there should be more to them than...

These are my favorite versions of each of the core 5e races. Aasimar: Eberron’s Shulassakar. They’re celestial humanoids whose ancestors were transformed into divine Yuan-ti by the Couatls, before the angelic serpents sacrificed themselves to trap the Demon Overlords in Khyber. Now the...

I think you mean melanin. And saying race is about skin color is a bit overly simplistic. You can be racist against someone that has the same skin color as you (anti-Irish racism in America is a good example). But, yes, race is a social construct. Typically created to justify discrimination...

One of my most memorable recent encounters was with a more powerful Giant Spider that had vampiric powers and created spidersilk mummies.

Yeah. I liked the few templates we got in the original 5e Monster Manual. It would have been nice to get rules for monsters that have been corrupted by necromancy, fiends, or ceremorphosis.

The first D&D book I ever owned was the 2014 Monster Manual. I got it for Christmas in 2016 and had only started playing the game a couple months before. It was my first introduction to most of the classic D&D monsters and I spent the whole day reading the book. One of the problems I had in my...

Like @pukunui said, the new Stone Golem has a ranged attack, so they’ve probably given the Tarrasque some way of dealing with Ranged and/or flying enemies. I would probably give it an aura that prevents flight in an aura. And maybe a ranger spine or acid spit attack.

I also echo the sentiment that we needed more high-level monsters in the MM. In the original 5e Monster Manual there were no monsters from CR 25-29. And there were only two CR 24 monsters (Ancient Red/Gold Dragons) and the Tarrasque was the only CR 30 monster. This was a problem once campaigns...

I’m pretty sure there were some monsters in Van Richten’s and Fizban’s that had it. Have newer books (Bigby’s) not included it?

I think a 40k show could absolutely work, but the genre of the show and writing need to be right. A satire in line with Starship Troopers could absolutely work. Or a dark comedy like Jojo Rabbit. Andor is definitely a great series to look to as an example of a modern show that does a good job at...

I, like @Oofta, hope that the updated “Make Your Own Monster” table is in the new Monster Manual. I have gotten a lot of use out of the original 5e table and it’s absence from the new DMG is a huge problem if it isn’t going to be in the Monster Manual. Here’s to hoping WotC just made a smart...

Let's get things back on topic, shall we? I am pretty sure I have only used Stone Golems a single time. They're one of those monsters that you can't really use until fairly late in the campaign, and once you do your players probably have a lot of powerful options to deal with it. the one time I...

So, will you stop making your gripe with WotC over their approach to canon/metaplot our problem anymore? Maybe start your own thread about how you don't like it, so you can talk with other people that did like metaplots? I would prefer if discussions about (checks where this tangent began) the...

There were a ton of retcons in 4e Eberron that did not make it to 5e because the fanbase didn't like them (Baator, trying to organize the Orrery cosmology like the World Axis, anyone being allowed to gain Dragonmarks, etc). There are some retcons that did survive 4e Eberron, because the fanbase...