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The original Artificer class playtest from 2017 had the Wondrous Invention feature, where they created permanent magic items, getting more options and amounts of magic items at higher levels. They moved away from Artificers making permanent magic items towards the Infusion system for the Eberron...

No, it isn't "far too late." Your argument is "D&D has done worldbuilding wrong for decades, so they have to keep doing it that way forever, except for the one setting that got it right." Like I mentioned, steps can and have been taken to prevent this "setting is story" nonsense. Rewind Dark Sun...

From just a bit of googling, it seems that Tolkien generally didn't like the Gaelic languages (Scots Gaelic and Irish). But he liked the country and Irish mythology had some influence on his writing.

Settings aren't stories, they are a place to facilitate interesting stories. And the way settings are built to facilitate these stories needs to depend on which medium the setting is being made for. TTRPG settings need to be built to facilitate stories in game for the players. Just like how the...

I don't really like most of the main giant types in D&D. The few times I've used them felt unsatisfying, in part because I just don't think their lore is interesting. I'm currently leaning towards making giants be descended from angels in my setting, based on the Nephilim. Empyreans will be...

Sure. Eberron fans did for Dragonborn. The issue is the quality of the addition. Not whether a metaplot was used to justify it. Because, clearly, a lot of Forgotten Realms fans did not accept the Spellplague and all of its changes, which is why WotC had to walk it back with yet another metaplot...

I'm not calling the act of writing metaplots anti-creative. I'm calling the absolutist position that all lore changes must be justified by a metaplot or they're automatically bad uncreative.

Blink dogs kind of fit. Will o' Wisps. Night Hags. Star Spawn. Displacer Beasts and Cloakers if you squint.

Your way is anti-creativity. If metaplot is required to justify any changes to the setting than a) if your setting has a perfect starting scenario (Eberron), then you have to abandon that perfect starting date and explain what else changes as time progresses (technology, politics, new NPCs) and...

There have been significant retcons to the Eberron setting literally every time it has gotten an edition update. For your own sake, I’m glad you aren’t an Eberron fan, because there’s no way you’d be able to handle all of the retcons. If the destruction of the Core in Ravenloft made you hate...

Even with a +2 Laser Rifle our party’s Battle Smith deals less damage than the party’s Monk. This is using the 2014 rules and we’ve been playing since 2019. I respect that your experience has led to you forming a different opinion, but mine is that Artificers are far too weak and need serious...

I’m Gen Z. I think I can present a perspective unique to my generation. Granted, I grew up Mormon and most of my social group was Mormon, but I don’t know how much that would affect my experience in this matter. I got into D&D in 2016, when I was a freshman in high school. At first I hid my...

My post and the one I was quoting said nothing about how meaningful the choices were. And the choices being selfish or stupid doesn't make them less meaningful or present. It's pretty stupid and self-destructive in BG3 to drive a stake through Astarion's heart, or to decapitate Karlach, or to...

You could murder every single companion in Dragon Age: Origins except Morrigan. You could destroy the Holy Grail (sorry, Andraste’s Ashes) for a Dragon Cult, sacrifice a child or their mother just to let you sleep with a demon of lust, use Dwarven souls to create Golems, sell kidnapped people to...

Yeah, although I’m a fan of Goblinoids having Fey Ancestry, the PC race being humanoid and the monsters being fey is definitely weird to me. Eladrin have the same problem.

Yeah, I’ve been a big fan since they announced this change about 3 years ago. It adds a lot of intrigue and tragedy to their backstory. I always hated how a ton of monsters in the 2014 PHB had bite, claw, tail, and other melee attacks that did similar amounts of damage just of different damage...

“Archon” might work well as a term for the not-Sorcerer Kings. In various Gnostic groups it was the term for demonic rulers of the mortal world. I know there’s already a couple different types of creatures in D&D called Archons, but frankly I always found them boring and using the term to mean...

The highlight of the episode for me was the lich nonchalantly snapping his fingers to counterspell.

Yeah, Zamatra is probably the most interesting deity in the pantheon. She was a mix of inspirations, mostly from Dreaded Persephone, Gaia, Artimpassa, and a bit of the setting's Gnostic theme. The Xrytosians being aerial just made having an evil Mother Earth fit really well. Hmm. The...

I also recommend taking some inspiration from the Roman Republic/Empire. They declared aggressive expansionist wars in the name of self defense, the highest ranks of political office (Consul) were only achievable through military service, successful military campaigns were rewarded with personal...