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I understand this sentiment and to an extent agree, but think it’s just inevitable that it end up this way. Orcs are a humanoid species that has a lot of similarities to humans. To me, the only obvious outcomes is they either become an always evil barbaric race (often built on racist/colonialist...

Kind of the opposite, actually. The creation myth for this setting is a bit convoluted, but to put it in simple terms, two evil gods, Ahriman and Yaldabaoth, murdered Ennoea and used Their essence to create the world.

I have conflicting feelings on this topic. I enjoy ending campaigns in fighting gods as much as the next person, but from a worldbuilding perspective I prefer my gods to be transcendent supreme entities that are difficult to prove even exist. In the setting I’m currently developing, the main...

Tapati the Flaming Lioness A golden lioness runs across the sky, endlessly hunting the moon. Her violent anger radiates from her yellow pelt, shedding sunshine on the world below. Though the inhabitants of Tibil depend upon her light for sustenance, she cares not. All that matters to the lioness...

There was a hint to the Parthians in the post (pouring molten gold down someone's throat is a way they punish captured enemy commanders). And they'll definitely be capable of doing a Parthian shot while flying on their pegasi.

Here's what I currently have for the Xrytosian religion. Aluhpet is a mix of the Indo-European sky gods, Horus, and a few other ideas. Zamatra is an evil, chthonic Mother Earth. As I mentioned in the OP, I want there to be 7 gods so each deity needs to have a pretty big portfolio. Aluhpet the...

I have a few different ideas for how to approach this. I'm showing my age, but in the Percy Jackson universe the Greek gods and their Roman equivalents are the same entities, but have split personalities based on how they were worshipped by different peoples. Mars is much more disciplined...

I've wanted to make a steppe nomad culture for a homebrew setting for a long time now, as I've always thought the various semi-nomadic pastoral peoples of the Eurasian Steppe were fascinating. I didn't just want to make an equivalent of the Mongol Empire, and also didn't want them to be one of...

In LegalKimchi’s video “On Being and Playing Mixed Race,” he tearfully and eloquently explains how as a mixed race person that has been called “M*ngrel” before he refused to buy the Curse of Strahd Revamped box set because WotC did not remove M*ngrelfolk. Though the monster changed in 5e from...

Eberron and Dark Sun are the prime examples. Ravenloft might count. Ravnica and Strixhaven if you count the M:tG crossovers. Eberron still has religions that worship pantheons (mainly the Sovereign Host and Dark Six), but the existence of their gods is not confirmed. There are also...

Do you like John Carpenter’s “The Thing”? Monty Python and the Holy Grail? Blade Runner? West Side Story? Any Marvel movie? The new Dune movies? Or literally any movie/TV adaptation ever? New creative IPs are great. Reboots and sequels to pre-existing IPs can be (and often are) overdone, poor...

And Fantasy Australia (literally called “Osse” in the FR)! I want Drop Bears! Fiendish Tasmanian Devils! And magic kangaroos with pocket dimension pouches!

This may sound weird/crazy, but hear me out. Over the past few years it has become obvious that WotC has a problem. There have been several times recently where they do something stupid and/or terrible (Hadozee, OGL, copyright strikes against YouTubers covering the new PHB, and now this), then...

It would be. I started with the Stormlight Archive. So long as you start with the first book in one of the series or a stand-alone novels you should be fine. My sister enjoyed Tress of the Emerald Sea but hasn’t read any of the other Cosmere books.

Eh, not that strange. Life Transference was in Xanathar's, and Wither and Bloom was in Strixhaven. The running theme with Sorcerer/Wizard healing is that it takes some sort of "life force" to be sacrificed in exchange for healing, in comparison to divine healing spells that are less limited...

Same with the example of allowing players to make Strength-based Intimidation checks. That was in the 2014 DMG. I'm glad they're moving that to the PHB, maybe it will be more common in the future now.

“Calling it 2024 or Revised 5e is clearly just a WotC corpo-speak marketing scheme to make sure WotC doesn’t lose money on the new rules. Instead, we should ‘stick it to the man’ and use the 2 decades old WotC corpo-speak marketing scheme designed to make sure 3.5e didn’t scare away customers.”...

Yazata means “[an entity] worthy of worship/veneration” in Avestan. I’ve used it in one of my homebrew religions before. It could be an interesting title or epithet for one of your Paragons.

Well, that is one of the aspects of why people like him. It is one of his strengths as a fantasy author. That is part of why I fell in love with the Cosmere, so I felt it was worth mentioning in a quick summary. I fell in love with the Cosmere primarily because Kaladin was extremely relatable...

Brandon Sanderson is primarily a fantasy author who tackles a wide variety of topics in his books, including but not limited to: mental illness, colonialism, trauma, oppression, religious fanaticism, and how power affects people. He is often praised for his in-depth world building and magic...