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Because this, like the Duergar lore of Moradin blaming them for being mind-controlled by Illithids and Dragonlance’s Cataclysm, is a product of the old method of absolute alignment and terrible misunderstandings of polytheism. Corellon, Moradin, and Dragonlance’s good pantheon are objectively...

There are only going to be 4 Wizard subclasses in the book. And other books (Tasha's, Xanathar's) have art for every subclass.

Sea Elves aren’t interesting (except in Eberron).

I prefer Wizards not having the innate spark of magic. I wish Sorcerers leaned into that aspect of their lore more mechanically (something like using Constitution for spellcasting and ignoring verbal/material components). To me, the main lore issue with Sorcerers is when magical ancestry stops...

Weren’t there some in Ursula Le Guin’s books? Hell, the various tropes and archetypes of magicians that developed into the Gandalf-style wizards has been evolving for thousands of years. The tropes go back to Merlin, Odin, and if you stretch a bit, to the Western misconception of the Magi, none...

. I’m not going to spoil it, but you missed a ton. The Dark Urge is way more involved in the plot than you think it is.

As for how I use “Created” races, I have a couple home brew versions for my own setting. One of which is the Golmeng, sentient golems with 4 subraces (clay, stone, metal, glass). They were created by Artificers and Wizards that were trying to design golems intelligent enough to complete complex...

Great series. I’m can’t wait for the fourth book.

I’m pretty sure they were originally created by the Giants during the ancient Quori-Giant war, but that could just be me misremembering or confusing my own lore for the official Eberron “canon.”

Yes, exactly. The archetypical wizards for me growing up were the ones from Harry Potter and that show. I didn’t read/watch Lord of the Rings until I was in High School.

I’m not sure about Gaiman, but there are a couple type of “Wizards”/Magicians in the Riordanverse. The first and main type are the Magicians, people descended from Ancient Egyptian magicians that use hieroglyphs and godly powers to do magic. The other type are children of Hekate and other...

Did you see my recent thread on Aasimar? I created some lore for a game I’m playing in to make them more interesting lore wise and with appearance.

They claimed that in previous intersections I had a habit of misinterpreting them. I was correcting them and saying that we’ve only interacted a couple of times, explaining that neither of them were of me misunderstanding their posts.

We’ve had, what, 2 interactions before? One was you accusing me of attacking you when I was referring to a different person, the other was me trying to explain that D&D has always had a variety of art styles and that it’s not getting “Disneyfied” because of two releases. If you weren’t concern...

But don’t you understand?! The part of halflings that’s interesting is that they’re not interesting! That’s why should totally get to be their race, instead of just a subtype of Gnomes or Humans. If you were to combine Halflings and Gnomes into a single race, according to the data, it would...

Don’t you know? “Disney” is when there’s cute/goofy animals and bright colors. The more animals and bright colors, the more “Disney” it is. When there’s a whole lot of animals and bright colors, that’s Anime! (Don’t bring up Erol Otus, don’t bring up Erol Otus.)

“I’m not saying it is, but doesn’t it kind of seem like it is,”/“I’m just asking questions,”/“A lot of people are saying that it might be.” This is what you’re doing right now. Please stop it.

It was especially ridiculous because they previewed art with undead monstrosities and other horrific stuff at the same time as the art people were complaining was “Disney.”

I haven’t fully read through the book, but there definitely are legitimate criticisms. That’s true for literally every book, D&D or otherwise, that has ever been published. I was talking more about how some people were complaining about it before it was even published when basically the only...

Yeah, this is reminding me of back when the Radiant Citadel book was announced and all of the sudden people were complaining about minor or ridiculous nitpicks that they hadn’t been for previous, similar books. They couldn’t say exactly why they were so upset about the book before it even...