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Okay, fine. You guys want to portray the side I’m on as being intolerant of other perspectives and wrong because of our surety that our way is right, and yours as the scrappy underdogs fighting against oppression. Sure. That’s precisely the sort of “co-opting inclusive sounding language” I was...

Lol. Literally every time a new 5e book comes out or is announced, a certain group of people rush to discussions about it to trash them over not following the “one true way” they felt was abandoned when WotC announced they were going to get rid of the racism in the game.

Yes, but the original meaning of the phrase, at least in my experience, meant “you’re making a mountain out of a molehill.” Not “stop talking about this, because it’s just a game and you shouldn’t care about issues like this.” It is just a game. I think there’s a time and a place for “it’s an...

It is interesting to me that when one side of the argument has learned that their previous arguments weren’t working and big companies like WotC have stuck with their current inclusive direction, they don’t for a second reconsider their stance. Many of the things they want to say are typical...

Harengon innately get proficiency in Initiative.

I always thought Orcs follow Orcus. Also, if it does come from Orcus, I believe that would make it a cognate with “Ogre.”

Grendel in Beowulf is called an “orcneas.”

If D&D were to get rid of/change any of the Archfiends, Baphomet would probably be the first to go, given the main theory around the origin of his name is it’s a corruption of “Muhammad.” I personally don’t think it’s a problem, because D&D Baphomet clearly isn’t based on Muhammad and his...

I don’t think including entities from dead religions is as much of an issue. The Gnostic groups that believed in Sophia died out long ago. It’s annoying how D&D used to make so many female characters and monsters be naked. And I’m pretty sure Sophia isn’t supposed to have a physical form.

Like @Shardstone said, each type of vehicle had its own stat block similar to the approach in Ghosts of Saltmarsh, but the different components of the vehicle had “Action Stations,” where a person could spend the action on their turn to operate it. So one person would control the “steering...

Damn it Wizards! Why can’t they give us actually interesting celestials?! It sucks that this one was cut. Hopefully they end up printing it in a different book or Monstrous Compendium. There are over twice as many Celestials in the 2024 Monster Manual than there were in the 2014 one, but that’s...

Sorry, this just reminded me of something I saw a while back:

The impression I had was that they were merging three subclass concepts together: the original Knowledge Domain, the Arcana Domain, and the idea of a psionic cleric subclass (like Eberron's Mind Domain).

The original 5e PDK was notoriously one of the worst and most boring subclasses in the game. It did a very, very poor job of emulating the niche that it was meant to represent. I don't care a bit about retcons so long as the change is good. I think it's disappointing that they seem to be...

This is awesome. I'd like to note that the word "ettin" is a cognate of the term "jotunn," from Norse mythology.

I actually like the war wagons and thought the idea was interesting. I can easily think of ideas for how to work that into an adventure. Maybe the party is asked by a benevolent Orc tribe to locate their lost war wagon. Or a dwarf stronghold that was recently attacked by an Orc tribe could send...

I really liked this subclass. I think it could use a few changes, but overall it's solid. The AC can definitely get crazy high with the right build and the lore that they serve all 4 genie types is a little weird, but not a big deal. I wasn't a fan of the last two Paladin subclasses WotC came...

Red. I thought this subclass steps too much on the toes of other Bard subclasses. It says it's the Fey bard subclass? We already have that, it's called College of Glamour. They record history and channel folktales with their bardic inspiration? Wow, they just stepped on the toes of the College...

Yellow. I think it could use some more thematic cohesion and a damage buff. It does less damage than most other rangers. Why do they get remove curse? What's with the "frightening" theme and abilities? I also thought their capstone doesn't seem like a Ranger subclass capstone. It seems more like...