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"ba.ˈbaw" And, it's a Meditterranean bogeyman in real life mythology. A lot of DnD creatures are named, and often based, on real-world mythology.

Dragging an ally to safety is really an invention of modern times, due to one particular battlefield phenomenon that exists today which wouldn't have during the medieval era: Covering fire. However, since arcane casters can reach machinegun levels of magic missile use and archery is more...

I was counting on the SCAG-like product as being the end for those two settings, really. Everything else ending up Faerun and people just having to make due. I know that, back when 3E was around, there were a number of groups that loved to mix some Eberron content into their homebrews. I saw a...

I'd allow it without that caveat, then remind my players that any loopholes they take advantage of are also available to NPCs. For some strange reason, I never have loophole abuse problems.

Chosen One archetype: Whether it be the touch of the divine, heritage, fate, prophesy, or simply dumb luck... These paladins are drawn to wherever trouble is to fight it and end it. Unfortunately, this also makes them quickly unwelcome within communities, as if one of them shows up, either...

Have them find a person wearing clothes of primitive leather and leaves, with a helmet made out of a hard-shelled fruit (like a coconut). Nothing like a member of a cargo cult accidentally wandering upon and launching a real ship. And it can take hours of investigation before they finally...

Since you apparently missed some steps... Here, let me go back to some examples I used in a prior post and highlight the obvious. Alignment (my mummies example) is both lore and game mechanics. Previous lore, prior to the mummy change, had mummies as being good-aligned and created through...

Ah! My apologies.

No. At this point, I think we're in the middle of Crisis of Infinite Arguments and about to do another continuity reboot.

You could instead have the spell enhance feelings that are already there. Like if they have some form of respect or admiration for another person, it enhances those into a form of platonic love. If they have romantic feelings, then it enhances them to romantic love. That would completely avoid...

Which is a claim you just made up. I never made such a claim. What weapon properties? Every weapon I've compared is the same properties between the two editions. Not really. How you acquired it was different, but mechanically it worked the same way. Which in what way refutes that the...

I've provided no proof that you won't just try to dismiss as irrelevant. That is not the same thing as providing no proof. Mechanics for weapons have been pretty consistent from 3E on. Just like how armor's been pretty consistent. You could add Int to AC in 3E as well. It required a feat or...

This edition, I made a promise to myself: I wouldn't look for problems. Looking for problems is what made 3E problematic for me and what made 4E unplayable. So, I decided to treat this as an entirely new RPG and just try it out of the gate. End of the day, 90% of the problems I have with 5E are...

Yet, nothing you're saying is even attempting to refute my statement that there's no evidence they do consider canon during product creation or attempting to provide any evidence. The ThaC0 argument tends to fall apart when you consider that ACs have been consistent in how they've functioned...

I alter settings to include arenas just for events like this. Including a ranking system and quests, such as sometimes the players having to collect eggs to add new species onto the arena. I've had campaigns completely derailed because the players were more interested in climbing to the top of...

I've found it can seriously encourage creativity. Give a group a decanter of endless water, fifty feet of rope, a bag of holding, and a portable hole to work with and you'll be surprised what they can come up with using only those materials. Everything from storage and endless fresh water to...

I wouldn't be surprised if WotC released something like the SCAG for Greyhawk or Eberron. It would be an easy way to tell fans of those settings they are not totally ignored.

I'm happy it's a playtesting feature. Some of them (psionics, for example) are complete whiffs at trying to hit the class just right (psionics would probably be better handled as a set of sub-classes). But it shows us they're thinking about these things and working on them, so the utterly bad...

The fact precisely no care at all was directed toward how badly the lore of Eberron was being screwed over by the way magic items are handled in 5E? The fact that even Forgotten Realms lore is being doled out so piecemeal that the setting is still mostly dark, and it's the most detailed setting...

Bah! I should have checked there first instead of delving into mythology.