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    D&D General Which was your favourite Forgotten Realms Cosmology?

    I certainly agree the World Axis is easier to modify than the Great Wheel. If this thread was about cosmology in general, I might argue that the World Axis is easier to use in a game than the Great Wheel. In the context of Forgotten Realms cosmology, specifically, though, the dominions and...
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    D&D General Which was your favourite Forgotten Realms Cosmology?

    Well, there’s no way to debate subjective terms such as “needless,” so I accept that you find needless complexity in the Great Wheel cosmology. In contrast, I see the Great Wheel as something that’s only as complex as I choose to make it in my home campaign, just like the Forogotten Realms...
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    D&D General Which was your favourite Forgotten Realms Cosmology?

    From an in-world perspective, finite astral dominions and infinite planes are very different, but I haven't seen you making any prior arguments about in-world perspectives. Apologies if I missed it. From what I can tell, you've been arguing that the World Axis is superior to the Great Wheel as a...
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    D&D General Which was your favourite Forgotten Realms Cosmology?

    I find the argument that the World Axis cosmology is simpler and easier to remember than the OG Great Wheel cosmology somewhat baffling, because both cosmologies have almost the exact same number of moving parts. In the World Axis, the multiverse is divided into three main regions: the Material...
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    D&D General Which was your favourite Forgotten Realms Cosmology?

    Agreed. The cosmological model you use in your game says more about how spells like plane shift and teleport work than it does about the fundamental shape of reality. For all anyone knows, everything occurring beyond the Material Plane might be a shared hallucination approximating a multiverse...
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    D&D General Which was your favourite Forgotten Realms Cosmology?

    Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure the Radiant Citadel, from the 5e adventure Journeys Through the Radiant Citidel, is a city on the Ethereal Plane. To say nothing of A Guide to the Ethereal Plane for the Planescape setting, an entire sourcebook of adventure locations, monsters, and...
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    D&D 5E (2024) WotC Fireside Chat: Revised 2024 Player’s Handbook

    The hypothetical people who say, "That's not how the Forgotten Realms is," are overlooking the fact that Forgotten Realms supplements provide full guidance for incorporating all the classes from the 3e psionics system (and many of the rules from earlier psionics systems) into the world. Most...
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    D&D 5E (2024) Here's The New 2024 Player's Handbook Wizard Art

    Well, this is a thread about glasses now, so that seems apropos. :P
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    D&D 5E (2024) No Dwarf, Halfling, and Orc suborgins, lineages, and legacies

    Incidentally, the statement in the above quote is the best argument a DM can make for me taking an interest in their setting. I tend to show people the same amount of consideration they're willing to show me. No more, no less.
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    D&D 5E (2024) No Dwarf, Halfling, and Orc suborgins, lineages, and legacies

    Now use that fancy dictionary of yours to look up the word "causation," because nothing you've said about active and passive voice provides any evidence of causation. That's what's missing from your argument. As I've already said in slightly different words, I accept everything you've said...
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    D&D 5E (2024) No Dwarf, Halfling, and Orc suborgins, lineages, and legacies

    I don't find your argument persuasive because you haven't yet provided any evidence of causation. You've made three observations about linguistic choices in 5e: it describes player actions using active voice; it describes DM actions using passive voice; and it's designers keep using the phrase...
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    D&D 5E (2024) Here's The New 2024 Player's Handbook Wizard Art

    We've spent around 100 pages arguing back and forth about glasses. We're so far past ridiculous, we can't even see it in the rear-view mirror.
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    D&D 5E (2024) No Dwarf, Halfling, and Orc suborgins, lineages, and legacies

    In the The Horde boxed set, there's a passage that strongly implies elves and spirit folk are related: "To elves, spirit folk, and any of their blood, the water causes painful burning and rashes, almost as if they were allergic." There's also an obscure Forgotten Realms novel that seems to...
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    D&D 5E (2024) Here's The New 2024 Player's Handbook Wizard Art

    Several posters have said this wizard gives MTG vibes. Several other posters have pointed out that that Strixhaven is a D&D setting. Which got me thinking: How fast would the D&D corner of the internet explode if the sample setting in the DMG was Dominaria?
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    D&D 5E (2024) No Dwarf, Halfling, and Orc suborgins, lineages, and legacies

    You're right about that. And I certainly can't blame them for worrying. On the other hand, I do think WotC's being overly conservative. If an occasional special edition reprint of the PHB is a viable product which doesn't compete with the baseline PHB, there should be a way to release a special...
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    D&D 5E (2024) No Dwarf, Halfling, and Orc suborgins, lineages, and legacies

    Which is weird, because WotC's other game is explicitly designed to accommodate modes of play that exclude large amounts of available options.
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    D&D 5E (2024) No Dwarf, Halfling, and Orc suborgins, lineages, and legacies

    I'd be thrilled if WotC released a setting where some classes and species in the PHB were outright replaced by new options. (I hear rumors Dark Sun was supposed to be that way, but the design decision got overruled.) But I suspect WotC is too worried about alienating people by restricting their...
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    D&D 5E (2024) No Dwarf, Halfling, and Orc suborgins, lineages, and legacies

    Can a setting book have a "different take" on a core species if the core book doesn't commit to any take on that species in the first place? Why print a Schrodinger's elf which has no lore instead of, say, a feat for humans that are statuesque and long-lived due to their mastery of magic and...
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    D&D 5E (2024) No Dwarf, Halfling, and Orc suborgins, lineages, and legacies

    In fairness to the Forgotten Realms, Corellon isn't native to that setting. The first elves to arrive on Toril worshipped the gods of the Fey. They weren't even aware of Corellon's existence at the time. A population of Corellon's followers migrated to the Realms centuries later (after...
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    D&D 5E (2024) No Dwarf, Halfling, and Orc suborgins, lineages, and legacies

    Tangent: How exactly is Corellon chaotic good? He's cursed an entire species of his own creation multiple times just because he's having a fight with his ex; he hangs out with a demigod whose entire portfolio is genocide; and he's demolished a populated continent in the Forgotten Realms just to...
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