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    Brainstorming a sci-fi setting, and justifying interstellar war

    "Someone is wrong on the Internet. They must be corrected. Assemble the mech army."
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    D&D 5E (2024) No Dwarf, Halfling, and Orc suborgins, lineages, and legacies

    Yes, they are both rules terms used to categorize creatures. "Humanoid" is a creature type and "dragonborn" is a tag which can be added to a creature type to provide additional categorization. (Types and tags are both discussed in the "Type" section of the Monster Manual.) To see a rule where...
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    D&D 5E (2024) No Dwarf, Halfling, and Orc suborgins, lineages, and legacies

    The Humanoid creature type didn't exist in D&D until many years after Dragonlance was created, so by your logic, calling Krynn a world where Humanoids are incorporated from the ground up is a purely semantic argument.
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    D&D 5E (2024) No Dwarf, Halfling, and Orc suborgins, lineages, and legacies

    Future proofing them so they can use dragonborn-specific feats, magic items, subclasses, or whatever else gets printed in future supplements without needing to print draconian-specific versions of those options. Providing new DMs with an example of a D&D setting which incorporates a type of...
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    D&D 5E (2024) No Dwarf, Halfling, and Orc suborgins, lineages, and legacies

    Well, DMs can always "fudge it" to say draconians use the Dragonborn Traits in the 2014 PHB, but that would technically be a house rule. The Draconians sidebar explicitly states draconians have different traits than the Dragonborn Traits in the 2014 PHB.
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    D&D 5E (2024) No Dwarf, Halfling, and Orc suborgins, lineages, and legacies

    Re-read the Draconian sidebar in the 2014 PHB. Draconians don't have the same stats as PHB dragonborn. The PHB dragonborn are one type of dragonborn which aren't draconians. The draconians are another type of dragonborn which aren't PHB dragonborn. The PHB doesn't list the full traits of the...
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    D&D 5E (2024) No Dwarf, Halfling, and Orc suborgins, lineages, and legacies

    Not rhetorical, actually curious: Do you also object to tinker gnomes being categorized as a type of rock gnome in the 2014 PHB?
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    D&D 5E (2024) No Dwarf, Halfling, and Orc suborgins, lineages, and legacies

    The 2014 PHB literally says Dragons corrupted by Takhisis are a type of dragonborn. It's in the sidebar entitled "Draconians," which explains that the draconians of Krynn, with their canonical method of creation, are a type of dragonborn specific to the Dragonlance setting.
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    D&D 5E (2024) No Dwarf, Halfling, and Orc suborgins, lineages, and legacies

    So are spellcasting elves. For the love of all that's lawful and good, please take this elf cantrip discussion back to it's own dedicated thread.
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    D&D 5E (2024) No Dwarf, Halfling, and Orc suborgins, lineages, and legacies

    That's no more a retcon than calling beholders Aberrations. Beholders existed before there was a broader category called "Aberrations." When the Aberrations category was added as a rules object, beholders were assigned to that category. No recon. Just new rules terminology.
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    D&D 5E (2024) No Dwarf, Halfling, and Orc suborgins, lineages, and legacies

    Dragonlance was another setting designed to incorporate dragonborn from the start. The 2014 PHB explicitly states that drocanians are a type of dragonborn.
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    D&D 5E (2024) Here's The New 2024 Player's Handbook Wizard Art

    I was just looking at the cover of Tasha's Cauldron of Everything, and it made me realize what this new wizard illustration is missing. Tasha is shown actively casting a spell, like it's her turn in combat and she's doing something badass. In contrast, this new wizard is just floating around...
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    D&D 5E (2024) Here's The New 2024 Player's Handbook Wizard Art

    I hope you're not implying there's a required reading list for fans of the post-1980's fantasy genre. Modern fantasy is (and should remain) a large tent, not an exclusive club with gatekeepers checking everyone's "nerd cred" at the door. I'm sure there are plenty of modern fantasy fans who...
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    D&D 5E (2024) Here's The New 2024 Player's Handbook Wizard Art

    Also, this wizard has obviously cast Otiluke's telekinetic sphere, which explains most of what's happening in this illustration.
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    D&D 5E (2024) Here's The New 2024 Player's Handbook Wizard Art

    It's not mentioned by name, but it's implied in the AD&D DMG, pg 157, in the Eye of Vecna section. No faster way in the game to give yourself 20/20 vision! (Consult your optometrist for a list of possible side-effects.)
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    WotC New D&D survey from WotC as part of the 50th anniversary year.

    A few guys? As in, more than one? And they have an entire cellar? Must be nice to live in the lap of corporate luxury. :P
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    D&D 5E (2024) No Dwarf, Halfling, and Orc suborgins, lineages, and legacies

    My two cents on halflings: Halflings as a core species make sense if all humans are required to be Medium, since halflings can fill the "Small human" niche. But once actual Small humans are an option, halflings start looking a bit redundant, especially if halflings don't have any new...
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    D&D General The abandoned core monsters of D&D

    Now I want to run a campaign where the PCs have to prevent an army of extraplanar beaver-folk from turning the entire Material Plane into a flooded wasteland.
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    Who are your favorite TTRPG reviewers?

    Thank you to everyone for the recommendations. I'll have to give them a look. Related question: Are there any reviewers out there looking for hidden gems in the DMs Guild specifically?
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