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Agreed. The Bastion events table is like a wandering monster table that randomizes encounters for verisimilitude. If a DM decides to utilize rules for random encounters, the DM shouldn't also get to change a friendly encounter into a hostile one on a whim. The entire point of the randomization...

Those aren't rules for creating custom backgrounds. Those are rules explaining how to apply what's written in a background description to a character you're creating, plus a statement saying a DM might provide you with more background options. Compare that to the "Customizing a Background"...

No, there are no rules for creating custom backgrounds in the Player's Handbook. Your statement is potentially misleading to people who don't have the book yet. "Itemizing what a background comprises" isn't a rule for creating custom backgrounds, just like itemizing what elements weapons have...

I'm not sure why you're quoting me here. I was responding to post a claiming most lands in Faerun had human majorities. I replied with examples of lands in Faerun with non-human majorities. Of course my hand-picked examples of lands with non-human majorities aren't going to be multicultural...

It's probably not what the OP is looking for but... ...a Githyanki (resistance to Psychic damage) under the effects of a Feign Death spell (resistance to all damage except Psychic damage).

Coming soon from ChatGPT: a campaign setting with nothing but AI-majority kingdoms.

The Forgotten Realms only appear humanocentric in the 3e FRCS because that book focuses on the human-majority lands of Faerun. Supplemental campaign setting material includes plenty of lands with non-human majorities. For example: Dwarf-majority lands like the Dwarfholds of the North, the...

Good catch. I think you're right about those being stat block references. I missed that because the names were capitalized, not boldfaced they way they are in the 2014 rules. (I don't think I've actually seen yet how 2024 formats the names of stat blocks.)

I'm glad none of that causes dissonance to your mind, and I suspect you're in the majority on that. My mind works differently, so much of what you wrote does cause dissonance for me. I'll put my explanation in a spoiler block, because it's lengthy and somewhat off topic:

That's helpful for people who are reading the rules or who are playing by post (assuming anyone who's visually impaired has a screen reader which somehow calls out capitalized words; I don't use screen readers, so I don't actually know if that's a thing or not). But when I'm communicating to my...

When I'm using a game to tell a story, I get cognitive dissonance every time I have to reference the rules using terminology which is completely unrelated to what's going on in the narrative. For me, the names of rules elements matter. Of course, I realize other people process language...

Baskets and mirrors have no agency in the game world; they don't perform actions of narrative consequence on behalf of players. In the 2024 rules we've seen so far, only player characters, their pets (familiars, etc.), and their Bastions can do that. When a rules element is a means players use...

I can only answer based on what I've seen published in official WotC-published campaign sourcebooks. (The Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide simply states Halruaan wizards were able to "propel their kingdom safely" into Abeir.) If your game uses setting canon not published in WotC sourcebooks, then...

For some reason, they go out of their way to remove all cultural info from species (except for orcs), then immediately insert a bunch of cultural info into the language rules. The rarity of a language is entirely dependent upon one's culture. (Incidentally, the 2014 PHB claims Common originated...

I can't speak to the main complaints. My complaint about Bastions was something which didn't seem to bother too many other posters, probably because it was a problem I had with the narrative, not the mechanics: The Bastion system uses game mechanics which, to me, seem disassociated from the...

Apparently you can, if your government is a council of archmages lead by a divination specialist. The Halruaan Elders saw the Spellplague in advance and planned for it by transporting their entire kingdom to another, safer plane of existence. That's Time-Lord-level awesomeness, which is why my...

Halruaa. When the Spellplague destroyed half the multiverse and plunged all of Toril into a hundred-year dark age, Halruaa said, "No thanks. We'll just ride this out in our safe space. See you again next edition."

Your post closely resembles the feedback I gave on weapon masteries during the playtest. If the designers read it, they clearly weren't moved.

No design notes today, just a progress report. I’m currently making headway on the two new setting guide chapters I’m adding to my trail guide. (I’ve changed the working title of the Semphar chapter to “The Great Silk Road,” since the Forgotten Realms highway called the Silk Road extends well...

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