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Yesssss, this could be great.

Dark Sun gladiator was so cool I picked up the Gladiator handbook before the campaign setting.

It's a damned good product that deserves a bigger audience, especially since WotC gets special treatment in stores due to M:TG on top of the basic brand scale, so I do hope they're able to reach more people with this hire.

In the context of the game, there is a tradition of lighting being costly - the default is a torch in your hand, with a lantern being a costly upgrade. The specific lantern in the game is s lantern that must be carried in the hand or placed on a surface, but this doesn't prevent other lanterns...

Better to hook a brazier to your brassiere.

There's a campaign about yugoloths meddling with the planes of law in all this.

Here in Seattle home games are harder to set up, but a third space or online game is a lot easier, and there are plenty of Adventurer's League, Pathfinder Society, etc. groups to be found. Sharing home space is increasingly rare, as fewer people have extra space or time to prepare for guests...

May help to treat it as the enterance hole moving to the stuff rather than the stuff moving to the hole.

Certain high ground is basically cover.

Sometimes you have a Character Guide for Lost Omens (at least for Tian Xia) that is basically the mechanical side of things, focused on classes. Some books are also quite mixed; Dark Archives is full of mechanics and character options but also a bunch of mini-adventures, all built around a...

Gotcha, thanks. That certainly fits into 5E's writing style. I think it's fair to say that 5E is not going to introduce a greater variety of supernatural concepts - or even be more specific about what exists - as that is not 5E's design philosophy. However, those distinctions do exist outside...

Does 5E have a glossary or keyword entry you can quote? Prior editions had specifically Supernatural abilities.

You're using a colloquial definition, but other usage narrows magic down as a subset of the supernatural. Supernatural is the broader term, even though they are often used interchangably.

Depends on the culture. The world is very, very big, and humanity has come up with pretty much any variation you could hope to imagine. Journey to the West alone is a bunch of different belief systems directly interacting and sometimes punching each other.

It's more the other way around. Everything was just a normal part of the world until we started dividing it up and figuring out some of it was wrong. Aspirin is a Relieve Pain potion etc.

We're talking about psionics in D&D, not the specific "psychic" culture of the Western world which was itself also inspired by non-Western sources. Psionics is a mish-mash of borrowed ideas that includes things from religions, philosophies, occult practices, and scammy magicians from around...

:/ The world is a lot bigger than Europe.

Psionics is based in supernatural beliefs that have been popular for thousands of years and indeed are now more believed in than wizardy stuff.

Mystique can be individual. Soldiers don't cause assassins to lose their mystique just because they both use guns.

I could go on a big ol' rant on descriptive terms vs. technical accuracy (birds are fish etc.) but at the end of the day this is fiction so there can be magic, schmagic, and magyk and they could do the exact same thing and can be defined as completely different things. None of this has a truth...