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I think it depends on how secure your Upper Planes are. If demon hordes show up every week, then your ground level plane will be one big fortress (LG), one big bar full of heavily armed, rowdy heroes (CG), or a pleasant forest where Guardinals are waiting behind every tree to...

I really like aura of encouragement. Definitely feels like a lawful thing.

Today's word of the day is connotation. Angels don't have a connotation of "giant wingless guy" or "floating eyeballs." It is very rare that D&D choses something that conflicts with connotation. I don't see it happening here.

There were celestial dwarves in Arcadia and celestial elves in Arborea, either of which could use the NPC stat blocks. Likewise, the fiendish orcs and hobgoblins of Archeron could use the NPC stat blocks. That being said, I wouldn't want to go overboard on that, it would be a little...

I usually move the gods to Arcadia, Bytopia, the Beastlands, and Ysgard, as the "pure" alignment planes are too stuck to be changed by a god (what is the point of being a god if a HOA is looking over your shoulder). Arcadia: Moradin has lots of elementals (Planar Ally usually gets you a Dao or...

Hmm, I could see higher level sphinxes and angels being the bosses of archons in Mt. Celestia, higher level angels and animal lords being the bosses of guardianals in Elysium, and animal lords and empyreans being the bosses of eladrin in Arborea.

They could make multiple stat blocks for the different forms; they did it for Alyxian in Call of Netherdeep and Auril in Rime of the Frost Maiden. In 5e, having higher than animal intelligence made a critter a monstrosity (unless it was awakened), so if a werewolf stat block is a beast, it will...

One DnD 2025.02 on the front page has all the magic items with names starting with A-S from chapter 7 of the 2024 DMG.

I suspect we won't see any humanoids in the MM except as examples for the NPC's. I do hope they expand the NPC's significantly, and I wouldn't mind if there was a list of "feats" for lack of a better word to make an NPC more Lolth-specific, Gruumish-specific, or Tiamat-specific, etc. One...

If the Planar Incarnate is any indication, sometimes the planes can be pretty interested in sending messages.

They could fit 4e style angels in Empyreans, and that might be the goal, since that was one of the more popular 4e-isms. Solars, etc, have been more good than god for a while, especially since they could have been working for a celestial paragon since 2e. At the end of 5e, the archons were...

I treat acts as having alignment (think of your soul as having 9 sacks, and the sacks you fill up the most are more useful in the afterlife). This tends to focus on the combat aspect of D&D. LG: You feel bad about hurting something (or good about helping them), and the act shows conformity to...

I think Pathfinder did something like this for kaiju (I am so far behind; I have barely opened the latest Bestiary), but maybe gargantuan critters should have some kind of effect when they move. The wind stirred up by an ancient gold dragon flying makes it hard to fly near the dragon (even with...

I always thought there should be a swarm of the lower level modrons That is not really neutral if you look at actual neutral outsiders in D&D. Slaad infect you with a chest burster--you suffer to give birth to a new slaad, but there is no indication either slaad enjoys your...

Since my gimmick for Yeenghu is that he gets a little juice from the Abyss every time a beast is changed into an aberration, fiend, monstrosity, or undead, it doesn't matter if gnolls are monstrosities or fiends. I noticed that a lot of demon lords are associated with changing a creature from...

One DnD 2025.01 on the front page has all the magic items starting with A-Q, and in the Misc tab, the supernatural gifts and siege weapons from the 2024 DMG.

I hope at least one of the multiball setting is a beholder one.

One DnD 2024.10 on the front page has all the magic items starting with A-P from chapter 7 of the 2024 DMG.

The Ferret totem barbarian totally invalidates my Squirrel totem barbarian.

One DnD 2024.09 on the front page has all the magic items starting with A-L from chapter 7 of the 2024 DMG.