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I'm 99% sure Fizban's Treasury of Dragons names him as a Greatwyrm, and that same book basically explains that every dragon god other than Io, Bahamut, Tiamat and Sardior are greatwyrms

You're like one step removed from breaking out the forceps and measuring skulls my guy

This is literal anti-consumer behavior. The consumer was promised the digital edition in August. There is no reason to delay the digital edition; there is nothing wrong with it. The only reason to delay something promised to the consumer, many of whom already paid for it, is because they want to...

So they're delaying the digital book for four months because of this? I can't say I'm happy about this: I wonder if the relative dearth of promotion for the book is because they were debating whether or not to delay the it

So you're NOT entertained?

I can ask that it be discarded and ignored because it is a harmful stereotype and an overwrought literary trope that directly affects me. Imagine saying that same naughty word to a Native American who's tired of the "noble savage" archetype, because that's exactly how I feel about "tragic mulattos."

My dude are you literally saying every mixed race person brings to mind the "tragic mulatto?" Simply having a mixed person must bring to mind segregation and persecution? That's such an American-centric take. You're just like Gary Gygax saying all half-orcs must be the result of rape. The...

No, some anatomically modern humans (Homo sapiens sapiens, the species and subspecies to which you and I both belong) do have ancestry from other members of the Homo genus who are not necessarily classified as species; many people of European descent have some Homo neanderthalensis in their...

I'm mixed race and I personally am really interested in the experiences of mixed race people across Earth and in fiction. Why are we allowed to have black, white, Asian and even Hispanic people in D&D but we can't have mixed or creole people?

A perfect example of how the literal translation of "mixed" in French is unspecific, but as you said, "Metis" is also a specific (creole) ethnic group.

It's extremely common in the various postcolonial holdings of romance peoples (Spanish, Portuguese, French) but it's also commonly used in linguistics. Hell, there's an argument to be made that middle English, the English of Chaucer, is a "Creole language" of Old English and Norman French. I...

It could be that I come from a culture with a lot more positive associations with the term, but I am unaware of any situations where it's inappropriate or a slur, and I am having a hard time thinking about other words that could be applied as broadly. We can't use "mixed race" or "multiracial"...

Maybe we should stop calling them hybrids and start calling them "Creoles"? The half elves, orcs, dwarves and giants of my personal setting have been calling themselves "creole peoples". Everyone wants pirates of the Caribbean in their d&d setting, no one wants to bother looking at Caribbean...

Perhaps hold person can be something like "the hold person spell affects any small or medium creature with no more than four legs, no more than four arms and no more than six limbs total". I think that'd include like thri-kreen and centaurs while excluding mariliths? Also the new khoravar is...

Saying that magic and science collide is far more accurate than saying magic replaced science in Eberron. In Eberron, magic is practiced scientifically: there are laboratories, hypotheses, data and a big emphasis of the setting is on reliably replicating phenomena. That's science baby, even if...

Maybe "magewright" for a blue collar mage?

Let's not forget they explicitly did design a tie-in prequel adventure to BG3, but Larian took so long in development that their game came out years later. The first act directly follows from BGDiA, I'm sure they planned for there to be only a year or two between the adventure and the game but...

Some playable races, like dwarves or small races, have a speed of 25 instead of 30. This may have changed with the new 2024 rules, but then the language is still there for any older races that haven't been updated.

I definitely think Calimshan pulls double duty, it's a "token noneuropean setting" but if it ends up being popular that probably lets them know they can greenlight a revised Al-Qadim setting or something else like Maztica or Kara Tur