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At core, it's the trilogy converted to 5e. However, it includes a lot of extra stuff. They've fleshed out Saltmarsh and the surrounding environs (original module Saltmarsh was mostly left to the imagination). They've provided the seeds for running a whole campaign out of the area They've also...

Tito indicated that any of the playtest material in the Wayfinders pdf would get updated with the final versions. They've also said in the past they plan to add the Artificer to Wayfinders. AD

I've been wondering whether they would do what they did last year and pair their setting hardback announcement with a pdf release. Last year it was Ravnica-Eberron. This year it's Eberron-?. But they have done the announcements differently this year. Maybe they have decided not to duplicate...

Not too worried about that. Besides Mearls going on about how great Greyhawk was at presenting seeds for ideas without overburdening with detail, they've also more than once referred to Greyhawk as a 'sword and sorcery' setting. They want it to be the base for different kinds of stories, so...

From that interview awhile back, Mearls seems to agree with you completely, arguing that this is the best part of Greyhawk. He clearly would prefer to go back to the original box set. In this context, however, I do think there might be an easy compromise. Given how lean the baseline Greyhawk...

Or the art order is late? AD

Heh. In that same little twitter thread he also says: "That warforged has customized itself in unusual ways. Each warforged can alter how it looks. That said, the book has plenty of traditional-looking warforged "

Crawford has indicated that this is NOT the cover, but rather an interior illustration serving as a placeholder: AD

Ah. Yeah. If they are still developing Rick and Morty then these are good candidates. But I will still his out for planar! AD

They've been hinting at Tharizdun for awhile. One of them mentioned or at least supported the observation recently that Tharizdun was the ultimate D&D villain. AD

Since you mention Karel Čapek, one of my favorite books is War with the Newts. Clearly Karel had a few themes he like to revisit. Anyway, very funny book. AD

What I think is kind of amusing here is that the thread has spawned two different interweaving debates. And both appear to center around differences in a (arguably subjective) definition. The warforged being a robot or not is obvious. Just state your definition. Question answered. Then try to...

Hm. Maybe. I"m eager to see the psionic classes tested. But if they were going to test a monk psionic subclass, I'd think a soul knife would make more sense. Sure, they might be reskinning it into an astral monk to test out some idea and hide their true intent. But the features of the astral...

I don't know the answer offhand but could it be something out of Lords of Madness or the Elder Evils supplement? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lords_of_Madness#Contents https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elder_Evils AD

At first when I read this, I was, like, "Yeah! Next thing you know there will be some kind of barbarian sage subclass!!!" Then I remembered that there is already a model for that in the popular imagination: AD

Oh, I definitely don't have any objection to Anime in general (though my games don't lean that direction). But the more I think about some of the characters in those shows and how they burst with their special powers, the less odd that a Barbarian chassis seems to me. I will admit, that like...

Yeah. The Barbarian is odd flavor-wise. I feel like they are trying to capture a particular concept and decided that the Barbarian chassis was the best fit. The 'rages' aren't really rages but they actually work pretty well as mechanics for a 'burst of power'. I think this would all be a little...

I'll defer to your expertise on Eberron, though I had thought it was more 'plentiful magic' than 'high magic' setting. You have a great point about the timing. But I keep wondering about some of these various planar hints we've gotten over the years and wonder if there's another possibility. I...

Hm. I'm no Eberron expert, but if they fit in some Eberron specific context, then maybe you are right. However, these look more like something that would nicely accompany planar adventures (A Barbarian touched by the Feywild, an astral monk). But then I might just be seeing what I want to...

Seems reasonable. I also wonder whether they've got some mechanical expansion on the horizon (next year or so). Has it been enough time since Xanathar's? By the way, he also mentioned that a new UA would be coming soon. I've learned to interpret 'soon' as 1 to 3 weeks. But we'll see. AD