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I may have left when I was 16 but California is still the land that spawned and raised me. It’s really weird to watch outsider opinions on California, especially folks who don’t seem to understand that Northern and Southern California are very much separate beasts culturally and politically...

The illustration shows a bustling marketplace full of activity. That sets the mood plenty for me. It doesn’t show kittens frolicking on a giant bean bag chair.

Hey, Gen-Xer in my mid 40s here and I’m all for more hopeful and light material vs the constant doom and gloom. Like, have we looked at the state of the world lately? Anyone? We could all use a lot more hope in our lives these days, even if it is just at our dragon game tables. Also even the...

People also argued that after Ravnica that Sigil was redundant too - “Oh a huge city plane dominated by factions? Well, there goes any hope of Planescape!” I do worry it might push any possible Planescape release back some but it doesn’t kill the possibility of it. The Citadel is far more...

People always gotta find ways to weasel around forum rules, amirite? 🙄

Man, you stick one cute creature on the cover and everyone assumes the whole book is Pokémon or something.

No, it means a usually female character who is unrealistically without flaws that’s often a author self-insert. Because of this, it’s also frequently used as a thinly veiled code for misogynistic attitudes too. Power level was never a part of the original definition. The Lady is a plot device...

The weird selective amnesia too, as if 1/2/3e didn’t have their weird fluffy moments and joke monsters.

Except it doesn’t replace SJ or PS in any way. There’s a finite number of crystals that connect to a finite number of Prime worlds. At a single finite hub city floating in the Ethereal. It’s not the huge omniversal nexus Sigil is, nor does it cover Wildspace travel between worlds like SJ does...

gets to a minimum safe distance from you in case that Flaying Gaze has splash damage

I’ve seen so many people grouse about how D&D doesn’t do anything but encourage solutions through combat and that the other pillars of gameplay are underrepresented in a mechanics sense. The second we start seeing moves to address that more, OTHER folks get mad that there’s less than 100%...

Man, bookstores wherever you live must have some draconian rules. Yikes.

Can people PLEASE learn what a Mary Sue actually means rather than just throwing it around Willy-Nilly to mean “female character that I don’t like?” Unless you’re making the argument that the Lady is Zeb Cook’s self-insert, in which case… 🤷‍♂️

Hey now! The Lady isn’t a deity. That kind of talk will get you sent to the Mazes!

They did a UA for Spelljammer races, they’ve been seeding SJ hints for a while now, plus the Boo cover sketch and then the D&D Leaks Reddit guy who proved to their mods a few days ago that he does have inside access basically confirmed the details of this book in advance also said SJ and DL were...

It’s already been more or less confirmed that Spelljammer is coming later this year. Unofficially, of course. I do share your concern about Planescape but at the same time who knows?

Even considering there’s a mini-gazetteer for each world’s setting, plus layout for the Citadel itself and new monsters and such, I highly doubt the adventures are going to be 3 pages each. I get this is hyperbole and such but why are you so salty about this book? I’m a huge Planescape fan as...

Huh - I somehow totally missed that Ari had left Wizards and the D&D team. Totally under my radar. That said, I’m sure Ari still helped steer this one. These books have a longer lead time than most folks realize. This was probably his last project before leaving. He’s just not around now to do...

Especially considering one of the biggest controversies around their last adventure anthology was one writer claiming that editorial gutted and butchered his original submission to the point he disavowed it. But sure, “no editorial oversight” 🙄 Also many of these writers have a track record of...

Oooh interesting! I didn’t know Miyuki Jane Pinckard did tabletop writing! Haven’t kept close tabs on her since her days at EGM/1UP so I didn’t really know what she was up to these days. Also this would be Surena Marie’s first games writing credit wouldn’t it? Pretty sweet! Interesting release...