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It works better narratively, but preservers will wind up weaker than their level would indicate in play. Just need to prepare the players for it in Session 0. I have thought about doing a quick and dirty 5E ersatz Dark Sun campaign using only material I currently have on hand. Muls use Orcs or...

Ultimately, what does it matter if Takhisis is Tiamat? What is the impact on a Dragonlance campaign with this knowledge? Takhisis is presented as Takhisis in the new book. If anything Tiamat has become more like Takhisis over the years, so is it a distinction without a difference? I am...

Splitters!

This is really heavy, impactful stuff. This will change everything about Krynn. Or not. I enjoy lore fights as much as the next player, but this is so niggling I can't even bother to come up with a decent parody of it. The concept of Takhisis being Tiamat changes with every product since its...

Exactly. TDM is associated with churning out pulp. They produce bad products, done poorly. They also tend to insult members of the culture they are writing about. Why is this a good thing?

In some ways, I wish the Forgotten Realms would go back to being forgotten... Mythic Polynesia is a good example of why having a Cultural Consultant is a good idea. That Liam Guy has only started to read through, about 55 pages, and has found a lot of generalizations, microaggressions, and an...

I would hazard a guess that depending on your generation the resonance of Warforged and War Veterans will be a similar experience regardless of the war fought.

I don't know if there is a lot that he could add to clarify his position. He does not want to make his 'source' uncomfortable and WotC is pretty far from finalizing anything about 1D&D. It is a rumor that Indestructoboy puts a lot of credence in. I would like him to post here on ENWorld, not to...

I do not think he was intentionally posting this to generate clicks. As you said, his posting history is not clickbait titles. I think he heard something from someone whose opinion he trusts and there was a lot of telephone game happening in this rumor chain. There is very little meat about this...

It worked. A lot of us clicked.

My knickers remain untwisted. Maybe this 'rumor' is a trial balloon to gauge the audience's reaction? Until there is an announcement with more details I can't get worked up about it. The OGL is the OGL. Not having an updated SRD might be annoying but as long as 1D&D is truly backward compatible...

I find it odd that we as gamers argue over rules semantics, RaW vs RaI, and ask for clarification all the time. We demand errata for unclear or bad rules, but somehow when people ask for social clarification of what is being presented, "Did you really mean to reference Minstrel Shows from Jim...

I agree that DR is problematic in D&D. I am simply saying that more armor types would be fluff rather than mechanics. A DR system may require more or less armor. Check out Mr. Rhexx idea for armor. Fewer types of armor would strip away fluff and flavor for simplifying something that is already...

Just don't click on the thread anymore. You have agency.

Wow. So that happened. I think having another set of eyes look for blindspots in pre-published material is a good thing. Editors are good. Copy Editors are good too. These are people divorced from the production of the material and can focus on things that the designers and developers juggle...

Here is the thing, you don't get to tell other people to be okay with something they find upsetting. You often do not get a chance to offer your weak apologia for tone-deaf art and fluff. A person picking up Spelljammer and seeing minstrel art repurposed for a monkey race and then a white...

Armor Class is such an abstraction, I don't see what additional armors bring to the table. If we changed from armor granting AC bonus to a DR system, I could see more granularity, but mostly more armor would be fluff rather than mechanic.

This is good. It should have been best practice after the Curse of Strahd revisions, but it will make for better content going forward so definitely not too late. The Spelljammer 5E mistakes were just so glaring especially when the previous release was Radiant Citadel. I imagine it was humbling...

Wow. That is gorgeous. I feel transported back in time almost 40 years... Thank you, Stormonu for sharing!

DL:WoK seems like an odd duck for a board game. There is limited replay value if they are counting on people not opening card packs until they come up in-game. The premise doesn't sound very different from Battle Interactives in the old Living series of RPGA campaigns. I don't know that there is...