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I will enter. I doubt I will make the cut to the 10. These sort of contests get me off my rear and write some of the ideas that just fester in my mind. I enjoyed the setting search and will no doubt enjoy this 'DM's Got Talent'. Ideas are a dime a dozen, focusing the idea into something usable...

Spelljammer confirmed!

It's about time. The setting contest that resulted in Eberron was a huge deal. I am very glad they are giving the community a chance to shine.

The new UA for Strixhaven Witherbloom College subclass seems pretty Witchy. Potions, cauldrons, and life/death magic all seem to be in a hedge wizard/ wise woman vein. Throw in Hexblood lineage and you have a more haggish, (not haggis spellcheck)

Woohoo! I have been waiting for WotC design to stretch a bit. This is good. The Colleges are a mix but most are pretty flavorful, the Prismari just fail to live up to the flavor. Also, the necrotic Witherbloom subclass powers read a lot like Defiler magic for Dark Sun. Obviously with some...

Late to this discussion, but thanks to all who have provided historical evidence with citations especially Doug McRae. It is fascinating. It has fudge-all to do with D&D except tangentially. Combat is so removed from reality that injecting facts just muddies the argument. Having firearms do...

There are two arguments going on here. One is what Dark Sun needs to be a complete setting and the other is 5Es very conservative creation of new systems/ classes to expand the breadth of the 5E rule set. I am going to dodge the first point for a bit and address the conservative rule system...

The problem is the WotC shorthand in the PHB of the cultures for drow and orcs are they are EVIL and the character, while different, must fight against their nature. It is also constantly reinforced in every subsequent mention of the orcs and drow of how decadent and evil they are, except a few...

I think you are bound for disappointment Bacon Bits. 5E DarkSun is coming and I don't know that we are getting all the proper subsystems, judging by how psionics are handled so far. I think they will produce an adequate defiling system and rules for wilderness survival. I am apprehensive about...

Added complexity is watered down? I always thought the moustache twirling evil black skinned dominatrix spider elves were pretty simplistic. (Eclavdra doesn't like anyone to mention her moustache.) Part of this comes from Bob Salvatore's favorite Mary Dru being the lone shining beacon of...

So we have come to the point of the thread where calling someone 'grognard' is ageism and discrimination. I figure I would catch up any latecomers to the thread. More young people is a good thing. A large over 40 age group is a good thing. Grognard gets tossed around as a pejorative and as a...

Who da drow? You da drow!

Unibrow, Lowenbrau and Evenflow. Oof. They are all still drow. They might not even need to do a lineage race. I could see just optional racial traits like for tiefling. Maybe swap a spell-like or proficiency.

I would like psionics to really break the Vancian system rut we have been stuck in for almost 50 years. Psionics should be innate spellcasting, (so should sorcery but that ship has sailed for this edition.) As an innate spellcaster, magic should be more fluid. There should be base spells, like...

I don't know that there will be new subraces. I think at most they will create lineages like in Ricky's Guide to Spookytown. The Southern elves live in a 'place of shade', I would imagine this a part of the deep forest/jungle where little sunlight pierces the canopy. I also imagine the Starlight...

If it is as fun as Willow, I will be a happy D&D movie viewer. After watching Game Night, I have had my expectations rise. (they were pretty low) No Beholder acting as a guard dog.

So we know it is set in the Forgotten Realms and Rege Jean Page is not playing Drizzt. The rest of the 'precis' is bunk?

Doddering Old Git is taken. Now, where are my Dark Sun book and full psionics system?

Even better a continuation of the 80's cartoon. They just posted screenshots the other day.

<S> I urge you to all switch from Grognard to the acceptable terms Wizened Old Crone or Old Grumpy Fart. </S> By the way, almost all of Gen X is contained in the 40+ demographic. We are old too. I celebrate that a majority of players are under 40. That means the game has a bright future, rather...