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Huh. Tieflings are descended from the ruling dynasties of the first civilizations in my setting. I must have accidentally reinvented something 4e did. Again.

I am just as tired as everyone else of the endless cycle of reboots and sequels that have been plaguing Hollywood for decades, but remaking media by adapting or stealing from older stories is often a good thing. Do you not see any irony in your post in a discussion about D&D? D&D shamelessly...

Grimdark is not an entirely useless genre, but nihilism is entirely anathema to why I love, consume, and create fantasy media. Too many people and writers think grimdark means “no one can ever be happy, nothing matters, and any character that is momentarily happy or cares about anything...

I do not think mustaches are a “theme.”

Are mustaches one of the major themes of Dragonlance?

Basically everyone that was in the D&D leadership when that statement was made has since left WotC. Including Kyle Brink, who made the statement about Dark Sun being too problematic to bring back.

Thanks for the correction. I do not own Oriental Adventures, I had just heard that criticism of it before and thought it was illustrative of something to avoid when worldbuilding cultures. I don’t know much about Mystara, but the little I’ve heard made me hesitant to learn more about the...

These are the two D&D adventures I’ve created and ran that I’m the most proud of: An MKUltra adventure where the party has to shut down the mind-control experiments, rescue the victims, and kill Ted Kaczynski’s ghost. An adventure taking place in a magical underwater laboratory built on...

Dungeon Meshi and Frieren are two pretty popular D&D-esque anime. I imagine Kpop Demon Hunters will inspire many future games. Also Arcane, Game of Thrones/House of the Dragon, etc. I’ve used stuff from Brandon Sanderson’s books and the Locked Tomb series recently. I’m under 30. I played (and...

Now this post actually has a point and I think there is something interesting worth discussing here. It’s something I have been thinking about recently. One of the main criticisms of the original Oriental Adventures product I’ve heard is how it merged China, Korea, and Japan together into a...

The ability to sweat better than other species also helped. Made us the best long-distance runners in the animal kingdom.

Ancient Roman tourism to Greece, Antioch, Egypt, and more was very common. Many people would buy souvenirs. Probably not at gift shops, though.

On the topic of pattern recognition: Start the video at the 11:20 mark and you will recognize a pattern within half a minute.

A setting based on the lived history and experiences of an ethnic group that did not exist in the Middle Ages will not be medieval. And by allowing D&D to not be medieval we are allowing a broader variety of people to use their background as inspiration in the game. I also encourage you and...

I do not recall ever accusing anyone of being a horrible person or trying to oppress anyone. And my post wasn’t directed at any specific person. The point of my post was not to attack anyone. It was to explain why the context of the art and therefore why it isn’t medieval. It isn’t based on...

The Sensa Empire in Gold for Fools and Princes, another Radiant Citadel adventure, is based on medieval West Africa. Specifically the Mali Empire I believe, as gold mines are a major aspect of the setting. But Africa is a large, diverse place and there could be several settings inspired by...

Zinda definitely is not a one to one replication of some place 100 years ago. The writer of Wages of Vice definitely used their imagination when making the setting and adventure. I recommend you read the adventure before making such strange statements. I will admit I do prefer Zinda to...

If my post was directed specifically at you, I would have quoted you. There were multiple people complaining about high heels and other modern clothing not existing in the Middle Ages, so I made a general post discussing that broader complaint. Again, this is gatekeeping what D&D is allowed to...