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I’m definitely including an Archaeopteryx Aarakocra in a future game.

D&D Orcs are not Tolkien Orcs, and the origin/nature of Orcs is something Tolkien changes his mind on a few times. Also, I don’t know if I’d call Sauron’s realm “fascist.” That’s a pretty specific term that shouldn’t be reduced to just mean “evil.”

Those that ignore history are doomed to repeat it. WotC should pay attention to how monsters were depicted in the past to avoid future missteps. I can think of plenty of issues from history that were seemingly “solved” before any of us were born, but never truly seemed to go away and are...

How on earth does that matter?

Not to mention that there’s a huge difference in why Orcs and Storm Troopers are evil. The reason why it was okay for Luke Skywalker to blow up a moon-sized space station full of Storm Troopers wasn’t because they were born evil. It’s because they’re soldiers that serve a fascist empire. They’re...

Limbo has more in common with the Elemental Chaos than the Far Realm, IMO. In my approach to the Far Realm, it’s literally impossible for a mortal’s mind or body to survive traveling there. It’s the realm of extremely alien and incomprehensibly powerful eldritch beings. Limbo is more of a sea of...

That was always the case in 5e. Why does Hold Person work on a Warforged but not an Autognome? Yuan-Ti Purebloods are Humanoids, but the other Yuan-Ti are Monstrosities. Hags and Harpies look pretty humanoid. It was always a guessing game.

You said it’s undebatable that D&D under WotC is “incredibly lame.” You weren’t merely presenting your opinion, you were claiming it was an objective fact that couldn’t be denied by anyone because of your anecdotal experience. I can say from my own anecdotal experience that my players have...

Yeah, this confuses me. How does that work with them saying Monstrosities are now classic fantasy monsters and those that were created through magic? Are Thri-Kreen now unnatural creatures made by some wizard?

The Orcs and Lizardfolk of Eberron are very different from each other, even if most of them live in “swamps.” Q’barra is the Wild West, but as a swampy jungle, with some Lizardfolk serving a trapped Demon Overlord. The Shadow Marches is more of a tribal backwater, and the Shadow Marches’ Orcs...

They already had one. They live in swamps and don’t have a problem with eating other humanoids. To Lizardfolk, meat is meat. Orcs were more raiding cavemen that wanted to conquer the world for Gruumsh. I already used Orcs and Lizardfolk in pretty different ways, as did the official books.

Azer were already Elementals in 2014. Merfolk I kind of expected to be Fey, that’s probably how I’ll represent them in my games to separate them from the Tritons, who are already tied to the Elemental Plane of Water. Aarakocra kind of makes sense, given their connection to the Elemental Plane of...

The player options were humanoids. The two Hobgoblin monster stat blocks were Fey.

Yes. But they’re Fey now.

Historically speaking, was actually pretty difficult to tell until fairly recently. That’s not to say that it’s a better approach to have fuzzy borders or your preferences are wrong. Eberron is my second favorite setting and it has pretty clear borders between nations.

They explained that in the videos. There were barely any Celestials in the original 5e MM. They created some more completely new celestial monsters (Animal Lords, Iotas), but also switched other creatures into the category if they thought they fit (Nagas, Sphinxes, Giant Eagles, etc). Same story...

They’re still called Celestials.

I have no idea what you’re even talking about at this point.

Any notable differences between the two versions?

Why does this feel barely hyperbolic?