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Way to completely ignore the rest of the post. And seemingly intentionally ignore the point of it.

I would like to point out that the people complaining “why doesn’t their clothing look medieval? D&D has to be medieval!” are taking a very privileged and Eurocentric position. Zinda, the setting for the Wages of Vice adventure that this art comes from, is based on African American life in the...

I saw an interview with Ed Greenwood where he talked about how both TSR and WotC don’t understand how polytheism works and that the rules for clerics don’t represent how the pantheons are worshipped in his setting.

I don’t think it’s weird. There’s a lot to love about dwarves.

One of my players absolutely loves dwarves. I’ve intentionally given them a prominent, unique role in my setting because of this. In my experience, although dwarves don’t have the biggest fanbase, they have one of the most dedicated ones.

And when compared to the Steel Defender or Beast Master’s Land companion. Which already have a hard time staying alive during adventuring days. It didn’t scale well, it was very MAD, and it’s attacks were weak. I thought the subclass’s mechanics were awfully underwhelming.

It is my theory that no one actually likes the Purple Dragon Knight lore. They’re just a generic order of chivalric knights that killed a dragon once. It is so bog-standard that I cannot imagine someone reading it and thinking it’s interesting. People just know the lore. They’re familiar with...

Tieflings have a designated niche, being scrappy underdog devil people, which has made them super popular. Especially amongst people that can relate to the fact that they’re discriminated against. It is very easy to come up with plots that involve discrimination against Tieflings, like Baldur’s...

Some versions of the Andean “chimera” Amaru has a llama’s head. The figure was believed to be extremely powerful because it could journey to all 3 realms of the universe; the sky, the earth, and the underworld. It looks pretty Draconic to me

I don’t remember him mentioning his family history beyond the first chapter.

I love Ancient Americas! I’ve been watching a ton of their videos recently. The Inca have been a major inspiration for the main mountainous culture of my setting, which is mainly comprised of dwarves, halflings, goliaths and humans. I’ve taken inspiration from a variety of real world...

The Wari and Tiwanaku were the main ones before them. The first civilization in the Americas, the Norte Chico, were also from Peru and were older than Egyptian civilization. And, unlike other cradles of civilization, food crops were not the main source of food for the Norte Chico civilization...

I just finished 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann. It was very, very good. I learned a ton about a variety of Native American cultures that I had known next-to-nothing about beforehand as well as those I already had a good amount of knowledge on (Aztec...

This strange variety of potatoes is known as “cj'achun wakachi,” meaning “makes the daughter-in-law cry” in Quechua. If a man wanted to marry a woman, his mother would force her to skin one of these potatoes in one try without wasting any of it. If she failed, they weren’t allowed to marry. I...

Touché

Yeah. I’ve spent a good amount of time cursing Francisco Pizarro and his cousin Hernan Cortez. So much was lost through colonization and disease. When the Spanish informed Atawallpa that they were going to kill him, they gave him a choice. If he remained pagan, they would burn him to death. If...

Agreed. I think it would be cool to play a wizard that used a Khipu as their “spellbook.” Or have magic Khipu that functioned like the magic manuals in D&D. Terraces are actually really interesting, as they keep the soil damp enough to water crops without drowning them. But they also kept the...

I appreciate the wordplay and sentiment, but have to correct you here. They actually did use bronze for tools and religious purposes. Metal was mostly used to designate status for nobles and governors. Commoners weren’t even allowed to own jewelry. For example, almost all the silver and gold in...