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Light Domain is certainly a thing in 5e, complete with Flaming Sphere, Scorching Ray, and Fireball. Likewise, in 2024 edition, it's one of the 4 PHB subclasses. If anything, it got a bit more Laser-y, since it replaced Flaming Sphere with Moonbeam and got an anti-invisibility feature. Also...

Yeah, but Dark Sun isn't going to be anywhere near 2024 D&D.

That's your impression, but not mine. Oberon and Titania are the most powerful, not the least.

Also, while we're talking folklore, the Tuatha Dé Danann and the Sidhe aren't depicted as short either. Likewise, the Queen of the Fairies who appears in Tam Lin and the Ballad of True Thomas Rhymer is of the same size as humans, because they're often mistaken for humans.

I would not characterize Midsummer this way. Oberon and Titania relate to the "lovely boy stolen from an Indian king" as substitute parents quarreling over custody of a child whose dead mother was Titania's handmaiden. It would be deeply creepy to present them as children, given that they talk...

I dunno, I think the proliferation of martial melee abilities that render the opponent Prone is already going to have an impact on the desirability of rnaged combat.

Yes and no. It is certainly true that some of Shakespeare's fairie characters from Midsummer Night's Dream are small, but Oberon and Titania aren't.

As someone who was raised on Elfquest elves, I don't have anything against short elves per se. (Although Longbows being an Elven cultural weapon is a bit odd to me if we're going with short elves.) However, I would argue that the Peter Jackson versions of Tolkien elves are probably more...

Yes, I think that statement is usually correct.

Speaking of world-building changes, one I would love to see is to finally get rid of the “elf = shorter” thing, which is an odd legacy of the past that I don’t think fits well with the imaginations of many players, writers, and artists.

There were magic items in Conan - heck, there are two in the very first story alone - but they are a bit more akin to the magic items in Beowulf where being magical doesn't mean they never break or get lost or stolen. Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser's weapons are at least named if not explicitly...

I agree. I don't mind a +X on an item that already does something cool, but a vanilla +X doesn't feel magical in the way that a Frostbrand or Flametongue feels magical.

And that they would add more common magic items, too.

I think Riggs' speculation about not doing an OGL for OneDnD doesn't make much sense to me. Since the 2024 edition is deliberately close to the 2014 5th edition, there would be a lot of overlap between the two editions and that overlap would all be in the OGL/CC. They could have a more...

It doesn't work as well for PCs (who are supposed to be of roughly the same ability as their peers on the same level) - although there is stuff like species feats - but it does work for other things. For example, Elven and Dwarven craftsmanship is supposed to be superior to human craftsmanship...

i'm a bit confused. What's the difference between the two cases if ranged is superior in both? Another question: I'm not seeing anything about Crossbow Expert affecting Prone, just the 5ft thing. Did I miss something?

I don't know if I agree it's just High Elves. I specifically looked for the sections of the PHB that were about all elves and came before the specific descriptions of High Elves, Wood Elves, etc.

When it comes to their physical abilities, sure. But we're talking about how Elven education and training systems work - and given that the description of elves writ large is that they're obsessive types who think that human beings need to slow down and take their time, I don't think they'd have...

I get the cognitive point - but if we're trying to figure out at what point in someone's life they are undergoing training and education and at what point they are starting their careers, the cultural expectations matter more. I wouldn't describe the Elf age as retirement - it's the age at...

But cultural expectations really matter when it comes to how societies structure education and training systems!