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I will freely admit to skipping over most of the wall of text posts on this topic. Mostly because it has largely gone way over my head. I'm rather with @AlViking on this one. In a game where violent solutions are a core part of the game, it does seem rather odd to call out any specific ones...

No version of D&D hews to the morals of ancient or medieval cultures. Never has. Look at the definitions of Law and Good in any edition and that is most certainly NOT ancient or medieval morality. Not by a long shot. But, the argument that we shouldn't have minion mechanics because it's...

Ok, what? The people in Dragonlance know what dragons are. It wasn't that long ago that dragons left. One bow? This is a fifth and sixth level party at this point that has been through multiple combats with enemies with bows. Raistlin has Web by this point. Good grief, every character...

Honestly @Minigiant, I don't think we're all that far apart. I mean, in your example of a dwarf/halflign/gnome community, if we rejigger the demographics a bit, the culture would change. IOW, culture is created by the mixture of the people in that culture. If instead of gnomes, we had...

Hey, you can ignore the text of the module all you like, but, that’s the point, you’re cherry picking what the dragon does. 🤷 the pcs have no need to go there, no reason to stand around while the dragon attacks, and more than enough resources to badly hurt the dragon in the three rounds it acts...

I get that but again, they are going to share a lot, just as your cetaceans do. They live in houses of some sort. They are all omnivores. They are basically the same physiologically- two arms, two legs, etc. they all have similar senses. Humanoids all communicate in the same way. In other...

Whereas to me I would just have an Arctic Culture where the people in that culture would be distinctly from that culture as opposed to that other culture over there. Sure individuals within a culture will be different and have different views but their views will be far more similar to each...

Don’t care about level up to be honest. You are focusing on chargen and not world building.

But there’s the point in your cetacean cultures. They have languages. Their techniques might vary somewhat but they are all pretty similar. And there is a hell of a lot bigger difference between a bottle nose dolphin and a blue whale than there is between an elf and a dwarf. Differing...

Sorry, you lost me. Game mechanics? What does culture have to do with game mechanics? To me, biology plays so little role in developing a culture that it's not really worth mentioning. Not when D&D humanoids are so close biologically anyway. They all eat the same food, have similar goals...

Well, that's a bit tricky to do - keep politics out of gaming - since your concept here is grounded in some pretty solid political statements made for a fair length of time. That certain groups of "people" don't really have a culture at all. I mean, how orcs and goblins have been portrayed is...

Well, I'd say in the real world, without any different species (that we know of) on the planet, we still manage a pretty broad range of cultures. A culture is defined by geography as much as anything. A group of sentient beings (mixed species) that lives in a far north, cold, tundra...

At the end of the day, so long as people are buying stuff for either 2014, or 2024, does WotC even care at this point? Everything they sell under the 2014 umbrella is pretty much straight profit by this point. Those books have long since paid for themsleves many times over. If adoption of...

Not quite what I'm talking about though. Elves and humans (for example) growing up together in Area 1 will have Culture 1. Elvens and humans in Area 2 will have Culture 2. IOW, the cultures should be geographic, rather than biological in nature. Sure, biology will have some impact - the fact...

Wow. Talk about cherry picking. Khisanth takes 1 full round to gain altitude in the first round of Plaza of Death. It then spends two rounds on Sleep and Magic Missile spells. So, the PC's have three rounds to scatter and find cover before breath attacks come - 3 rounds of 10 arrow attacks...

There is a world of ignored middle you seem to be intent on glossing over.

But that's presuming segregated races from the outset. There's no particular reason to presume that. Elves, dwarves, humans and everyone else didn't spring out of the ground in nicely divided locations. Well... thinking about that... they might have, but, presume that they didn't :D. Which...

While I do disagree with you on a number of things, this is one that I'm not actually too concerned about. I mean, they've been trying to link video game play to anti-social behaviour for most of my life, and it's never actually shown any correlation. The notion that RPG's could be linked in...

Sigh. This is what I mean about talking about stuff when you don't know what you are talking about. Caramon and Sturm both had their HP errata'd in DL5. The numbers you are using are wrong. Which you would know if you actually used the modules. Which I have run multiple times over the...

Why should culture be associated with species though? Isn't that the problem? We presume that elves have a mono-culture just because they're elves? And the only way you get different elven cultures is to have different species of elves - high elf, wood elf, aquatic elf, desert elf, etc...