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Please don't repost this on a MtG forum. It might give WotC ideas.

Baldur's Gate 4 spoiler: At the end, you must choose to release the blue dragon, the green dragon, or the red dragon. All three choices have the same narrative impact on the world.

My old-school terms for those categories: • Lightly wounded • Moderately wounded • Seriously wounded • Critically wounded

Nice. Sounds a bit like the Elemental Tempest paragon path.

Alternately: reintroduce specialist wizards. You pick a subclass, and that subclass tells you which schools of wizard spells you can and can't cast. And you can't cast all of them.

Slightly more niche than the stuff other posters are listing: I'm thinking of updating the 4e version of genasi to 5e. I like how 4e genasi can potentially acquire the ability to manifest more than one element. To me, that gives 4e genasi a strong Elemental Chaos vibe, in the same way each of...

I’ve also played in both cosmologies, so I know the process of flying to the homes of deities is equally easy in both the OG Great Wheel cosmology and the World Axis cosmology. The realms of deities in the Great Wheel are finite in size, with physical borders you can walk across. (There are no...

I certainly agree the World Axis is easier to modify than the Great Wheel. If this thread was about cosmology in general, I might argue that the World Axis is easier to use in a game than the Great Wheel. In the context of Forgotten Realms cosmology, specifically, though, the dominions and...

Well, there’s no way to debate subjective terms such as “needless,” so I accept that you find needless complexity in the Great Wheel cosmology. In contrast, I see the Great Wheel as something that’s only as complex as I choose to make it in my home campaign, just like the Forogotten Realms...

From an in-world perspective, finite astral dominions and infinite planes are very different, but I haven't seen you making any prior arguments about in-world perspectives. Apologies if I missed it. From what I can tell, you've been arguing that the World Axis is superior to the Great Wheel as a...

I find the argument that the World Axis cosmology is simpler and easier to remember than the OG Great Wheel cosmology somewhat baffling, because both cosmologies have almost the exact same number of moving parts. In the World Axis, the multiverse is divided into three main regions: the Material...

Agreed. The cosmological model you use in your game says more about how spells like plane shift and teleport work than it does about the fundamental shape of reality. For all anyone knows, everything occurring beyond the Material Plane might be a shared hallucination approximating a multiverse...

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure the Radiant Citadel, from the 5e adventure Journeys Through the Radiant Citidel, is a city on the Ethereal Plane. To say nothing of A Guide to the Ethereal Plane for the Planescape setting, an entire sourcebook of adventure locations, monsters, and...

The hypothetical people who say, "That's not how the Forgotten Realms is," are overlooking the fact that Forgotten Realms supplements provide full guidance for incorporating all the classes from the 3e psionics system (and many of the rules from earlier psionics systems) into the world. Most...

Well, this is a thread about glasses now, so that seems apropos. :P

Incidentally, the statement in the above quote is the best argument a DM can make for me taking an interest in their setting. I tend to show people the same amount of consideration they're willing to show me. No more, no less.

Now use that fancy dictionary of yours to look up the word "causation," because nothing you've said about active and passive voice provides any evidence of causation. That's what's missing from your argument. As I've already said in slightly different words, I accept everything you've said...

I don't find your argument persuasive because you haven't yet provided any evidence of causation. You've made three observations about linguistic choices in 5e: it describes player actions using active voice; it describes DM actions using passive voice; and it's designers keep using the phrase...

We've spent around 100 pages arguing back and forth about glasses. We're so far past ridiculous, we can't even see it in the rear-view mirror.

In the The Horde boxed set, there's a passage that strongly implies elves and spirit folk are related: "To elves, spirit folk, and any of their blood, the water causes painful burning and rashes, almost as if they were allergic." There's also an obscure Forgotten Realms novel that seems to...