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Several posters have said this wizard gives MTG vibes. Several other posters have pointed out that that Strixhaven is a D&D setting. Which got me thinking: How fast would the D&D corner of the internet explode if the sample setting in the DMG was Dominaria?

You're right about that. And I certainly can't blame them for worrying. On the other hand, I do think WotC's being overly conservative. If an occasional special edition reprint of the PHB is a viable product which doesn't compete with the baseline PHB, there should be a way to release a special...

Which is weird, because WotC's other game is explicitly designed to accommodate modes of play that exclude large amounts of available options.

I'd be thrilled if WotC released a setting where some classes and species in the PHB were outright replaced by new options. (I hear rumors Dark Sun was supposed to be that way, but the design decision got overruled.) But I suspect WotC is too worried about alienating people by restricting their...

Can a setting book have a "different take" on a core species if the core book doesn't commit to any take on that species in the first place? Why print a Schrodinger's elf which has no lore instead of, say, a feat for humans that are statuesque and long-lived due to their mastery of magic and...

In fairness to the Forgotten Realms, Corellon isn't native to that setting. The first elves to arrive on Toril worshipped the gods of the Fey. They weren't even aware of Corellon's existence at the time. A population of Corellon's followers migrated to the Realms centuries later (after...

Tangent: How exactly is Corellon chaotic good? He's cursed an entire species of his own creation multiple times just because he's having a fight with his ex; he hangs out with a demigod whose entire portfolio is genocide; and he's demolished a populated continent in the Forgotten Realms just to...

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Ranger. It's always ranger.

Yes, they are both rules terms used to categorize creatures. "Humanoid" is a creature type and "dragonborn" is a tag which can be added to a creature type to provide additional categorization. (Types and tags are both discussed in the "Type" section of the Monster Manual.) To see a rule where...

The Humanoid creature type didn't exist in D&D until many years after Dragonlance was created, so by your logic, calling Krynn a world where Humanoids are incorporated from the ground up is a purely semantic argument.

Future proofing them so they can use dragonborn-specific feats, magic items, subclasses, or whatever else gets printed in future supplements without needing to print draconian-specific versions of those options. Providing new DMs with an example of a D&D setting which incorporates a type of...

Well, DMs can always "fudge it" to say draconians use the Dragonborn Traits in the 2014 PHB, but that would technically be a house rule. The Draconians sidebar explicitly states draconians have different traits than the Dragonborn Traits in the 2014 PHB.

Re-read the Draconian sidebar in the 2014 PHB. Draconians don't have the same stats as PHB dragonborn. The PHB dragonborn are one type of dragonborn which aren't draconians. The draconians are another type of dragonborn which aren't PHB dragonborn. The PHB doesn't list the full traits of the...

Not rhetorical, actually curious: Do you also object to tinker gnomes being categorized as a type of rock gnome in the 2014 PHB?

The 2014 PHB literally says Dragons corrupted by Takhisis are a type of dragonborn. It's in the sidebar entitled "Draconians," which explains that the draconians of Krynn, with their canonical method of creation, are a type of dragonborn specific to the Dragonlance setting.

So are spellcasting elves. For the love of all that's lawful and good, please take this elf cantrip discussion back to it's own dedicated thread.

That's no more a retcon than calling beholders Aberrations. Beholders existed before there was a broader category called "Aberrations." When the Aberrations category was added as a rules object, beholders were assigned to that category. No recon. Just new rules terminology.

Dragonlance was another setting designed to incorporate dragonborn from the start. The 2014 PHB explicitly states that drocanians are a type of dragonborn.

I was just looking at the cover of Tasha's Cauldron of Everything, and it made me realize what this new wizard illustration is missing. Tasha is shown actively casting a spell, like it's her turn in combat and she's doing something badass. In contrast, this new wizard is just floating around...