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So... problem solved? We can get a Psion in the next Tasha's book?

Including the nilbog from MotM could have helped justify and play up the Fey-ness of goblins. It would also provide an opportunity to fix the biggest problem with the 5e nilbog: The mechanics are designed under the assumption that all goblins in the world are monsters. An unkillable trickster...

Well, sure. It's easy to use the Psion stat blocks to create all kinds of NPCs. But that doesn't really address the OP's point about the lack of a Psion class for PCs.

They do not. Just the druid.

I'm looking at a physical copy of the book, and the Druid stat block therein has the (druid) tag.

Happily, I just got my Monster Manual, and I can say there actually is an in-world name for Elemental lizardfolk. Two, in fact: Geomancer and Sovereign. The only stat blocks that mention lizardfolk with the Elemental subtype are the Lizardfolk Geomancer stat block and the Lizardfolk Sovereign...

Is there a special, in-game name for lizardfolk who forge powerful bonds with the Elemental Plane of Earth? The description makes it sound like Humanoid lizardfolk and Elemental lizardfolk are living side-by-side in the same culture, with the latter group as a specialized variety of the former...

On a bookshelf in Limbo, the books are in a random order. On a bookshelf in the Far Realm, fish and melted candles, and the color green tells you what to think

It's even worse when you realize troglodyte literally means "cave dweller," yet some random clan of jungle-dwelling lizardfolk has a stronger connection to elemental earth than any troglodyte.

hides file containing homebrew Spelljammer-Planescape-Ravenloft mashup/reboot Nothing to see here. Carry on, folks.

Designers: "It would be cool if the Forgotten Realms had a nation with dragon-riders!" Ormpur: "We're right here. A city-state of dragon-riders for hundreds of years. A dragon's flight away from Calimshan. No? Okay, just shoe-horn some redundant tropes into Cormyr then. That's fine. We're in...

One benefit to providing Fey counterparts of certain Humanoid creatures is the addition of more verisimilitude to the default "D&D Multiverse" campaign setting mentioned in the core rules. When the setting narrative claims certain creatures have an association with the Feywild, the game...

I'd say the messaging is weaker than the mechanic. The designers chose to use, "Your PC has lost their feyness," as their messaging for the creature type change. As far as I'm concerned, that's a weak way to frame what they're doing. The designers could have instead said, "There are plenty of...

Between the recent holidays and some ongoing distractions at my day job, I haven’t had a chance to update this thread for a few weeks now. Thankfully, I’ve found time since my last post to make some progress on the book. Here’s a brief status report: I’ve changed the working title to the...

In fairness to Curse of Strahd, creating the false impression that you have agency but not actually giving you the option to leave is probably the most on-point thing a Ravenloft module could do.

The 2e Monstrous Compendium entry for maedars explained the reason for their petrification reversal powers. It was a hunting strategy. A medusa would petrify and shatter a victim, and a maedar would then turn the chunks of stone into edible chunks of meat.

Now that gnolls are Fiends, one can presumably play a tiefling of gnoll descent.

D&D slots stopped being D&D after the 2nd iteration. 3rd iteration is a video-gamey superhero slot machine with none of the gritty realism of old-school D&D slots.

We don't seem to define basic terms like "slavery" and "good neighbor" in the same way. I don't want to get into semantics, so I'll bow out of this discussion now.

If one wants a reputation for helping others, one has to help others. That isn't slavery. That's someone willfully setting a goal and actively pursuing it. One could just as easy decide the benefit of a good reputation isn't worth the effort involved in building a reputation and willingly choose...