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Parts of a Pizza A pizza includes the following parts. Bread. A pizza has a base made of bread. Cheese. A pizza is topped with cheese. Tomato Sauce. A pizza has tomato sauce on it. That's a list of ingredients, not a recipe for baking a pizza. Just like saying "three abilities, two skills, a...

I don't know what you're talking about. There are no rules for DM's creating backgrounds in the PHB. The 2024 PHB says, "your DM might offer additional backgrounds as options." That's literally all it says about DMs and backgrounds. If a recipe for chocolate chip cookies ends by saying, "When...

I'm reading that same text, and I see no player-facing rules for creating custom backgrounds anywhere on any of the linked pages. Chapter 2 says: "You can choose any of the backgrounds detailed in chapter 4, and your DM might offer additional backgrounds as options." That's it. Those are the...

That's certainly a fair observation. I would never try to argue that every DM uses random tables, or that every DM who does roll on random tables accepts the results. I would only observe that some DMs do still roll on random tables and accept the results, whatever they may be.

In that case, allow me to rephrase my point, as well: I mentioned random encounter tables because I have used them and seen them in use at multiple tables in the recent past. So, to answer to your rhetorical question, "No, random encounter tables aren't a thing no one uses anymore."

More people use randomized setting elements than use the non-existent AI DM you've mentioned several times now. When discussing practical matters, I prefer to reference things I've seen in the here and now. I save hypotheticals for abstract discussions. But that's just me.

None of the language in your post appears anywhere in the 2024 PHB. Those are all just things you're assuming based on the way things worked in the 2014 rules. Yes, the DM can invent any rules they want. No, the 2024 PHB doesn't include any guidance for DMs wanting to create custom backgrounds...

Agreed. The Bastion events table is like a wandering monster table that randomizes encounters for verisimilitude. If a DM decides to utilize rules for random encounters, the DM shouldn't also get to change a friendly encounter into a hostile one on a whim. The entire point of the randomization...

Those aren't rules for creating custom backgrounds. Those are rules explaining how to apply what's written in a background description to a character you're creating, plus a statement saying a DM might provide you with more background options. Compare that to the "Customizing a Background"...

No, there are no rules for creating custom backgrounds in the Player's Handbook. Your statement is potentially misleading to people who don't have the book yet. "Itemizing what a background comprises" isn't a rule for creating custom backgrounds, just like itemizing what elements weapons have...

I'm not sure why you're quoting me here. I was responding to post a claiming most lands in Faerun had human majorities. I replied with examples of lands in Faerun with non-human majorities. Of course my hand-picked examples of lands with non-human majorities aren't going to be multicultural...

It's probably not what the OP is looking for but... ...a Githyanki (resistance to Psychic damage) under the effects of a Feign Death spell (resistance to all damage except Psychic damage).

Coming soon from ChatGPT: a campaign setting with nothing but AI-majority kingdoms.

The Forgotten Realms only appear humanocentric in the 3e FRCS because that book focuses on the human-majority lands of Faerun. Supplemental campaign setting material includes plenty of lands with non-human majorities. For example: Dwarf-majority lands like the Dwarfholds of the North, the...

Good catch. I think you're right about those being stat block references. I missed that because the names were capitalized, not boldfaced they way they are in the 2014 rules. (I don't think I've actually seen yet how 2024 formats the names of stat blocks.)

I'm glad none of that causes dissonance to your mind, and I suspect you're in the majority on that. My mind works differently, so much of what you wrote does cause dissonance for me. I'll put my explanation in a spoiler block, because it's lengthy and somewhat off topic:

That's helpful for people who are reading the rules or who are playing by post (assuming anyone who's visually impaired has a screen reader which somehow calls out capitalized words; I don't use screen readers, so I don't actually know if that's a thing or not). But when I'm communicating to my...

When I'm using a game to tell a story, I get cognitive dissonance every time I have to reference the rules using terminology which is completely unrelated to what's going on in the narrative. For me, the names of rules elements matter. Of course, I realize other people process language...

Baskets and mirrors have no agency in the game world; they don't perform actions of narrative consequence on behalf of players. In the 2024 rules we've seen so far, only player characters, their pets (familiars, etc.), and their Bastions can do that. When a rules element is a means players use...

I can only answer based on what I've seen published in official WotC-published campaign sourcebooks. (The Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide simply states Halruaan wizards were able to "propel their kingdom safely" into Abeir.) If your game uses setting canon not published in WotC sourcebooks, then...