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To be honest, I'm not unconvinced that most D&D players would be unhappy just buying 1e over and over again every 10 years.

The PDKs are being described as a having a much larger area than just Cormyr now. They are global, even if they have their seat of power in the Dales. Space isn't an issue. PDKs are also diplomats. They got bonuses to diplomacy and were polyglots. And I would guess they would act like Jedi...

I think it's probably closer to a timed exclusive. For example, I am going to wager the dhampir isn't going to remain exclusive to this, but maybe the backgrounds will.

The 2025 UAs started using the Stoplight system for rating. Green meant go, Red meant stop, Yellow meant proceed with caution. Until they psion UA, you could not leave a comment on a red or green response. So even so, it didn't matter why you were giving them the thumbs down, just that you were...

I think the issue was a lot of people gave it the red light treatment. Remember, you couldn't leave comments on red or green on that UA, only yellow. So a red vote for "I don't think the PDK should have a dragon at all" and "I don't think the dragon works as currently envisioned" WAS THE SAME...

My point was they are only interested in the feedback on the subclass, not the greater lore change. WotC does not playtest lore. They weren't concerned if people felt the knights of Cormyr x amethyst dragons was a betrayal any more than they cared about changing Ravenloft domains, making...

I keep feeling that there is a story we're not seeing because it's in the Forgotten Realms Adventure Guide, not the Player Guide and while the lore is linked, we're not supposed to be playtesting the lore. WotC wanted to know if the subclass fit the fantasy of a chivalrous knight and his...

WotC probably should have added a sidebar that says they were changing the lore, which has been my problem with the playtest system since Next. We get told what the mechanics are, but not the background for it. It's like a chef sticking a spoon of food on your mouth and telling you to say if...

How much of it was also "we wrote and developed a whole chapter in the Adventure Guide with this idea in mind and the time and energy to redevelop the whole thing would delay the book, so let's just gut the subclass and call it done."

Yup. Y'all thought you were vetoing the lore change and all y'all did was nerf the subclass.

It's as ridiculous as the idea that the Red Wizards, a notorious group of zealot arcane spellcasters dedicated to a tyrannical lich far to the East would show up in every town, city, and village selling potions and minor magical trinkets and not be chased out on a rail the second they showed up...

Cormyr and the Dalelands are neighbors, and I wager the lore was supposed to be how the PDKs have expanded their territory to protecting the Dalelands as well. Part of the problem is that the lore of everything outside the Sword Coast was mostly ignored, beyond a vague "things went back to...

Damn that's making me rethink the "I don't buy the special edition covers" thing I got going...

I don't doubt that the idea won't come back eventually, but it wasn't going to be in this book. They had a special setup where one subclass was tied to the five theme/settings in the adventure book. Winter Walker for Icewind Dale (cold + horror). Scion of the Three for Baldur's Gate. Oath of...

I think you misinterpreted what I was talking about. I want A Kara Tur to exist. I do not care if it is THE Kara Tur that was in the 2e box set. If names are bad translations and pig language, rename them. If there are bad stereotypes, remove them. If it makes sense to have two Japans, keep them...

I think the fact that Kara Tur is generally rather obscure at this point (the last time it got anything more than a passing mention was 30 years ago) and the fact its been a century since it was canonically described, you could do a LOT of revision while keeping the general theme of "Faeruns...

I'll be bet dollars to donuts that genasi are one ( four?) of them. They need an update even against MotM and played an important role in Calimshan. Either they will bring them back as four specific species or one species with four legacies like tieflings. .

I never said or thought free. The Mortuary wasn't free. I just didn't think they were going to put PC facing stuff in it. That said, I don't think anything here is going to be exclusive. Dhampir is a Ravenloft option and you know dang well any horror/Ravenloft book is going to have them. The...

Depends on what feedback WotC got on the survey. I wager, based on a lot of comments here and elsewhere, the two most common pieces of feedback they got was "Purple Dragon Knights shouldn't have dragon pets" and "PDK is too specific a concept for a subclass." (The latter being people who want to...

In short, there will still be Cormyr knights riding amethyst dragons, except you don't get to play one. Enjoy your second wind burat heal.