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"Corporations are people, my friend."

I hope the success of Caves of Qud makes WotC revisit gamma world.

DungeonMaster and DeMiurge kinda sound similar

I think you and I are broadly of the same mind. Maybe like 50% of the book is kingdom rules, 40% of the book is updated Cerilia and then 10% of the remainder is suggesting ways and plots to work the rules into other settings ("You could be starting a colony in Q'barra", "You have inherited...

Honestly, it'd be best to present it as a new setting but a wink and a nod and some easter eggs should imply maybe it's the world of Cerilia in the future or something under a new name. Maybe something happened to swap the power from godly bloodlines to some other mechanism.

Birthright's lore limited its country rulership system to a select number of nobles and races. The setting would need a massive rework to begin with to make room for lots of the class and flavor options that have been added since 2e, but plenty of players would love to rule a country but not...

In all seriousness, while I have no connection to Birthright itself, a new setting and gameline that goes beyond the bastion system to include running an entire country and integrating it into player power could be really interesting, and it could also be backported into other settings...

That's uncommon in film but very common in literature (and bear in mind, most "isekai" media are actually Japanese prose "light novels", or novellas, sometimes then adapted to manga or anime). A "Bildungsroman", even in English, is "a book about a kid growing up." A "roman a clef" is "a thinly...

Every setting that does not take place inside Plato's Cave is technically a form of isekai

"Birthright" is associated with some Israeli propaganda programs.

That's because 3e included deliberate trap choices that 3.5e did not fully extirpate. Had 3.5e been balanced like 5e, the characters would be, on average, just as superheroic.

D&D should embrace the medium and present us with a truly two dimensional world like Flatland

Been done.

You know what makes me feel heroic? Being told "no, you don't cast spells, you have spell like abilities"

The 2024 DMG's writeup on the study action is a good rule of thumb for which skills to use for creature knowledge. From there, I use "passive knowledge" by analogy to "passive perception"; a cleric with a +5 in religion is assumed to have knowledge of a monster equivalent to what they might get...

While I wasn't a fan of it, I think Radiant Citadel sold well and I believe there's definitely a hunger for D&D set in non-European or non-Western settings. I would not at all be shocked if we saw revitalizations of "Oriental Adventures" (certainly under a different name), Al-Qadim or who knows...

Yeah, like, as a huge fan of capeshit Eberron is 100% the closest to a superhero setting D&D gets. Contemporary superhero comics are characterized, I'd say, by an urban setting that itself encompasses all genres of speculative fiction, in addition to having larger-than-life protagonists with...

Using the shield makes up for dumping dex, at least, though if you're taking PAM you might want to have an odd dex score so you can receive a little bump. You could manage a respectable 17 AC with 10 dex and 20 cha; other SAD paladins are squishier.

Take a shot every time I come into a thread where half-elves are relevant and say "I'm mixed-race and I think the Khoravar are the best way to handle the concept!" I'm very glad and almost touched that they are being included in the game with such prominence now.

Magic initiate druid: shillelagh, polearm master, dueling style and the shield makes for a very dangerous SAD charisma paladin