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You can't just "make" folklore. It has to develop organically from the folk. When you "make" folklore you just end up with "intellectual property."

Geezer, koot, alter kocker; my particular favorite is "Gammon."

A male hag makes no sense; the whole reason why hags are repulsive and evil is because they're based on patriarchial folklore that sees women beyond childbearing age as abject monstrosities. Introducing egalitarianism and feminism gets rid of the point. A "male hag" is just a naughty word senator in...

I suppose a forum for RPG games is probably the second most likely place you're going to find stoner rock enthusiasts

Trees are incredibly orderly systems operating according to logic with lots of disparate parts that even grow in a specific almost fractal pattern. Plants are math. Life is math.

The thing about this so-called "muscular" neutrality is that I can't see it not becoming "lawful neutral" after a while, it primarily talks about good and evil but how would you determine the right "balance" or "superposition" of good and evil in the universe without a codified, lawful...

Does your world not have gryphons or perytons too?

Are there stats for pipeweed I can back-port into my 5e game?

We have ample evidence that evolution simply doesn't work in D&D; there's no relation between the clearly hominid dwarves and elves and gorillas, for instance. If we can accept the existence of gorillas, humans and grimlocks, can't we accept the existence of tyrannosauruses and galluses?

Why do you feel the need to justify dinosaurs in your campaign worlds but no one bats an eye at pigeons, hawks and chickens?

Do you have Prince Albert in a can?

Effectively, Eberron is the only setting to explicitly name and stat out "magewrights", that is, "blue collar working magicians crafting magic goods or selling magic services", but the default D&D setting implies their presence in the background. Maybe in smaller numbers than in eberron, but if...

We think of dungeons and dragons as medieval fantasy but forgotten realms is much more like the early modern era, and I think that is a little bit more explicit in the 15th century DR. Especially for people who started with 5th edition, I definitely think that there's more of a Renaissance...

Has anyone else mentioned that they're a bit confused about the lore of the princes of elemental evil now? The two fire-adjacent ones, Gazra and Chilimbra, seem to be interchangeably referred to as elementals, fiends and gods, and conspicuously terms like "primordial" or "archomental" are...

and they say wokeness isn't ruining D&D

Half-Orcs and Half-Elves are synthetic beings in a dialectic sense, though it is up to the player to determine which part of their ancestry is the thesis and which is the antithesis. Something new and unique can come from the combination of two disparate parts.

Just chiming in here to remind everyone that as a mixed-race person the best expression of half elves I've seen in any fiction is Eberron's Khoravar half-elves, a distinct "creole" half elf culture which is something I wish other fantasy settings and authors would explore. Something similar...

Not only can you romance a NPC mindflayer, there's another NPC mindflayer who seems to be in some sort of romantic partnership with a hobgoblin, you can turn into a mindflayer and continue romancing your (non-mindflayer) party members AND you can even turn one party member into a mindflayer too!

Blorbo from my show!