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It's also possible for your character's ability to walk to be a cantrip. Doesn't mean it should be.

Well, we agree on that much. I disagree about locking things like always active and non-magical innate water breathing and darkvision behind spell casts, though.

And how exactly is this not moving us back to a mix-and-match, pick your traits system for ancestry anyway?

Between the calls to turn species traits into feats and those calling to turn them into spells, we're rapidly approaching the point where we don't need dedicated species at all. Just spend all your other character customization options to reflect you character's ancestry - not like you're using...

The point I'm making is that you're taking something that was previously innate and non-magical and locking it behind a spell cast, which puts it at the mercy of whatever spell duration it ends up with and effects that dispel magic. Are species with wings going to need to cast the Fly spell in...

And every Sea Elf subsequently drowns the first time they go to sleep where they ostensibly live, because their water breathing spell expires or a cabal of evil sahuagin sorcerers quietly drop anti-magic shells over their homes.

I think Perkins/Crawford said something more recent than that - as in, within the past month or two. Something along the lines of they've already got the next setting release lined up and ready for announcement and that they were excited to talk about it once Planescape is out, presumably...

That too.

Seems to be a 1e Manual of the Planes thing... 2e's Planes of Chaos and 3e's Manual of the Planes both say only that, if any layers of Limbo exist, they aren't stable and don't play by any rules that layers on other planes follow, constantly forming out of the plane and remerging into the...

Limbo only has a single layer - it's all just Limbo. I think you're referring to various divine domains within Limbo, which is very much a different thing - more akin to the top layer of Ysgard being home to Asgard, Vanaheim, Alfheim, Jotunheim, Selune's Gates of the Moon, etc.

I think they've implied another setting release (whether single book or slipcase) next year, and given it will be the 50th anniversary, either Greyhawk or a proper Forgotten Realms guide would be my guess. Furthermore, as others have noted, the '24 DMG is said to contain a "sample setting"...

Moon elves are also known to have silver hair on occasion, so the claim that silver-hair is explicitly the reason for making the character a drow is dubious - particularly since the same description could also reasonably describe many generally elderly people whose hair color has faded just as...

Honestly, if Larian were to do another game based on a D&D IP, I think they might actually have the chops for a new Planescape game. Probably not a true sequel to Torment, per se, since the story of the Nameless One is pretty definitively concluded and should be left alone, but something in the...

Honestly, I'm of the opinion that gods (and their divine servitors, angels) generally shouldn't have alignments. Much easier to use figures like Zeus and Odin if you don't need to reconcile some of their actions in IRL mythology with whatever flavor of "Good" alignment they've been assigned, and...

Same mythology, but the Aesir/Vanir had a devastating war with each other at one point (IRL lore that has been more or less completely lost, but is referenced in at least one story we do have), so while they're allied now, that wasn't always the case. A quick look at an FR wiki also pulls up a...

They're essentially just two different divine realms, and if the top layer of Ysgard can contain Asgard, Vanaheim, Alfheim, and Jotunheim (very much a non-exhaustive list), I see no real reason why Arvandor and Olympus can't coexist as neighbors in the top layer of Arborea. Infinite planes, et al.

So far as I've heard, Celestial Eladrin are still a thing, at least as of Mord's Tome of Foes - it's supposedly mentioned in the Elf chapter that Feywild Eladrin (and through them basically all standard elves) are descended from fallen Arborean Celestial Eladrin, though I'd need to double check...

Pretty much this. The DM is expected to read the adventure they plan to run, whereas the players are emphatically not, and so all they're doing here is letting the DM know in advance and in no uncertain terms about something they will almost definitely want to go over with their players in...

Musteval was presumably drawn from the family name Mustelidae, since their appearance was originally described as ferret-like in the 3e Book of Exalted Deeds. Honestly, not sure why a rename was necessary, even with the decision to lean into the mouse-like appearance of the original artwork...

That would implicitly confirm that the Transcendent Order is still operating, whether Rhys is formally their Factol again or not. Brings us up to four Factions we can reasonably assume to be in the new version of Planescape: the Fated and the Fixers (via Golden Vault), the Incantifers (via the...