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At work at the moment, otherwise I'd break out my copy of Inner Planes and look it up, but the only ones that come to mind bordering the Negative Energy Plane are the four Doomguard citadels in the Negative Quasi-Elementals. I do recall four towers bordering the Positive Energy Plane in the...

Don't have too much time to comment on the overall topic at the moment, but FFXIV's Heavensward expansion had the, admittedly minor, character of Hilda Ware, who was explicitly half-Hyur (human) half-Elezen (elf) and it's been confirmed that the various peoples of the world can and do produce...

Didn't really get to watch this live, as I'm getting used to a new job on the overnight shift, but very much not surprised that we're finally getting a proper Forgotten Realms setting guide (or rather, two). SCAG was getting pretty long in the tooth, and the 50th anniversary game edition update...

Blue dragons have a burrow speed, so they can easily get deep enough under the sands/earth that their coloration isn't much of an issue. The blue of their scales isn't going to be visible when they're "land sharking" their way several feet beneath the dunes. On top of that, they also had...

Mostly comes down to the color scheme - blue, but complemented with a yellow/tan/brown underside that looks like it would help camouflage it when flying amidst dust clouds and sand storms, plus a horn that could easily pass for a jagged rock sticking out of the ground or the side of a dune while...

Positive and Negative still exist, though they don't come up often. The 2014 DMG had an image showing them as "enveloping" the rest of the cosmology from "above" and "below" respectively (see below), and in the one of the recent preview videos, in the context of talking about how healing spells...

As I understand it, custom backgrounds are confirmed for the DMG.

Mechanics are one thing - a presence in books going forward is another. Saying "just use the 2014 half-elf/orc stats" only goes so far. They could have chosen to remove the warlock class from the '24 PHB and say "just use the 2014 warlock" too, and the argument that we haven't technically lost...

It's easy to claim satisfactory reactions when they very specifically never asked a survey question about the "Pick-a-Parent" sidebar or the exclusion of dedicated "half-elf" and "half-orc" species entries - it's akin to saying they had very satisfactory reactions to their choice to not include...

Can't speak to pre-3e lore, as I've never been much of a Greyhawk lore or drow lore aficionado, and my 1e-era lore in particular is spotty at best, but WotC put out a "Drow of the Underdark" book in 3.5e that was modeled after Greyhawk lore - namely including a chapter on the city of...

I imagine it'll be covered in some way in the DMG, probably as part of a "custom species" section like we got in 2014 (where the initial versions of aasimar and eladrin debuted) to parallel the custom background section we already know is coming. Now, precisely HOW they choose to implement any...

Your character presumably has a home town/city/nation too, but you don't need those details in the PHB to "complete" your character. That's setting information that changes from table to table and campaign to campaign, not core mechanical rules that can be reasonably assumed to apply pretty much...

Third party content designed for 5e is one thing, but even if TotV is still compatible at the start, that doesn't guarantee it will remain so over time as it grows into more and more of its own thing - see Pathfinder going from basically an update to 3.5e to its own distinct system. I think...

"Crafting should be a minigame." Flashbacks to SAO Abridged, where a blacksmith has to play a rhythm game, a fighting game, and a round of Space Invaders simultaneously to craft a longsword

Fair enough. I don't live in/near a desert (on the contrary, pretty sure the land my hometown is built on used to be a swamp), so I suppose I'm not too familiar with their seasonal cycles. Main point I was trying to make is that "storms" bring imagery of heavy rainfall, flooding, and frankly...

I mean, yes, that's precisely my point. The blue dragon has traditionally been a desert dweller - back in 3.5e they had spell-like abilities that let them destroy water and create illusions - desertification and mirages. The imagery here is all storms - pouring rain and raging winds. It's a...

Of mixed opinions on the blue... I like the design - quite a lot, actually - but it doesn't say "desert dweller" to me like the 3e design did. It's an awesome design for a blue-scaled dragon, but it doesn't quite say "blue dragon" to me... Feels more like a kind of "storm" dragon. Something...

Assuming I'm remembering how they lined up in the playtest correctly: Heavenly covered LG planes (Arcadia, Celestia, and Bytopia) Idyllic covered NG planes (Bytopia, Elysium, and the Beastlands) Exalted covered the CG planes (The Beastlands, Arborea, and Ysgard) So archons, being LG and native...

I'm not especially disappointed with the aasimar we got, per se, but I would have liked a set of lineage options paralleling the new tiefling. One of the main reasons I liked the first draft of the ardling, at least in concept, is because it created a distinction between "celestial" and...