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For what it's worth, as of the 2e remaster, "half-elves" (renamed Aiuvarin) have been turned into a Versatile Heritage akin to how Pathfinder handles planetouched, so they can now be applied to any base ancestry, not just human. Likewise with "half-orcs", now called Dromaar.

Fair enough - never been a Dragonlance fan, so I freely admit that my understanding of the setting is not the strongest.

I couldn't care less about +2 to Charisma - I'm perfectly fine letting starting ASIs shift to character background or just be left floating, Tasha-style. I care about species traits. Things like Fey Ancestry, Skill Versatility, Trance and Elven Lineage (or the lack thereof, as appropriate). If...

A preview video on the new tieflings by Pointy Hat from a month or so back confirmed that the "everyone loves tieflings now" thing has been reverted.

Well, glad Crawford acknowledged "half-elves" and "half-orcs", at least. Since they're specifying that the '14 versions are still usable because nothing in the '24 PHB is "replacing" them, I wonder if that means the "Pick-a-Parent" system didn't make it in at all, or if it's just been allocated...

By all means, if running an adventure where the PCs are Vecna cultists interests you, then go for it. I guess all that I'm getting at is simply that every time I see a "turning X into an evil campaign" conversion, it always seems to involve either upending the base story structure or inverting...

Never really understood why "make X an evil campaign" necessarily needs to mean "now you're working for the campaign's big bad" or "it's the same story, but now the big bad is a righteous do-gooder you're out to take down". Just because the PCs are a group of bad guys doesn't mean you can't...

My future self came back to tell me all about the new PHB, but in doing so caused a butterfly effect that completely changed how the playtest went, so he's pretty much as clueless about how things are going to turn out as I am now. He's also got this cool sword that he never uses and keeps...

My father's side of the family is firmly Scottish, and when he was doing some digging along the family tree, he supposedly found a link to the ancient Egyptian Pharaoh/Queen Hatshepsut. The reality of the math is that after a certain number of generations (don't have the number off the top of...

So it's better because instead of just getting to be what they are, they instead get to choose which fraction of what they are overwrites the rest? A human uses the human mechanics because they are human. An elf uses the elf mechanics because they are an elf. A Khoravar has to choose which part...

Breaks out the combinatorics formulae Mathmatically, 6 choose 3 (that is, choose 3 values out of a set of 6 possible values, without accounting for the order they're chosen in) is 20 possible combinations. To enumerate:

You could have every elf in your campaign setting use human stats and still retain a distinct "elven" culture for them - no one is claiming otherwise - yet elves are still allowed to retain their own species mechanics, because people want elves to feel different than humans. Same with dwarves...

Haven't gone through it in full yet, but I'm very much enjoying what I've read so far.

Eh, I think a generic version of the Piety system could fit into the DM's Toolkit pretty easily - certainly not a full "here's a detailed list of benefits for every deity" like in Theros, but guidelines for building such a list and an example or two.

Never been particularly interested in Theros as a setting - it's fine, really, just not big on MtG stuff - so its gods don't do much for me, but as far as I'm concerned, the Piety system deserves to be a core tool for religious characters everywhere.

I mean, depends on where he is in his proverbial character arc. Apart from the death of Baldur and Ragnarok, Loki could pass as a character out of Looney Toons almost effortlessly, and even the former is basically a prank that went way too far. And his more explicitly villainous acts hint at...

I would also count more general mischief-makers - Jester from Critical Role's second campaign is a pretty good example of a Trickery Domain Cleric as part of a group.