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Your way is anti-creativity. If metaplot is required to justify any changes to the setting than a) if your setting has a perfect starting scenario (Eberron), then you have to abandon that perfect starting date and explain what else changes as time progresses (technology, politics, new NPCs) and...

There have been significant retcons to the Eberron setting literally every time it has gotten an edition update. For your own sake, I’m glad you aren’t an Eberron fan, because there’s no way you’d be able to handle all of the retcons. If the destruction of the Core in Ravenloft made you hate...

Even with a +2 Laser Rifle our party’s Battle Smith deals less damage than the party’s Monk. This is using the 2014 rules and we’ve been playing since 2019. I respect that your experience has led to you forming a different opinion, but mine is that Artificers are far too weak and need serious...

I’m Gen Z. I think I can present a perspective unique to my generation. Granted, I grew up Mormon and most of my social group was Mormon, but I don’t know how much that would affect my experience in this matter. I got into D&D in 2016, when I was a freshman in high school. At first I hid my...

My post and the one I was quoting said nothing about how meaningful the choices were. And the choices being selfish or stupid doesn't make them less meaningful or present. It's pretty stupid and self-destructive in BG3 to drive a stake through Astarion's heart, or to decapitate Karlach, or to...

You could murder every single companion in Dragon Age: Origins except Morrigan. You could destroy the Holy Grail (sorry, Andraste’s Ashes) for a Dragon Cult, sacrifice a child or their mother just to let you sleep with a demon of lust, use Dwarven souls to create Golems, sell kidnapped people to...

Yeah, although I’m a fan of Goblinoids having Fey Ancestry, the PC race being humanoid and the monsters being fey is definitely weird to me. Eladrin have the same problem.

Yeah, I’ve been a big fan since they announced this change about 3 years ago. It adds a lot of intrigue and tragedy to their backstory. I always hated how a ton of monsters in the 2014 PHB had bite, claw, tail, and other melee attacks that did similar amounts of damage just of different damage...

“Archon” might work well as a term for the not-Sorcerer Kings. In various Gnostic groups it was the term for demonic rulers of the mortal world. I know there’s already a couple different types of creatures in D&D called Archons, but frankly I always found them boring and using the term to mean...

The highlight of the episode for me was the lich nonchalantly snapping his fingers to counterspell.

Yeah, Zamatra is probably the most interesting deity in the pantheon. She was a mix of inspirations, mostly from Dreaded Persephone, Gaia, Artimpassa, and a bit of the setting's Gnostic theme. The Xrytosians being aerial just made having an evil Mother Earth fit really well. Hmm. The...

I also recommend taking some inspiration from the Roman Republic/Empire. They declared aggressive expansionist wars in the name of self defense, the highest ranks of political office (Consul) were only achievable through military service, successful military campaigns were rewarded with personal...

I understand this sentiment and to an extent agree, but think it’s just inevitable that it end up this way. Orcs are a humanoid species that has a lot of similarities to humans. To me, the only obvious outcomes is they either become an always evil barbaric race (often built on racist/colonialist...

Kind of the opposite, actually. The creation myth for this setting is a bit convoluted, but to put it in simple terms, two evil gods, Ahriman and Yaldabaoth, murdered Ennoea and used Their essence to create the world.

I have conflicting feelings on this topic. I enjoy ending campaigns in fighting gods as much as the next person, but from a worldbuilding perspective I prefer my gods to be transcendent supreme entities that are difficult to prove even exist. In the setting I’m currently developing, the main...

Tapati the Flaming Lioness A golden lioness runs across the sky, endlessly hunting the moon. Her violent anger radiates from her yellow pelt, shedding sunshine on the world below. Though the inhabitants of Tibil depend upon her light for sustenance, she cares not. All that matters to the lioness...

There was a hint to the Parthians in the post (pouring molten gold down someone's throat is a way they punish captured enemy commanders). And they'll definitely be capable of doing a Parthian shot while flying on their pegasi.

Here's what I currently have for the Xrytosian religion. Aluhpet is a mix of the Indo-European sky gods, Horus, and a few other ideas. Zamatra is an evil, chthonic Mother Earth. As I mentioned in the OP, I want there to be 7 gods so each deity needs to have a pretty big portfolio. Aluhpet the...

I have a few different ideas for how to approach this. I'm showing my age, but in the Percy Jackson universe the Greek gods and their Roman equivalents are the same entities, but have split personalities based on how they were worshipped by different peoples. Mars is much more disciplined...

I've wanted to make a steppe nomad culture for a homebrew setting for a long time now, as I've always thought the various semi-nomadic pastoral peoples of the Eurasian Steppe were fascinating. I didn't just want to make an equivalent of the Mongol Empire, and also didn't want them to be one of...