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Yeah . . . that's the beginning of the epic fantasy trope of the ancient empire that settled the "continent", then fell into points of light . . . EDIT: Well, after the IRL Roman Empire I suppose . . . :) But really, there would be more language drift in Gondor and especially in Eriador...

Need some help from the community! I run an after-school D&D Club for 6-8th graders (11-13 yrs old) and we have a dire shortage of DMs! Weird, I know! ;) I want to start "training" willing tweens to have the confidence to run games for their peers, so I can sit back, monitor behavior, and...

Another thing to keep in mind when comparing the real world to the fantasy world of D&D . . . Within a local region of the real world, there are limited languages being spoken . . . at least in regions without a large degree of immigration. Barring trade languages and immigrant communities, how...

The middle-earth bestiary is a lot smaller than the D&D bestiary. So, yeah, if languages are matched to species, there's gonna be less to worry about in middle-earth.

Vampires are immortal beings who not only began their existence as mortals, but exist within mortal society. Human language changes because humans, not because vampires. If the vampires in your setting have a "secret vampire language", I would assume it would be more static than the mortal...

I'm running a LotR 5E campaign right now, and we are having a lot of fun with languages. The party is a mostly dwarven expedition delving into Moria, to begin the retaking of the ancestral dwarven home. None of my players created characters that speak either of the elvish languages . . . and...

Are druids a type of mystic character that appear in different cultures . . . or are they an organization with their own distinct culture? Originally, if your standard D&D campaign was a pseudo-medieval Europe analog . . . which was the original base assumption back in the day . . . druids WERE...

D&D isn't and shouldn't be a "reality simulator", but a degree of verisimilitude goes a long way to making our fantasy worlds more immersive. Of course, how detailed and complicated do we make various systems to get there . . . the answer is different for different gamers, which is why we have...

D&D handles languages poorly, yes . . . it is one of the areas of the game that hasn't got a lot of attention as the game has evolved over the years. It comes down to the concept of "race", which D&D is moving away from, but still has legacy issues remaining. Germans speak German, Spaniards...

You ask for examples and citations and then dismiss the examples and citations others have provided because, somehow in your view, Planescape shouldn't count and folks who disagree with your view are "cherry-picking". YOU are cherry-picking by trying to tell us what lore counts and what doesn't...

Okay. You win. It's not just your particular take on things or preference, but cold, hard fact. Despite several folks in thread giving you counter examples you seem to dismiss for odd, personal reasons. I'm out.

Here is the part where I'm disagreeing with you and pushing back. I find your arguments strange and your need to pushback confusing. Demons are things and not living species . . . in your view. Not in D&D canon of any edition. Within D&D lore over the editions, demons have very much had gender...

I'm sure it is all complicated, but I assumed paper . . . maybe books are printed in the US, but paper (and other supplies) are imported. Various factors have been pushing prices on everything up for a while now, but the impending tariffs are likely to cause the price of EVERYTHING to get more...

Hmm, let me try again . . . and maybe I am misunderstanding your points . . . In classic D&D lore, of course the marilith was a female only demon. I don't think the vrock was male only, but maybe some past D&D supplement actually described them that way, I'd buy that with a credible reference...

Oh, I'm definitely missing part of the conversation due to the ignore feature . . . I guess what I'm trying to get at here . . . Embracing the new direction of WotC's lore and art direction with the marilith, medusa, hag, etc is a separate issue . . . for me at least . . . than whether demons...

I have. Multiple times. Of course, we're closing in on 1000 posts in the thread, so there's been a lot of drift and a lot of cycling back. It is the way of things. Are demons gendered, or should demons be gendered, is a different question than, does the marilith need to be only be a six-armed...

Need to eat? To bring in nourishment like you or I, or NEED to eat, pyschospiritually . . . whether it be the flesh of mortals or weird demon crops farmed on the 223rd layer of the Abyss . . . This argument overall is getting into the weeds and into ridiculous levels of silliness (although I...

Really? Yes, all of that sounds like potential good storytelling. The idea of demonic farms, demonic armies needing supply chains . . . yes, all sounds interesting to me. But in TTRPG stories about war . . . demonic or otherwise . . . those details are often overlooked. Which is okay, but...

Privatization of the US Postal Service and tariffs on all of our traditional trading partners . . . EVERYTHING is about to get more expensive. Games getting more expensive sounds like a "first world problem", and it is, but that also means that as businesses struggle to maintain customers at...

Dude, all is canon and nothing is canon. Relax. Planescape is part of the greater tapestry of D&D lore, whether you are personally familiar with it or not, whether you care for it or not. Again, relax man! This isn't an academic debate, this is simply a bunch of nerds fighting over what is or...