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As I said, I suspect a fear chain that will allow defilers of other classes to exist. There may also be preserver feats that augment healing and growth so that characters not druids can preserve. Something like a feat that can allow a wizard (for example) to defile vegetation to gain a bonus to...

I wager there will be feats that factor in too, especially for other types of casters other than sorcerer. This is the "my identity is defiler" and can draw from creatures and not just the environment..

Dark Sun never hit that vibe. If it had, I'd have been all over it. Can I interest you in Primeval Thule instead?

I realize this is also a lost cause here, but Dark Sun already was reinvented in 4e (and 3e Dragon mag) and they were fine except for the few people who can't accept ACs go upwards these days. We know there are templars, gladiators, preservers, defilers and psionics. That sounds like they are...

I kept telling everyone they didn't put it in the 2024 DMG for no reason.

Yup. Don't care. You have the 2e books already. Play that. I'm looking forward to hopepunk, but considering two of the options in the UA are defiler and templar, I don't think they are shying away from edgelord options.

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Lost a word there apparently. I meant to say "end of the third age". As in, Lord of the Rings being beginning of humanity ascending as the other races diminish. LotR kinda happens at the fulcrum. Humanity isn't strong enough yet but the other great races (elves and dwarves) are declining. But...

The quarry was on the skateboard, not her The poster map from In The Cage: A Guide to Sigil

Also not a bad design choice, assuming you still want everyone in their own little corners (this is humanville, the next kingdom over is elfland, and beyond that, there be dragon men). The benefit is that you can expand infinitely as long as the map keeps growing, but the fact you still start in...

Well, that's one way to phrase what happened to incorporate new females into the tribe...

I think the fatal flaw with a humanocentric world building is the fact that you world has to strictly limit what else is in the world. The classic AD&D model is that humanity is in ascendency, demi humans (elves, dwarves, etc) are in decline and withdrawn from the greater world (gnomes and...

Well... It depends on the book. Ravenloft's art was very Victorian (without firearms) and there is a Planescape art with the Lady of Pain chasing hoodlums on a skateboard. (The hoodlums, she is floating). The Realms always has a more Renaissance theme than strictly medieval. More Italian city...

Jermey said in the video about aberrations that gith who spent time away from the planes and lived on the material plane long enough (generations, not in ones lifetime) became humanoids and got the abilities of the pc species rather than the abilities in the Monster Manual (and were...

So this is D&D's take on it in 2024, using the Realms as the example. Humanoid's have no defined alignment tendencies. They can be as good or as evil as their society and morals allow. A drow from Mezzobaranzan has the same odds of being evil as a human from Thay has. But they also have the...

Which is why it feels so disjointed. Phandelver is great because you can go.so many different directions from it (Storm Kings Thunder, Light of Xarysis, Dungeon of the Mad Mage, even Decent into Avernus all fall within that sweet spot for levels). The Shattered Obelisk feel like just another...

I feel this thread is going to go only one way...

Sorta. I think they could have done more with the Black Spider working with a more powerful monster (like a dragon or giant or fiend) to keep the vibe of "classic monster manual" going. Icespire adds a bunch of unconnected plots and side quests rather than a proper expansion. I would have liked...

Agreed. Dark Sun can keep many of the same themes but remove a lot of the edgelord crap. I know it's heresy, but Ravenloft 5e did that well in the "removing all the grimdark without removing the horror" elements.