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The Spelljammer PC races, BTW, are interesting in that you can be a construct (autognome), monstrosity (thri-kreen), or ooze (plasmoid). The poor giff in my party has been the target of hold person by default several times.

I think it says a lot about the designers that they decided to give the owlbear a 5 foot fly speed.

Another aspect I just thought of. As a DM I already have a lot of things on my plate. I don't want to have to make up the lore for every single thing on my own. I'd rather have a baseline to deviate from if I choose as opposed to no context whatsoever for what a creature is. As for the idea of...

I'll admit I'm a lore junkie. I enjoy reading not only lore for the current edition but lore for every edition. Some of my favorite resources for DMing inspiration are fan sites like Power Score RPG and A Walk Through the Planes as well as podcasts like The Dungeoncast, which all go over lore...

I could live with this if at least some of this excised lore finds itself in more creature type specific books like the ones released for dragons and giants, but overall I'm not a fan of removing context for how creatures are commonly associated with others in the D&D multiverse. If the demon...

I have to say that I'm not liking the new approach to art and lore. The old "glamor shots" approach to art took up less page space and made it easier to show the players what exactly they were fighting. The lore section shown for the gargoyle is also massively reduced to early 4E levels of...

BTW, for those unaware the D&D 4E Gamma World spin-off game basically had as its premise a bunch of alternate Material Plane Earths combining into one amalgamated world because the dimensional walls separating them were destroyed.

Me and my girlfriend are in our mid-thirties and we both like watching certain online personalities play video games, mostly because we like to either hear commentary if one person is playing the game or banter if there's more than one person. Generally it's something we like to put on while...

Here's my wishlist for what I would want to see in books for the current top 3: Fey Updates for the eladrin, fairy, and harengon. An overview of the fey courts and their archfey. A handful of Domains of Delight. Flavorful Feywild themed magic items like the ones from 4E's Heroes of the...

I honestly had included Beasts in the poll for completion's sake, but that's a pretty cool idea. Maybe the primal spirits could also have a connection to the Beastlands, too.

I'm a big fan of the recent monster type lore books, Bigby's Glory of the Giants in particular. I really enjoy how the books go into detail on the type of creature and offer a lot of DM tools and inspiration. That said, which monster type that hasn't had a dedicated book would you like to see...

Has the 5E concept of the First World (first introduced in Fizban's) come up in the thread yet? It seems particularly applicable, what with powerful dragons in particular having linked "echoes" of themselves in multiple Material Plane Worlds, as well as portals in their lairs to other worlds.

There's actually been a number of canceled Mega Man games that have been unearthed by fans in the last decade, most of which seem to be pretty major deviations from the original games. For example, at one point a first person shooter Mega Man X reboot called Maverick Hunter was in development...

I was wondering what the criteria are. Mega Man in particular is a weird franchise in that 2000 to 2010 had a huge number of new Mega Man video games, but since 2011 there's only been two new games (one of which was an obscure mobile game). Also since then there's been one comic series, a...

To get this slightly closer to the emphasis on the Material Plane in the OP, I've just discovered that Eberron: Rising from the Last War states that the world of Eberron is the "heart of its own Material Plane" in addition to its own cosmology apparently existing somewhere in the Ethereal Plane...

If that's the case then why was Spelljammer 5E even made? I'm also not against older content, but I don’t think publishing new rules for a setting and then abdicating presenting the setting in favor of hoping that fans will look to pdfs of old books or fan wikis is a good strategy, especially...

I'm honestly a bit surprised that WotC allowed BG3 to be so full of M-rated content, even before the shift towards becoming more inoffensive. If I have one criticism of BG3 it's that it can sometimes feel tryhard edgy (especially the Dark Urge storyline).

That does make it like older versions of the Plane of Shadow, which also connected multiple settings. I know it's not the intent, but as someone who primarily DM's Spelljammer I weasel around the "only one Feywild" statement by saying that the Feywild and Shadowfell are like the Material Plane...

The Planescape 5E adventure Turn of Fortune's Wheel has a baernoloth called the Scholar who shares a one of four secrets with the party, the most relevant for this discussion being: The book also says whether each secret is actually true or not is up to the DM, but one of the secrets is...