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There is a sun, but the planet is tidally locked to its sun and the campaign’s world is on the perpetually dark side. The moon, which orbits the planet, reflects that sun’s light normally. There is a sun but it does not radiate light. It radiates something else. The surface of the moon is...

You're probably right about that. Yet, I feel that censoring words is not always the solution to fight a real problem. Oftentimes I wonder if it doesn't turn out to be more hurtful in the end; a form of radicalization of sorts. The issues behind "orcs", "phylactery" and "oriental" are all very...

In a way, I’m glad they didn’t choose something else and didn’t give-in to a group of people recuperating a word that has no pejorative meaning to start with. I mean, where I come from, « Virginie Orientale » is what we call the state of Virginia in the US when we need to specifically...

First, I would select a setting and a meta-region within that setting. Probably the Sword Coast in Forgotten Realms because BG3 and Honor Among Thieves and Drizzt. Also, we’re kind of there already. Make it a solid gazetteer book mixing geography, demography, cultures, and and plot hooks. No...

Which should be fine now too. I don’t need a statblock that is meant to represent a whole people, I need a statblock that represent an adversary. I’m not interested in having a universal orc entry in the MM as a monolithic people, I want an orc raider entry, and an orc champion, and an orc...

If you give them all the same stats, yeah. Still, I’d rather have an orc guard statblock and an elf guard statblock and an aasimar statblock than the same guard statblock but here with tusks, here with pointy ears, and one that glows… At this point I’d settle for orcs like lizardfolks...

Oh, the value of the books was never questioned! Once we agreed to update to the new rules, we didn't want to go halfway, and we each bought a PHB so we wouldn't have to fight over one book. We knew there would be a lot of rule referencing, more so even than if it was a new system altogether...

I feel that "because we're all suckers" is somewhat degrading, but it ain't far from the truth...

I'm sure there are others as well but yes, the point is that maintaining reality in limbo is a constant effort and the plane probably "attacks" it in myriads of new ways. I can also imagine that these town, existing for hundreds of generations at a time, are still short-lived and morphing on the...

I see limbo as a place where potential is present but unrealised. It's a "potential" that can be imagined by the gods (which can be a LOT of things!) but that still bound by their laws and understanding. Only, its a place where such "laws" are difficult to impose both in space and time, hence...

Me and my group have never felt so unexcited about a new release of D&D. Yet, me and my group have never purchased new D&D product faster, and in large quantity. These statements are both true and seem to be in the trend of what's going on.

Thanks At this point I had assumed something along those lines. Regardless of my personal opinion about removing humanoid species from having specific entries in the MM, the rest is a logical and consequent implementation that, at first glance, seems very well done. This goes along the artwork...

Probably, 1) They didn't want humanoids in monster statblocks. 2) They wanted lizardfolks in monster statblocks. 3) Therefore, lizardfolks needed to change type. They could have gone many ways, they chose earth elemental for reasons that might be conceptual (a connection with earth element as...

Agreed Because if either WotC or (part of) the D&D community is telling me "if you use orcs as enemies. you are a racist", I'm not laughing. This itself is an hyperbole, but racism is one of the most ignoble of moral misconduct these days, and people don't like to be called racist and react...

Which to me, this resonates to « goblins and hobgoblins can get killed with impunity and deserve a place in the monster manual because a goblin is no longer a person » which is… weird. By removing all the humanoids from having an entry in the MM, it increases the contrast between humanoids and...

Because although they are made-up, people identify to them because… 1) the creator makes it clear that there is a direct relation with a certain type of people or ethnic group. The harm may not have been intentional but the direct relation was. 2) the community makes it clear that there is a...

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Not really. At this point, bakers, librarians and shop-keepers are becoming an hyperbole to say that an orc commoner shouldn’t be that different from a commoner of any other PC species and therefore we don’t need a separate orc commoner stat block - and by extension - that an orc warrior...

I have a feeling that my opinion on this isn’t going to be popular, but orcs not having dedicated stat blocs in the MM since they now are a full-fledged player-character species makes sense. Base-game PC species are not «monsters»; they are NPCs and require generic NPC blocs. That was a...

I was going say something along these lines. Some games are designed to work with props, usually a map and minis, running on rules that allow players a certain level of tactical analysis but also dependant on definitive and precise awareness of the environment (which works best with visual...