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1E had monks because karate and ninja stuff was a big craze in the U.S. in the 1970s. It had spaceships and laser guns because some people thought it was fun. It has orcs and halflings and rangers because of Tolkien and dinosaurs because of Jules Verne and Arthur Conan Doyle and vampires because...

I can’t think of ANY past 5E adventure where any characters have ever done this, so, again, I’m failing to see the big, “anachronistic” issue that “species” is causing.

I don't understand why people make an issue of this one. Why is this assumed to be an in-game term? It's a rules term. People aren't saying "Character Class", "Background", "Feat", or "Ability Scores" in-game. Why are we assuming that everyone in the fiction is suddenly saying "Species"?

Yeah, I stand very much corrected on this issue. There's no way this could be anything but Dark Sun.

Playing the game, it 100% would never have occurred to me to have sex with the mind flayer UNTIL the game put the option on the table, at which point I immediately was like "Well, let me just save right here because obviously I have to know."

Did you play it? The mind flayer in question is amoral and trying to emotionally manipulate the protagonist in any way it can, in this case by faking emotional attraction and bonds. The protagonist doesn't start off equipped with exhaustive knowledge of how mind flayers work. BG3 is being held...

This isn't correct. They said they were doing both, but not for Campaign four. Campaign four is D&D (2024 rules). The "both" applies to Age of Umbra and other content.

I very much applaud the idea of trying to place players at tables where the playstyle most appeals to them. It sounds logistically very hard to maintain, but if successful I could definitely see it mitigating some of the table issues that have plagued CR. I kinda wonder who ends up at which...

Shakespeare's Othello, Merchant of Venice, and Titus Andronicus all heavily feature racial prejudice as central themes, and embody the racial prejudices of their society despite his racially "other" characters being more humanized than is typical of writings in his era. Othello ends with the...

I fully appreciate the "not interesting or engaging" part, but I'm confused about the "not realistic" part, considering that widespread racial prejudice is exactly how people behave IRL.

I think there are two parallel conversations happening in this thread: 1. Should/do biologically evil species exist in the game? 2. Should/do people in the game display prejudice against certain species, regardless of whether said species are actually biologically evil?

I think it entirely varies based on your particular campaign. The upcoming two Forgotten Realms sourcebooks should give us an idea of how these species are viewed "canonically" by the general public in Faerun these days. WotC had input into how these species were portrayed in Baldur's Gate 3...

Oh no. Now I'll never not see that.

I think the only anthology book where the included linking material 100% works and actually enhances the individual adventures is Ghosts of Saltmarsh (which also has suggestions on including the Tales from the Yawning Portal adventures if desired). I can't imagine using the suggested framing...

I know we've all said it before, but man, just, I mean...what happened with that one? It seemed like a hard thing to fumble but they really, really blew it.

I have no problem with these things existing (I really like the adventure seeds included in Explorer's Guide to Wildmount, for example) but to me they're nice idea tools for my homebrew. They not a replacement for a fully-realized pre-written adventure.

While I appreciate those adventures in terms of de-mystifying the way homebrew adventures can look and feel for your home group, they're not at all what I personally want from a published WotC adventure.

Perkins definitely wouldn't make that claim, but I really can't think of anyone who touches his track record specifically in terms of long-form, campaign-length adventures (and yes, his name is also on some that I consider poor). There are a definitely a good amount of people I'd turn to for a...

I agree we're gonna get another iteration of Strahd & Ravenloft for 5.5, but we're still too close to Curse of Strahd ReVamped (2020) and Van Richten's Guide (2021) to circle back just yet. We'll get it before 2030, but not in 2026. I wonder if WotC has decided to move away from the...

I kinda wonder if the third thing (I refuse to call it a DLC since you can't download it) might be Underdark-related. They haven't really used it much since Out of the Abyss (2015).