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I guess, like Schrödinger's cat, we won't know until we open it. I am curious what the monster/individual villain ratio will be, as there have been indications that a good number of individual foes will be appearing.

Honestly, it makes sense, given the how the 2024 PHB presents orcs. It would be completely reasonable to have a homeland where orcs of every alignment could be from. And that area is rough and hardly mapped - there's plenty of room in the Spine of the World and the Ice Spires between the...

Doesn't matter if it's a strawman or not, doesn't matter who needs to prove if it's good or not - the question has been posed. Can you contemplate the mere possibilty of it being good? Yes or no?

But you're essentially rejecting it without even tasting the food. Since the books aren't out and all we have are previews, it's like you're standing outside the window looking at the menu and going "Nah, Swiss-Swazi will never work. It ignores the previous food lore of both cultures, and the...

Have you ever been to a fusion restaurant? Or do just you pooh-pooh the idea because they're combinations you hadn't thought if before?

But it's also not too much to deny a possible team up either. You could argue all day that an oil-based puree of a nut-like legume and a stabilized mix of milk and an ancient Mesoamerican drink shouldn't go together, but in the end Reese's Cups still exist. Either they're going to explain it in...

A very good point. Also, a Cult of the Dragon campaign allows a DM to bring in and feature dragons in a way that most other campaigns just can't, and then use them in interesting ways. Yeah, you'll still have metallics being allies and mentors of the party, and chromatics being antagonists, but...

There's a first time for everything. And there are, as I said, powerful forces/creatures/deities that might want him back for some reason of their own. If say Tiamat wants him back, she'll find a way.

Ok, that takes out the second option, but the first is still very much valid. Also, good to hear that we'll be seeing stat blocks for powerful individual villains for the setting!

There are still plenty of ways in lore to bring people back. Even liches who have had their phylacteries destroyed. Especially ones who were famous and powerful and whom powerful forces/creatures/deities might want back for some reason of their own. And we don't even know if he's back anyway -...

I mean, they have taken a first step in that with Calimshan in the upcoming FR books. I don't doubt that they are using it as a trial balloon to gauge if further exploration into non-Western-inspired settings is viable.

I'm guessing they'll still be there as a major antagonist, just not as a faction you can gain rep towards. I mean... they are pretty unsubtly Evil with a capital "E". Even the Zhents and the Red Wizards (especially if the faction for the latter is a splinter group) have some wiggle room in being...

Awesome! Can't wait to see how they worked this in, and it definitely makes the heretofore staid PDKs into something a lot more interesting.

I didn't speculate on the probability, just that it would be funny if he did.

Right, its just a bunch of clickbait speculation sprinkled with a few things we actually already know.

It would be really funny if Ed says something like "I really like the direction they've taken with the Purple Dragon Knights, so I'm officially endorsing the changes."

Yeah, it's just so youre not stuck with nothing but humans in the later games. Honestly, the only advantage that non-humans have is multiclassing (the other advantages are pretty minimal) and even the humans can be dual-classed on their end. I've often played with a human ranger dual classed to...

The Knights of Malta are the Knights Hospitallar he mentioned. Their full official name is "Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, of Rhodes and of Malta"

Except the party has no idea of what they are getting into. Pity about that magically binding contract, though....

Maybe the tavern's cellar is really spacious? And has stalactites for some reason? Being a bit serious, it could be a cave being used as a wine cellar or cheese storage (explains the rats) or something similar for a tavern. Although likely not lol. (Which gives me an amusing idea for a...