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Do you think everyone with the scout Background occasionally travelled with two friendly druids?

So why are you confused by the idea of a noble knowing Draconic? It says right there why this particular noble does!

Okay, seriously, it is worth actually reading the descriptions of the Backgrounds given, because every one of them explains exactly why the character with that Background learned that particular language.

Yeah...I'm realising that a lot of people haven't...

This would be good too. I mean, look, everyone's version of D&D is different. In my setting, I treat the 'racial' languages as the names outsiders give to the language families spoken by certain cultures. It's "Orcish" because orcs speak it (or variations of it). But not every orc or group of...

Again, I don't think that's implied? To continue the analogy, there are other countries where French is an official or widely-spoken language, and no one would assume people from there were good at cooking (or conform to any of the other stereotypes associated with French people). Saying "the...

Yes, I'd have preferred if they'd chosen examples like these tbh. But when I was reading it for the first time, I thought that actually some of them were initially counter-intuitive, then I went "oh yes, of course!" when I read the descriptions, because I saw how they fit in with some of the...

I mean, no one said they were? It's like...French cuisine has been historically regarded as superior. Any elite chef trained before the 21st Century might have picked up a little French just from working in the finest restaurants. That doesn't mean that all French people are amazing cooks and...

I mean, it is worth reading the descriptions of the Backgrounds in the context of the "[X]s of Many Worlds" sections, since Backgrounds are obviously meant to be, to some extent, setting specific. Not all gnomes have to be artificers, and not all orcs have to be gladiators, but in some of the...

The justifications for each language in the sample backgrounds fluff really appealed to me for some reason! I like the implicit worldbuilding, and that's a neat thing I hope they run with when they (presumably?) do setting-specific backgrounds. It feels like a good place to put that. Stuff like...

Fantasy RPGs, as a genre, tend to have concrete rules for the following things, almost exclusively: Magic powers Terrifying monsters Murdering people with sharp things who are, at the same time, trying to do the same to you Why these three things and (for the most part) only these three...

Damage resistance/immunity is taken into account in CR - it basically counts their hit points as double for defensive CR purposes, but only if they're relativity low CR monsters. At higher level, everyone has magic weapons or spells. This is one instance where bounded accuracy breaks down...

Also, it's still relatively dark in Wildspace - lots of the creature statblocks seem to have Darkvision. Like the Underdark, there's flavour about glowing fungi and so on, and the art always looks bright and clear, but it's still not daylight.

They did that for Van Richten's Guide and it wasn't well received. The current paradigm is likely to remain in place for the forseeable future, based on what they've said in articles and interviews. That means most (unnamed) Humanoids and other intelligent creatures are 'Any Alignment' unless...

According to the interviews with Crawford and Perkins, the "Astral Plane" includes both Wildspace and the Astral Sea. Perkins pointed out that astral literally means "of the stars", so it makes sense for Wildspace - being space - to be part of that plane, metaphysically speaking. I think, by...

A lot of Athasian critters in the bestiary! And the contents of the adventure book shows the party going to Doomspace (which was labeled as "Athasspace" in the picture on the since-edited D&D Beyond article) and has references to fighting in arenas. In other words, Dark Sun confirmed! Sort of...

I have to admit that it does bug me a little bit that the actual  joke about Boo and his nature has kind of been lost over the decades of his memification. I mean, maybe I'm wrong, but wasn't the point that he was just a regular hamster and that "miniature giant space hamster" was obviously...

Yeah, it may be beyond the scope of 5.5, but I'm hoping they'll redo Wild Shape the same way they redid the Beast Master's companion and just have generic (but scaling) blocks for aerial/marine/land Beasts, or maybe break it down by size or something. That or just go with the NPC Frost Druid...

Well yeah, that's what I mean. "Person turning into a bear" would be fine, but not very interesting, for precisely the reason you mention. We all saw The Hobbit. It's been done.

I think it would be pretty disappointing for audiences unfamiliar with D&D to see this adventure taking place in a magical world full of bizarre monsters and have a character that can transform into something magically become, like, a regular bear. Turing into a bear is cool in the game at low...