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I think in 2024 we can probably be okay with the idea that the demographic groups who play D&D and the demographic groups who wear make-up aren't mutually exclusive, if they ever were.

You might want to make it clearer who plagarised from whom in the OP! Because the DK one is a 70s-looking line drawing, I assumed that was the original and the D&D book had traced it for some reason (while also adding a bunch of details and shading that made me wonder why they bothered...).

It's cute. There are baby fire giants and a sidebar with some Giant baby talk phrases you can use for them. It's basically a light-hearted one shot; single location, simple premise, relatively low stakes.

Might be worth pointing out that the bit about atheists going to the Hells is a single line in Asmodeus's description in the appendix, and even he doesn't know for certain that that's how it actually works. It's just a theory to explain his intermittent interest in being worshipped as a god...

As a general rule, if you stat up a 10th-level PC as a monster, you get a CR 5 statblock, so that's about the criteria you should be looking for. Exact level equivalents will be impossible to find in anything published since about Candlekeep Mysteries, but the Rivals from Call of the Netherdeep...

No, I'm saying sentiments like "warlock is half caster and has lost access to higher level spells" is ignoring that they deliberately shunted some of those features into a different place, while combining them with others. So now warlocks get standard half casting for most of their spell slots...

That's why you take the new Mystic Arcanum invocation, which gives you access to the same level spells as a full caster at the same level. As the box-outs explain, all of the invocations that let you cast a spell 1/day have been rolled into Mystic Arcanum, and warlocks now have access to the...

Warlocks are only technically half-casters: the new version of Mystic Arcanum (it's an Eldritch Invocation now) gives them access to more spells of higher level at the same levels as other full casters (i.e. they can get access to 3rd-level spell at 5th level). So you can either tool them up as...

Yes. I know. That's why I said that in my post? You cherry-picked a single sentence and made it sound like I had no idea about the above. I'm not making any comparison about mechanics, it's just that the paragraph in which the sentence you quoted appeared was talking about that aspect. I'm...

My post literally says this in the next paragraph. The statement you quoted is in the context of game mechanics, as the prior section you omitted makes clear. Please don't use an isolated quote to make it look like I don't understand the narrative appeal of playing a character with a mixed heritage!

I wasn't suggesting it was tbh. As I mentioned later in my post, there are people who find value in the "half-X" ancestries. My point was that if you remove the unfortunate implications that come from them in order to present them as their own groups that, in their backstories, have mixed...

I think the only way to handle it, ultimately, is the way that Eberron does it (albeit not in so many words): by making those half-races into distinct populations and societies, and giving them names that don't sound so...uncomfortably essentialist. But if you have "Khoravar" or something...

As an independent creator whose income is almost entirely dependent on Twitter's survival, the actions of Elon Musk are not ones you want to see emulated in your favourite hobby. The current uncertainty is inflicting material harm on me and my business.

It's kind of by-the-by, but the base Death Knight in the MM (which this Soth statblock is very much just an enhanced version of) is the swingiest of swingy monsters in a game already renowned for its swingy combat! It's high CR is weighted almost entirely on its offensive side, thanks to its one...

Right, but that's exactly what I mean: that's taking the game mechanics and abstracting them into an in-universe narrative. The hypothetical characters in that scenario aren't talking about taking levels in Fighter or getting an Extra Attack: they're using generic terms that we understand don't...

I mean, I don't know about you guys, but in the games I run, the PCs don't have some in-setting version of the PHB to hand that lets them distinguish between something they might learn in the course of adventuring and something a random person or monster they meet can do. Sorry, but it just...

I'll be honest, I'm not sure it is that valid to have your expectations - preferences, sure, but not expectations - set by a product released by a different company, in a different century, when I (for example) was 2 years old. Like, fine, okay: feel free to do things that way. Your table, your...

Let's flip the question: why would anyone else in the world be able to do what PCs do? The characters don't know they're taking levels in a class. As far as they're concerned, their experiences and the benefits they gain from them are unique to themselves. A random wilderness scout can't fight...

A kingfisher is called that because it catches fish though. It's a real bird, and so could be used without any connection to existing Dragonlance background. They just named their competition after the bird.

All this is basically why you don't build a setting around incredibly specific implementations of the rules you're using.