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Those last maps made me laugh a bit. I live in Phoenix, and the last few months certainly have made it feel like I'm on Athas! Granted, it's actually been a bit cooler this year than last, where we hit 110 every day for a couple of months in a row.

Further themed monster books, like fiends (and celestials), elementals, undead, fey, aberrations, etc. Since they seem to be updating a lot of settings, update Planescape with a Manual of the Planes type book, covering what was not included in the boxed set.

Let me tell you a story from the Before Times, in the long distant year of 2000, when all we had was use.net as the main communication for D&D fans. On a warm day in August, the 3e PHB was released. I went and got mine from my FLGS, and paged through it while having dinner on the Wendy's on the...

You're extrapolating from very incomplete information here. It may be gone, it may not be gone. But it's impossible to draw anything approaching truly definitive conclusions from a few bits of UA material. All we know for sure is that Defiling is done this particular way for this particular...

I wonder if they'll still have 5d4 for stats.

Combining some of the things I mentioned, Shakespeare's Troilus and Cresida is about 10 successive fanatics removed from its Homeric original.

Using the medusa as an example might not be the best choice, as there have been male medusae in D&D before 2024, most notably in Princes of the Apocolypse.

We have always been a civilization of artistic pillages and creative parasites. The ancient Greek tragedies pillaged their mythic traditions mercilessly. They rewrote Homer, for goodness sake! And precisely one of Shakespeare's plays, The Tempest, is his own creation - the rest were all his...

The real issue with Spelljammer was the page count. Give it say 32 more pages and use that for ship-to-ship combat rules and sample Wildspace systems (and how to create your own Wildspace systems), then it would have been fine. As it is, it's not totally bad, just incomplete. Well, other than...

I'm assuming validation in that it's the "official" version. I guess for me as a long, long term Doctor Who fan, it helps in this sort of thing that the show purposely reinvents itself every few years. If you don't like what you see now, well, you still have what you liked in the past (well...

There's also the opposite - nostalgia that so colors opinion in some that beside it everything new is considered to be "gray goop", no matter how colorful it actually may be (admittedly, sometimes it is gray, but nowhere near as consistently as some would have you believe). Sometimes people have...

It's a PHB illustration, for Hunger of Hadar.

It's just the recycled Hunger of Hadar illustration from the PHB. They aren't going to commission new artwork for a simple UA.

A lot if the old guard who were saying that have recently left. They could also just slap "mature audience" warnings on it, and have info in the text about potential issues with this sort of setting and advice on how to run it. A few months ago, I wouldn't have thought they would touch...