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Probably, but hopefully not. If they are fey, they need some racial trait that lets them ignore Detect Evil and Good and other abilities like that. The intrigue of changelings is mostly lost if wide-magic Eberronians can just cast a low level spell to reveal them. I’m in the minority, but I...

I imagine the Guardian Naga will become a Celestial along with the Sphinxes.

In D&D, mind powers. Telepathy, telekinesis, astral projection. That kind of stuff. In my approach and setting, it’s basically lucid dreaming in a fictional world. Realizing your reality is merely the dream of a dead god and using your mind to manipulate the world around you. A weaker version...

@Mind of tempest, you mentioned earlier that you dislike tying Psionics to the Far Realm, saying that WotC doesn’t do that to the other magic types. But they kind of do. Primal Magic is obviously connected to the Material Plane, Elemental Planes, and Feywild. Divine magic is generally tied to...

They haven’t been “aggressively pushing it.” As I mentioned earlier, there was a severe lack of fey in early 5e. There’s still a lack of fey creatures, especially at high CRs. If you go to DnDBeyond’s monster search engine and you look for specifically Fey creatures, you’ll find that there are...

Do you think the fact Tyranny of Dragons was published means that Dragons didn’t deserve Fizban’s? How about Storm King’s Thunder? Giants already got an adventure book, so they didn’t deserve a monster book in Bigby’s?

I’m saying you’re tilting at windmills, Quixote. Worse. You’re seeking out farms on the chance that they might have a windmill, and thus a giant to fight. Hasbro has had WotC for over two and a half decades. They have probably meddled in quite a few of the decisions WotC made in 3.X, 4e, and...

They are making new Fey monsters. The Archhag, a new Pixie and Satyr, a few more. You would know that if you actually watched the damn video instead of whining about it. The original Monster Manual was very lopsided in the amount of monsters in each creature type it had. Celestials, Fey, and...

This is flat earther logic. "I have decided something must be true, and I cherrypick random details and decide that's evidence that it is true." Uh, yeah. There were like 7 Fey monsters in the original 5e Monster Manual (dryad, pixie, sprite, blink dog, sea and green hag, probably one or two...

The lich in the original 5e Monster Manual had the Paralyzing Touch spell attack. However, it’s not a spell available to the PCs. Since you care about verisimilitude so much, whenever the first time you came across that obvious error, did you immediately homebrew a Paralyzing Touch spell for...

Okay, the idea that there really is a single Tarrasque and when it stops rampaging on one planet it just teleports to another is an interesting idea. I’m not sure I’ll ever use it, but I’ll definitely keep it in mind for my my next high level or Spelljammer campaign.

I was referring to how the original 5e Monster Manual discusses the Tarrasque, which it definitely describes as singular. It's called "the legendary tarrasque" and it's said that it's widely believed to be the only one in existence. I am aware of the Tarrasque Planet from Spelljammer and that...

They generally avoid putting unique NPCs in the Monster Manual. There’s a reason why Orcus, Demogorgon, and the Archfiends are in the Monsters of the Multiverse book instead of the Monster Manual. The Tarrasque is the sole exception in 5e.

The dog people in Dungeon Meshi are Kobolds.

All settings do have their own lore, history, and changes to creatures if they differ from the base. The First World exists as a Doylist explanation for why most D&D settings have so many creatures in common (they’re an echo from a shattered first world) while allowing for different versions of...

This. In my games, “pure psionics” comes from the Astral Plane, the realm of thought. Aberrations from the Far Realm use psionics because that’s the closest the D&D cosmos has to their native power source. I also have religions in my worlds that view Psionics as the purest form of magic...

Which is why the “exotic playable species” are typically in secondary, non-core books like Spelljammer and Monsters of the Multiverse.

I like most of the changes they’ve talked about and previewed, but I admit that I’m confused about the “monster version is fey/aberration/other creature type, playable option is humanoid” change. We already have playable options for non-humanoid species and they said they’re making more. Why do...

I include Humanoid NPC villains/antagonists all the time in my campaigns. The spell will still definitely be useful at my table once I adopt the new rules.

They clarify that the Aberration creature type means that the monsters are unnatural creatures specifically from or linked to the Far Realm. So, Kuo Toa, Grimlocks, Gith, Piercers/Ropers, and more are now Aberrations. Slaad will presumably have some lore connection to the Far Realm now. No stat...