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Sure. That is absolutely not true. The internet is practically fueled by outrage and negativity.

Chris Perkins was passionate about Spelljammer. Jeremy Crawford has appeared very passionate about the rule updates in all of his recent videos about the 2024 core books. I’m sure the people working on Planescape, Dragonlance, and the recent adventure compilations were passionate about their...

Do you seriously have to harp about how much you hate current D&D lore in every thread like this? Why is your first reaction to me saying “I like this lore change, I think it fits better,” “I think this sucks, clearly WotC is removing all our precious slavery lore, and I’m sure you like that.”...

I’m glad they removed the lore of them being former Mind Flayer slaves. We already have enough of those in D&D. Their backstory lore is now more similar to Aboleths than Gith/Duergar/Grimlocks/Derro, which I think makes sense.

The Dungeon Dudes' interview with Crawford was great. I haven't watched the other videos. While I have been disappointed by some of the changes and largely didn't think it went far enough to fix the game's problems, I am still interested in seeing some of the updates, especially the variety of...

The reason why the Fairy is small isn’t to “leave things open for a tiny fey later.” It’s for the same reason why none of the big races (Minotaurs, Centaurs, Goliaths, Firbolg) are Large even if it would make sense for them to be/their monster equivalents are Large. It’s because 5e is not...

I have never had this problem. I tend to have NPCs react to magic and spellcasters in ways I think make sense for their culture/society/religion. It varies between setting, but I use the general rule that most magic is seen as a powerful weapon or tool, but there are taboo types (enchantment and...

On the subject of half-species, I was glad to see them removed as full races, just because I felt that only supporting Half-Elves and Half-Orcs, and not any of the other potential hybrids (Half-Dwarves, Gnomes, Halflings, etc) was weird and opened up too many questions. To me the “you can be...

I am disappointed by most of the changes to the races. I thought that the UA was a promising start, but wanted them to do more. Wizards of the Coast has a strange habit of creating cool new systems for mechanics and then either forgetting about them a couple books down the line (lineages...

This is the internet, so I’m sure most of you are familiar with the Narcissist’s Prayer: While this scenario is a bit different (Gygax isn’t using these excuses, his supporters are), I can’t help but see the similarities in how the “pro-Gygax” side is arguing. It started out with Robert...

Excellent finale. While this season had some great episodes, it did feel weaker overall compared to the last season. The last 2 episodes really helped the overall season and I’m looking forward to the story rapping up in the next season and Gen V season 2.

Apep/Apophis from Egyptian mythology is a giant snake, embodiment of chaos, and nemesis of Ra.

The point is to legitimize bigotry. That is all the “pro-Gygax” side is trying to do. To retroactively rewrite Gygax’s bigotry as “not so bad” because more people were openly sexist in the 70s.

Yeah, this thread is pretty much exactly what I expected it to be. They’re not trying very hard to hide their bigotry. There’s a group of people on this site that always rush to defend racists, sexists, transphobes, and other bigots whenever topics like this come up. Of the defenders of Gygax in...

To add to this, the 2014 SRD was called 5.1 No one has ever called the 2014 rules 5.1e D&D. That’s silly. IMO, calling the 2024 rules 5.2e is equally silly.

I would love an adventure compilation book for Eberron, similar to the Saltmarsh/Candlekeep/Radiant Citadel line of books. Low level noir adventures in Sharn, mid-level pulp adventures in Xen’drik, and high-level Doom-esque adventures in Khyber and the planes.

That’s Ogrillions, IIRC

I’m not really that familiar with Greyhawk. Most of the information I do know about it is the basic stuff that’s bled into other settings (the Great Wheel, Vecna and Mordenkainen, some of the gods, etc). And I’m not really interested in it. I already have enough settings that I enjoy. But from...

I’m glad Sphinxes are Celestials. When I first bought the Monster Manual and read the Sphinx stat blocks I found it mind-boggling that they weren’t Celestials. I hope there are more creature type fixes like that. (Guardian Nagas should also be Celestials, IMO, with Spirit Nagas being Fiends.)

No. It's your attitude towards newer art styles that's offensive, which bleeds into whichever terminology you would use. A euphemism that is used the same way as a purposefully offensive term expresses the same meaning. I reject the premise that older D&D art was uniformly "serious, tough...