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Yeah doing a baseline "Here are the racial traits for our signature races and mechanics" goes a long way to unifying the community. To continue the Dark Sun example, if you know the rules for defiling will be consistent you can run different adventures from different authors that play with the...

Opening stuff up to dmsguild is huge - it means people can write conversions of old adventures in a setting without WOTC having to put their tiny team on it. Sure, an individual DM can do the work, but the success of the dmsguild proves plenty would rather pay for someone else to.

Nothing firm, but it sounds like they're going to make it this month barring catastrophe. Almost all the book is into editing and layout, which means they're close to doing proofs. Guessing it's going to be the end of the month though rather than next week.

No there weren't PC stats, just some new monster stat blocks

Volo's Guide had 5e gnoll content but it was basically "bloodthirsty marauders with no depth"

The 4e Dragon article for playable gnolls was written by Keith Baker. It's one of his few non-Eberron d&d publications.

For what it's worth, Keith's vision of airships is closer to WW1 use of airplanes, which is to say not terribly involved and mostly used for reconnaissance. What's more relevant to air power is flying cavalry, which due to the cost of raising the mounts has significantly different dynamics.

http://keith-baker.com/dm-gnolls/ New Keith post! Lore write up for gnolls, plus confirmation that the book will include racial stats!

Since this got rezzed I should probably update the OP to indicate that all signs are pointing to the book coming out in March. Also, here's what I wrote in the Eberronicon The point being, the house's reliance on family lines limit their ability to be true monopolies. Furthermore, the...

Yeah Sharn has a lot of unique features that W: DH, which wasn't written to be set in Sharn, doesn't utilize. Just because they're both big cities doesn't mean it's a good idea to convert adventures from one to the other. There's plenty of other cities in the setting that let you convert for way...

Aboleth 8 Beholder 22 Gibbering Mouther 3 Mind Flayer 20 Y'all aren't seriously trying to sink the creatures before time, right? Also, Beholders are just floating sacks and not particularly interesting personality wise. At least Mind Flayers have a society.

Aboleth 30 Beholder 28 Elder Brain 23 Gibbering Mouther 10 Mind Flayer 27 Otyugh 7

Re: The dominant argument. I'm inclined to agree with the position that 5e practically doesn't have class skill proficiencies, and the existing ones mostly just guide players into the class archetypes. Now, for weapon proficiencies, as someone who's played a weapon cleric I disagree that they...

Aboleth 34 Beholder 31 Chuul 17 Elder Brain 26 Gibbering Mouther 29 Mind Flayer 24 Neogi 16 Neothelid 15 Otyugh 31 Ulitharid 18

Aboleth 31 Beholder 30 Berbalang 16 Chuul 21 Elder Brain 27 Gibbering Mouther 28 Mind Flayer 29 Mindwitness 11 Neogi 18 Neothelid 19 Otyugh 26 Ulitharid 22

Exploring Eberron, 2/6/20 For those of you not familiar, Exploring Eberron is an Eberron lore supplement by Keith Baker [the original designer of Eberron], that is set to be published on the dmsguild in both pdf and Print on Demand formats. To summarize, ExE is a "labor of love" for Keith...

Civil war in Karrnath - Warlords vs. Kaius, BoV formenting unrest. Could also see nascent labor movements in Breland or Karrnath.

I think the most clear example of D&D officially using the multiverse but keeping FR the default example is the Weave sidebar in the spellcasting section -

At the same time, the stated reason for the PHB2 delays of "These guys have a troubled history and needed more time for hashing out" really was and is true for gnomes and half-orcs. In fact, one of my biggest issues with 5e is they got rid of the interesting "fey gnome" angle and went back to...

Eberron's Kalashtar are actually an example of ascended fiends. Per 3.5, Quori are Outsider (evil) and use all the same rules for possession classic fiends do. 5e tried to make Quori aberrations, but this was a change in editing Keith Baker considers a mistake. So, starting with the premise that...