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The hook horror encounter in Baldur's Gate 3 was honestly the first time I had any interest in the monster. What a way to make a potentially goofy looking creature completely terrifying.

May be an unpopular opinion but I think that's a good change. Like my take is 'who the heck is Hruggek'? That's not a deity with so much as a cult in my homebrew setting. But the fey embodiment of the fear of nature is something I can work with as an enemy.

stop, collaborate & listen.

Wouldn't work for fiends since "Devil ice Devil" is redundant

Man, I'm 37 and I don't care if the Netflix D&D show is MA or not. Was this meant to be directed at someone else?

Please say Arcane is one of those exceptions it's sooo good.

I'm fine with both but what I don't like is dumb edgelord 'maturity' like the 3E Book of Vile Darkness or a lot of the expanded 4E lore about evil deities.

Robot balor, eff yes!

Yes, but 1. The industry has changed a lot since then and M-rated games tend to be some of the biggest sellers. GTA5 is like the best selling anything in the entertainment industry ever. 2. The story of BG3 couldn't really be told at modern graphical fidelity at a T-rating. Ceremorphosis alone...

There is no way the game was going to be anything but M-rated even without the sex. It's not a fluffy PG-13 kind of romp like Honor Among Thieves.

Yes, this is accurate.

I mean just enforcing the rule that you can't benefit from more than one long rest in 24 hours can nip a lot of that in the bud.

Uh.. if the players are getting long rests after each combat then the DM is doing something very wrong.

I'm saying you're misinterpreting the lesson learned. Multiple settings isn't a bad thing. Multiple mutually exclusive product lines that they couldn't sell because they were largely incompatible was the problem. In point of fact, WOTC has been supporting multiple settings with all its...

I wouldn't know since I don't have a time machine and thus haven't been able to read 6E yet.

...Uh okay. Sure, that was the problem, and not Neil Gaiman's history of abuse.

It remains to be seen if they're going to divide the fanbase but I've seen nothing to indicate the plan is anything close to what they did during the TSR era. Even if you 'support' settings, releasing 5 books a year is not nearly as burdensome as trying to cover multiple settings with 30+ books...

Not to mention that the Marvel/DC multiverse and the D&D multiverse don't even use the word in the same way.

CS Lewis was doing kitchen sink fantasy before kitchen sink fantasy was a thing.

In my Spelljammer game I actually had my party encounter themselves from a parallel world where all their lives had gone very differently. The monk was a vampire, the wizard was just hired muscle, the Warlock was a Paladin under a guy she hated in the main timeline, etc.