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The FR book is meant for a general D&D audience, so.... There's a place for generic. I wouldn't expect it to be exciting to a lot of posters here, but for all those kids new to the setting from BG3, it's a good bit of setting kit. Eh, feels a little like someone's a bit jealous of...

So it's a failed design. That's OK. We don't need to be committed to doing something with the name that has nothing to do with the setting. We can just not use the name. Eh, opinions vary. But even granting it, "being cool" is only part of the goal of a D&D design. D&D has a history and a...

The broader point that I'm using this in support of is that it's not unreasonable to expect a general audience to learn about the thing. We don't have to meet their expectations in a vacuum. We can expect people to learn that the Holy Roman Empire really was. This is a setting book. People want...

And "Wizard" makes it sound like Gandalf could be a Hufflepuff, unless you know the settings better. And why do we have dragons with colors, while we're at it, aren't dragons all just green nasty things that breathe fire? And why don't rangers capture outlaws and speak in Texan and know how to...

In general, I'm not a fan of marketing-led design, specifically because it gives people exactly what they say they want, without regard to creating new wants. The whole "if I'd asked people what they wanted, they'd say a faster horse!" thing. A well-done FR book doesn't need to appeal to the...

There is a product that could be too niche, but I don't think FR would be it. Spelljammer, I'd understand. I don't think they'd sell fewer books by having a more lore-accurate PDK. A charismatic military leader is not exactly a niche concept. If you can over look the "spellfire" name and the...

So, one way this could go is by making a subclass that works for FR's Purple Dragon Knights and just calling it something else (the "Banneret" option). Another way this could go is by augmenting FR's Purple Dragon Knights by, idk, making them the pre-eminent group of military leaders in the...

I think it's curious that some of the support about the PDK being a dragon-tamer are the people who aren't really fans of FR, weighing in on FR subclasses, for an FR book. It's feeling like a roller coaster company asking for advice on building a roller coaster and people who have inner ear...

Yeah, this is part of the discussion, I'm sure. They want to see how much people actually still care about respecting some of the lore, given the volume of new players. I really hope folks show them that the story of the thing still matters.

It's just vibes. It also gives me vibes like when a private equity company buys a brand and sells off all the assets underneath the brand but repurposes the name for something completely different and often sub-par. "Unilever buys Ben & Jerry's" style. Yeah, putting a leader-y fighter in this...

Which is backwards. The name comes from the slain black dragon, and if you want something that is evocative of the setting, you can be prepared to care about the history and context of the setting. We don't need to Christopher Columbus this and call something that's not from India an Indian just...

Conceptually, I like how these classes are very tied to FR specifically. That's a wonderful bit of design kit and it's something I hope to see more of - classes that evoke some local flavor. Specifically, my biggest gripe is about the Purple Dragon Knight. This is backwards. If what you want...

I think it's worth noting that part of the reason the didn't do this, I'd imagine, is because aasimar and tieflings have always been humans with a little "something else" in them. The narrative suggests that they're humanoid. Compare, say, a warforged. The narrative for that suggests very much...

I'd wager we still have a Goblin template for the NPC statblocks, which is how you'd stat up a humanoid goblin with the 2025 MM.

Yeah, when WotC is talking about a creature's "narrative," it's all top-down. What they decide a goblin's story is may or may not be the same thing a goblin's story is in your game. They have a reason for wanting goblins to be fey (I suspect it's because they've got a big fey themed adventure on...

Maybe possible, but with the way books are planned out years in advance by the team, I'd doubt it. They've known what they wanted in this book for probably AT LEAST a year now, and it's not likely to dramatically change without good reason.

Ogres are an interesting case study for this new typing, because of our old school "ogre magi" AKA Oni. So you can have Ogres of the Giant type. And you can have Ogres of the Fey type that might be a little more fairy tale. Maybe they turn to stone if touched by sunlight. And you can have...

It's OK to mistrust the messaging. I'd even suspect that you're right that part of why they wanted to be looser with typing is that it's easier to show that not all creatures of a given name are a monolith. But they don't need to confess this to the public as if they're apologizing for...

This is how conspiracy theories flourish. A large, complicated entity does something to break your trust in it. So, understandably, you don't trust it. Then the large, complicated entity does something, and gives you a reason for it. And you just...substitute your own...and declare it...

Probably a few reasons, but the one they give in the video is narrative. Creature type tells a deliberate story in this version of the game. Something about where your magic comes from or why you are the way you are. So if you say your character is a humanoid, that means something specific. It...