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I'd argue they weren't there. Streaming wasn't big, there were no big shows at the moment tapping into that particular right nostalgia boom to give it a big push, virtual tabletop technology was in its infancy and there wasn't a massive pandemic on the horizon to give a lot of people a lot of...

The runes were divine in origin in game lore, so it went into the Divine space Previous editions runes were more an arcane thing

Given that no other version of D&D has ever matched 5E's success, I don't thing this is much of a clarifier. AD&D didn't match the success of 5E, doesn't stop the OSR crowd. There's 4E clones and stuff like 13th Age that go off with some of its ideas on their own showing it does have that...

In 4E it functioned as a Divine Leader, so it fills a similar niche to cleric. Uses runes rather than worshipping the divine, the general idea being more of a 'seeking lost knowledge' type of caster so also fits the wizard-ish side of things. The runes in question were symbols left by the...

Yeah, while it may not be a 5E thing I'd absolutely say the wider pop culture image of trolls has them absolutely being able to be impossibly sneaky. They're the prototypical 'blends into nature so well it looks like its stones, or they turned into the stone' creature. Mind the pop culture...

Doesn't have a book version but MotB was considered the second well-written D&D video game, after Planescape Torment. And uh, let me tell you, most people who know Torment very much like the game being canon and not the novel version seriously the Planescape Torment novel ain't good. Like, just...

Kaelyn the dove, ex-Doomguide of Kelemvor, destroyed it along with the player character and a gaggle of other misc followers in MotB. There you go, not a retcon but "This was the original intent" that got cut in the game with so, so much cut content (seriously you do not know how much cut...

As an action figure fan, asking action figure fans won't get you useful information. The thing is the market that used to grab toys (IE: Kids) doesn't do toys as much any more, and there's a sliiight issue with "Main retailers just not buying the product in question and leaving it sitting in...

Y'know, I've got a random third party document (that I keep around in case anyone makes the mistake of asking the kaiju fan if there's kaiju stuff) that's got Circle of the Divine Moth. Y'know, Mothra. Not that it'd really help but the 'turn into a divine Thing' aspect could be interesting, if...

The Wall was pretty blatently written in to be destroyed in the first place, it just never was. It shouldn't have lasted past Mask of the Betrayer, honestly. Rejoice in its destruction. Rejoice in an evil being removed from the Planes Deities and Demigods mangles half the gods it brings over...

Posts are just text that we don't get any money for, so they're fine Youtube videos like this, though, are clickbait. They could be explained easier in text, they'd be shot-down in text per the notes up-thread, and the person who made the video is directly trying to profit from you looking at...

Doesn't matter if it was the dying days, that's your comparison point. That was Dark Sun's last gasp for decades. If you say you want it back to 2E days, that's 2E days. Surfing lizardmen. Writers pet NPCs killing off all the big threats rather than letting the players handle it. That's the...

I'd argue Athas.org probably isn't an unbiased source per those high numbers of 2E which, is a bit of a Spiders Georg situation going on, as outside of that, that is absolutely not the numbers you'd be seeing for 2E games elsewhere 5E Athas didn't kitchen sink it, though. The additions were...

Most of the reaction to 4E I saw was it was a return to form and a lot of people applauding it for going backwards in the timescale, along with very specifically ignoring the Prism Pentad The biggest upset was with Dray but like.... Dray were given playable stats in the 2E and there was a whole...

Plus if there's a China equivilent in your setting, there'd probably be myths from out that way about how they're handled there. And for extra fun, dragonborn out that way absolutely would not be hated over that end, but instead basically be a celebrity, with all of the expected drama of 'yo...

D&D's got a massive history of making formerly NPC races playable. Complete Book of Humanoids, after all, and Drow themselves have been promoted straight into the PHB these days Also like, one of the D&D MMOs even put 'em in. Which is surprising because it was the older one, not Neverwinter...

Ehhh, I'm gonna.... Doubt on that one Max if only due to the Sights I've Seen. This may be because my brain is tainted by Warcraft but you'd better believe there were plenty of druids just longuing around as bears, folks using clothing to give themselves horns and dragon wings to appear as...

Only hits too many once we hit Lupin variants numbers, and I'm pretty sure Dragonborn haven't got that bad yet

Absolutely could. Same with class selection. If someone wants to play a warlock and gets told "Oh, we're playing a low magic so you can only pick from half the classes in the game" then, isn't that person entitled to go "Cool, good luck, game isn't for me" and leave? Or, y'know, me being an...

We're all in hypotheticals in this situation, let's be honest. Has anyone requested Dragonborn in the dragonborn-denying games, given that Dragonborn are a notoriously underpowered race that you only ever play for flavour? Playable stats in every edition except Basic and 4E in some form of...