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You know it isn't really urban fantasy unless at least one PC says "I like Bob, he is so nice. Hanz (and how often is it a vaguely Germanic name?) is a total jerk, but he is so, so ... (wait for it)....(keep waiting for it)...(can't hold it any longer).....ALPHAAAA." Sorry, urban fantasy pet...

I think it depends on edition. I would agree that most of pre-4e she came across as more NE than CE. 4e doubled down on the crazy and the CE (when the God of Torture thinks you are a maniac....). When haven't seen enough in 5e to know. For my setting, I decided to go Kore-Persephone. Every...

Dragon riders of Pern if you make it long enough.

Personally, I would rather the Valkyrie was some kind of controller (to use the 4e term) that could inflict a state of rage (similar to barbarians) in someone she could see (of course, the victim could choose to fail the save and choose the rage) and then had spells to power up her warrior. She...

One DnD 2025.04 on the front page has the classes from the 2025 Forgotten Realms UA.

Please do. I could see the face-tweener-heel axis vs. the classy-weird-jerk axis Classy Face: John Cena, Ricky Steamboat, Cody Classy Tweener: OTC Roman Reigns (he doesn't have to be a jerk, he has Paul Heyman to do it for him). Classy Heel: Nick Bockwinkel is the classic, but I think MVP...

Aren't Archmages, archdruids, etc. supposed to be 20th level casters? They only have CR of 12.

There is a pretty big logical flaw that permeates this thread (and most of the threads recently). So, if most of the goblins the PC's get into a fight with are fey, why are we assuming that means the majority of goblins anywhere else are fey? It seems like this is boarding on "All the Asian...

In the DMG, they reference Minotaurs of Baphomet, so I think your odds are pretty good.

If every plane had a specific being (or type of being) associated with it, I would be okay with moving the planes stuff to the MM (since more outsiders would make me happy), but as far as I can tell Arcadia, Bytopia, Arborea (depending on whether eladrin are default fey or celestials), Ysgard...

The Great Wheel is only verifiable in the real world, because we have DMG's and other publications. Inside the D&D worlds, we just have someone teleporting someplace and someone else told them, "Welcome to X". In other words, a story. Exactly the level of "proof" you said doesn't count. MY...

Or more likely Gygax had actually read Paradise Lost. Especially the part where Satan runs into Orcus and Demogorgon OUTSIDE of Hell: and by them stood Orcus and Ades, and the dreaded name Of Demogorgon;.... T' whom Satan, turning boldly, thus:—"Ye Powers And Spirits of this nethermost Abyss...

One DnD 2025.03 on the front page has all the magic items from Chapter 7 of the 2024 DMG and everything from the Artificer UA.

Sure, maybe you can do something else on your second trip to Sigil, but everyone does a heist there on their first trip, right?

Maybe it is just the murderhobos I have to deal with, but I think the story line is less "paradise invaded" and more "five-finger discount or heist caper, with consequences to follow."

I don't think you should be a monstrosity without some kind of curse, magical ability (medusa's gaze), or being the extra big version of a humanoid (I presume the Minotaurs of Baphomet they mentioned in the DMG will be monstrosities, but they could be thought of as large humanoid minotaurs)...

I think it depends on how secure your Upper Planes are. If demon hordes show up every week, then your ground level plane will be one big fortress (LG), one big bar full of heavily armed, rowdy heroes (CG), or a pleasant forest where Guardinals are waiting behind every tree to...

I really like aura of encouragement. Definitely feels like a lawful thing.

Today's word of the day is connotation. Angels don't have a connotation of "giant wingless guy" or "floating eyeballs." It is very rare that D&D choses something that conflicts with connotation. I don't see it happening here.

There were celestial dwarves in Arcadia and celestial elves in Arborea, either of which could use the NPC stat blocks. Likewise, the fiendish orcs and hobgoblins of Archeron could use the NPC stat blocks. That being said, I wouldn't want to go overboard on that, it would be a little...