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Are avatars just a Forgotten realms thing or has that permeated into broader D&D canon? That always seemed to be the best way to have fightable gods to me; you're basically fighting their divine Roombas.

In this, we are in agreement. The best way to do it is to have fiendish gnolls and non-fiendish gnolls. Why is it that Orcs can shake off the influence of Gruumsh and Tieflings aren't bound to Asmodeus, but gnolls must follow Yeenoghu? We should have gnoll npcs bound to yeenoghu, and gnoll PCs...

To my knowledge, there are no major religions that have a prohibition against depicting angels. If anything, Islam has a carve-out for that because you're not supposed to depict living human beings, but angels are ok. Why is it ok to draw a picture of a human commoner, offending Muslims, but not...

But you can clearly see the angels printed in the monster manual, so that's not a matter of faith. Plenty of people believe in ghosts and witches and demons and those are in the monster manual too. Why are we being so sensitive for angels?

I honestly feel I say this a lot but... gnolls are interesting in Eberron. Where pretty much every monster race is interesting. And now gnolls are 100% incompatible with decades of Eberron lore, because Eberron had gnolls overcoming their savage natures and becoming productive members of society...

The Githzerai were survivalist preppers IN SPACE until Planescape Torment came out with Dak'kon and suddenly they became extraplanar monks obsessed with bringing balance to chaos. It's happened before and no one gave a naughty word then.

People believe that humans, cats and horses are real and they're in the monster manual too, what's the big deal?

From what I understand about the online D&D community, they're very hidebound about posting direct text from the books (even if that text is available elsewhere) due to that period when TSR would sue everyone on earth.

My comedic spelljammer game had a brief sojourn into Elysium and yeah, it was so boring I basically had to retcon it. So I just literally had the plane be one unending furry convention, because of the Guardinals. It's panels and orgies connected by infinite "backrooms" tunnels and occasionally...

They have. There's not much. Empyreans are literally just "the divine creations of gods". Examples given include their direct blood progeny, their thoughts made real, or lifelike mechanical creations made by the hands of god.

There's a TV show based on them right now. I think its second season premiers this month.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lives_of_the_Mayfair_Witches

I just don't think that hags should be the vehicle for inclusion. They're villains. They're evil. If inclusion is good and exclusion is bad, shouldn't we have the monsters be exclusive?

Effectively, if people are bothered by the fact that "only hags and women and only women are hags", remember that these are monsters we're talking about. From the Latin "Monstrum", or "show", which is also found in the modern word "Demonstrate." Monsters demonstrate something about our...

But they're not doing anything unique with male hags other than... having male hags. They're not engaging with the inherent gender transgression of such an identity. They're not making male hags into statements on patriarchy. No one complained that George Romero's zombies had little to nothing...

Because of the widely different physiques of the citizens of Droaam, I wonder if the sisters of sora kell have anything like our contemporary notion of "Americans with Disabilities Act Compliance". Are all new constructions required to allow a hill-giant to pass easily through the doors? If not...

You can't just "make" folklore. It has to develop organically from the folk. When you "make" folklore you just end up with "intellectual property."

Geezer, koot, alter kocker; my particular favorite is "Gammon."

A male hag makes no sense; the whole reason why hags are repulsive and evil is because they're based on patriarchial folklore that sees women beyond childbearing age as abject monstrosities. Introducing egalitarianism and feminism gets rid of the point. A "male hag" is just a naughty word senator in...

I suppose a forum for RPG games is probably the second most likely place you're going to find stoner rock enthusiasts