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They can change whatever they like. It doesn't bother me as I'll only use it if I like it. My feeling about WotC lore is that it tends to be bland and dull across the board and is written more for product and brand identity purpose then with any real attempt at creativity. I don't understand...

I think I said something about a 20th level Wizard being a demigod on account of being able to cast Wish. (Which to me seems pretty fair). I would have thought it was obvious that I meant it pretty loosely. I didn't say anything about taking over a kingdom, although obviously that would...

In the group I used to play with, and still do occasionally, although we don't meet very often, no one ever played an elf. We just all really hated elves. If we made up a campaign world with that group there would be no elves. It wouldn't occur to us to put in elves, I don't think it would...

I think if I did XP by combat levelling up would actually be very slow. It takes a long time to get through all those combats.

Starting games at higher levels is always going to be an issue for people, precisely because it's higher levels. Games tend to work more efficiently closer to the beginning and lose efficiency and gain complexity as you work through them. It's almost impossible to avoid unless you stop giving...

I addressed this in the post you quoted. Either you didn't read it (which is bizarre but seems to happen a lot around here), or you ignored it. If the latter why waste your time replying if you're not going to address what was said?

I think making King Azoun 20th level is silly, but a lot of things in D&D are somewhat silly. But in many ways higher level important NPCs are a consequence of the rules. If King Azoun is a 1st level Fighter a Bard with Expertise can just lie to his face. If he's say 10th level, then he at...

Presumaby D&D worlds tend to make these characters high level so the PCs can't just take over. Or you can go the Waterdeep route (which is cleverer) and make the rulers hidden.

I think it's likely that most people are using D&D hardbacks, so the lack of higher level characters has a lot to do with the fact that adventures don't go up that high. Exactly why they don't go that high is an interesting question in itself. I believe that Paizo started with adventure paths...

Dwarves are too boring a topic for a thread.

Oh my god more spiders!

If I was in charge of 6e I would make the deliberate decision to end the PHB at either 12 or 14 (12 is a quite neat number actually as you can have 3 tiers of 4 levels each). I would includ levels 13-20 in the epic level handbook (as you'd have to include them for Tradition's sake). I would...

Too me D&D is a rules set and a game structure and not really a setting. If the game is set in a world with fifteen different races, but features lots political intrigue and very little in the way of exploration and dungeons I probably wouldn't use D&D (although I feel I could if I really had...

See. That's just it. No one complains that the wizard can prepare both Animate Dead and Fireball! But the historical record is very clear, evocation reached it's peak in the late 13th century* and the major advances in necromancy didn't take place until the huge spikes in residual negative...

Yes, but I'm not sure they fully realised that, at least not at first. They did try and sell it initially with a dungeon crawl adventure that it was notoriously unsuited for. It's seems to be reflexive for WOTC, the future is always 'back to the dungeon'.

What they really needed to, and what 13th Age did, was to basically have lower level spell slots disappear as you level up. So it would be something like this Level 3: 4 2 Level 4: 4 3 Level 5: 3 3 2 It really doesn't matter if the number of lower level slots goes down (and eventually level 1...

I think most people don't actually want to go back to the dungeon.

It's the whole back to the dungeon thing. It makes a certain sense if you think of 5e as trying to emulate the basic old explore as far into the dungeon as you can style of play. (Even then it has issues, it's slower than something like B/X, making it a lot harder to get through all those...

100 years, 1000, seems like a dramatically different setting to me. Which is fine, I guess, it just seemed odd to want to change the setting that much, and then worry about changing things like Gully Dwarves and Kender. Personally I think the best thing to do with Gully Dwarves would be to...