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Oh come on Micah, you know well enough how I take these "Oh these monsters should just always be evil like they were in the old editions and we should never change from then!" posts. What next, we want to bring back the old Encounter Table - Mars ones, for all of those people clamouring for John...

Well, too late because D&D orcs have never been interesting and people prefer orcs being more than just "The stock humanoid enemy". More interesting types of orcs from Warhammer and Warcraft absolutely crushed D&D orcs, so they're the pop culture standard nowerdays I think the aim is to have...

Energy, specifically Aether and MTG Mana. A whirling, chaotic vacuuum of space, mana and energy. Like, the most equivilent it has to anything in D&D is the Weave, except if the Weave touches all dimensions and you can hop to other realities through there, and completely unconnected to gods to...

Nope, only has the Eldrazi. Anything that doesn't have a Planeswalker spark is not powerful enough to be there and isn't going to last Its not the Shadowfall, its not aligned with death. Its just somewhere you're not supposed to be. There's no negative, no positive, it is just "This is not a...

The Astral has all of its hangups, though. The Blind Eternities doesn't. Astral's chock full of things, its all timeless and whatnot, this is all stuff that doesn't apply to the Blind Eternities. It isn't a place you visit and have adventures in, its a place that tears you to shreds unless...

I mean, I think it got more than Jakandor did in like. I genuinely forget Jakandor is a D&D setting and I keep thinking its some third party one that got roped in by accident before I remember, no, it is first party.

I mean, I think we know the reasons pretty well. Its too far from the D&D standards and just isn't that popuar to put the effort in to put everything down Back in 2015 when they did that setting survey, Birthright was in the survey if I remember right, but sure didn't mention it in the results...

Yeah, I'm surprised Birthright's come up this much compared to Mystara (which at least gets mention every now and again) or Council of Wyrms. While Mystara's the likely and easy "Bring this set back from the dead, give it a light polishing and release" if they chose to do one, Council of Wyrms...

I mean, I remember how it was when I started in 3.5E I looked at anything with cool art and lore, and stayed away from anything that looked too complex to run That's lore, not utility. Its one and the same

Its never been about utility, though? Its always been a description of what these things are and how they operate. Even 1E and 2E is like this, especially 2E Charts are useless to a new DM playing through, but a picture and a description explaining "This is what a Beholder is, where they can...

I mean, frankly, the issue is they shouldn't have made the PDK a class to begin with back in 3E and should have just made it a title you can get as a paladin or something. Its never worked, not once. 3E's is so terrible that, even in Neverwinter Nights, an engine that smooths over a lot of the...

Flumph lore gives you ideas on how to use the creature, worldbuilding ideas to use in your game, ideas for a setpiece your players can stumble into and go "Huh, cool, this is a neat thing as we help these weird jellyfish things who have been feeding off the psionic emninations of THE ENTITY and...

As someone who was introduced to the PDK in Neverwinter Nights, I don't understand why it even exists as a option. Its just an order of knights, yet it keeps coming back as a seperate class or subclass Back in Neverwinter Nights, the PDK was, genuinely, the worst class in the game. And this is...

A real life rex is only around 12-13 ft tall so being a whole 10 feet taller but weighing less sounds more like issues with giant weight Whales get way bigger than that (comparable to the largest sauropods) but they're not in giant, always been in animal.

Nah, dinosaurs are just average creatures. Vast majority of them aren't giant anyway. Your average Velociraptor is only about the size of a turkey after all, and even ones we generally associate with being huge like the Tyrannosaurus are still dwarfed by your average D&D giant

Fey stuff is widely gaining in popularity and it wouldn't be the first thing D&D grabbed from outside sources. You can see Spelljammer was released around when anime was gaining in popularity due to it having Guyvers and Aura Battlers, for example D&D's always been moved by pop culture, and...

To drag things back from alignment Generally D&D's been pretty low with actually hostile Fey creatures. The closest have been Fomorian which, well, haven't been treated as Fey, they've always been Giants, and Hags haven't been Fey for the longest time either. More things under the Fey label...

They turned up in Warcraft once as just a 'yup, we're doing a Joust reference' series of quests, so they really just fit anywhere guys flying around on bird things can fit

I found an entire of Monster Hunter inspired creatures and just regularly use them with new names. I've also intended to drag Seekers from Ark into things once or twice, good ol' light-eating bat-squids they are and all, but haven't really had the chance

Race is the wrong term ever since Tieflings came along back in original Planescape in 1994, who are pointedly not a race. The term has been wrong for over 30 years. Generally speaking any time "Random feature table" comes out you're more "Random by-product of your history" and not a race by any...