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Well, high fantasy settings do tend to have the fallback excuse of ‘it’s literally magic’, like the order performs a special ritual to bond rider to dragon.

considering the topic is being considered i thought i might share this 12min video that came up in my YT feed

@TorgoTheWhite is post 20,730 just Mort's quote or am i not seeing something? if so should i assume your following post is meant to a response to said previous quote?

personally from what i can parse, with backgrounds being given more weight with origin feats i feel like PDK would probably fare better as a background with Inspiring Leader as it's origin feat, leave banneret as a more generic support fighter, though identify it as the 'traditional' PDK archetype.

see, i wouldn't call that deceptive railroading due to being so barefaced about it, deceptive railroading IMO would more be the 'quantum ogre' of plot progression, where whatever you do initially seems successful but ultimately only ends up leading you back into the planned plot without you...

fighter already has enough MAD issues to be giving them multiple extra stats to need to be distributing their boosts across a subclass

this may be a result of confusion between people using both the uses of determine? between the process of finding the equivalent meaning of the runes in a language they understand, and deciding the meaning of the runes they want AKA "hope for"

didn't they used to have like, aesthetically metallic bodies in a previous edition or something? that'd be a cool distinguishing look to bring back for them.

Post 20,000! Let’s give it up for post 20,000! Wooo!

well you like to assume you've done so, and so long as they don't just start trying to re-negotiate any of the principle terms of the campaign concept.

i can't say i felt like that response was meant to be taken in an entirely serious light, but that's just IMO. i feel there's less difference between them than you think, while i won't deny it doesn't happen GMs don't all go around banning species for the sake of it, but they have a premise and...

see, thing is when we propose a curated campaign it's less a caricature like the first and more, an inbetween of those: "Alright guys. I'm running a campaign inspired by Archaic Greece mixed with the Trojan War, the Greek city-states vs Persia but with lots of myth stuff. Lots of races you...

in hindsight i should've been more specific about meaning when they were first originally added, (although seemingly the sentiment still lingers among some), however as it has been mentioned how crudely the method of their addition was implemented of them being dimensionally airdropped into the...

Discworld alignments feel like they're actually set on the axis's of trope/genre savvy<->trope/genre unaware VS plays to them<->defies them

you know for a game literally named dungeons and dragons i'm kind of surprised that dragonborn get as much dislike as they do, i would've thought they'd fit right in.

is an adventuring group made up with all of them called a salad? :unsure:

well, the plant person concept extends past dryads being the sole basis, they don't need to make a player species with that limitation if they do make a plant person species.

ah yeah that's fair, probably not going to take out the 'neutral default' human as an option, that reminds me though, i've considered the concept of a full... pseudo-human..? setting, not being able to immediately visually tell a character's species, you've got humans obviously, but also...

i can't believe 5e still doesn't have a proper playable dryad option, plant people are, well, while not a favourite concept exactly are still very much a staple one, LotR even had the ent's for goodness sake even if those didn't get brought into the spotlight with the rest of the tolkien species.

i'd like to what would get created if the mould was broken a little more and the tolkien core four/five and their well-worn dynamics weren't inserted into every setting as default, what might you get with a setting where your baseline species are a lineup of, say, dragonborn, gnomes, kobolds...