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How do you put culture into the PHB without assigning a default setting? You would need to create specific cultural elements (language, religion, dress, tradition, etc) for them to matter, and unless you want the PHB to define every culture of elf on Oerth, Faerun, Krynn, Eberron, Athas, etc...

Hi, let me help. I'm not going to pretend I remember all the details of a game that happened over a decade ago. But let me give what I can recall. We had encounters with the Lich over a decade of adventures. Each time was (retconned) into dealing with a simulacrum with a fraction of his...

Minsc and Boo Journal of Villainy

Oh I absolutely get them wanting to get these in front of Astarion fans ASAP, but I also gotta believe some if not all of them are getting into some Ravenloft/horror book next year.

I got it to load in the app thankfully

Me too, but now clicking on it redirects me to the purchase screen and tells me I own it! You'd think they would have figured this out...

Apparently it's live for purchase, but when I tried to buy it, it said I already own it. (Spoiler, the only thing I own is the 2014 PHB and whatever they've given away for free).

Nice third option, good spell choices but not as good as MS for your free 2nd. Fey is superior, but better than Shadow.

@GarrettKP pointed out the big differences: the VRG ones didn't have to breathe, didn't have necrotic resistance, and could be taken later as a lineage (which kept any racial skills and movem types) or gave you two skills if you didn't keep anything special. Basically, they made them a regular...

Interesting. I fully expected them to go the other way and lien into the undead thing. Well, time to retire the crystal ball I guess. Disappointed they removed the idea of lineages, but I guess too many flying aasimar Dhampirs...

Ok I gotta ask. What did they change with dhampir (if anything)?

The argument was if you are an elf, you can pick an origin feat of your choice (such as magic initate or lucky) but if you want to be a half-elf, you sacrifice that origin feat for your species traits. Which means even if the "elf hybrid" feat is equivalent to other origin feats, you are still...

Concept =/= execution

WotC uploads/updates early morning Pacific time, so not until early afternoon east coast or later in Europe

Every time people try to fix 5e, they accidentally invent Pathfinder 2e.

It was suggested a while back that hybrid species could be emulated with an origin feat you swap out (or take as a human) and that was rejected as a feat tax on playing a half-elf. Then again, today we are supposed to be getting 16 "vampiric" feats so let's see what comes of that.

See, that's what I think will happen and it's what should happen. But the fact remains that there are going to be a lot of DS fans who will howl at the betrayal.

Magic is magic except for the whole "wizards are killed on sight" thing. Tolkien did not invent the whole of Western fantasy. So a lightsaber would be appropriate for Dark Sun because it's good for stabbing monsters. Noted. Advanced D&D. You claimed Dark Sun was reverting to pre-AD&D (OD&D)...

Nope. OD&D still had Gods and Arcane magic that didn't ruin the ecosystem. It had goblins and orcs and beholders and real dragons. It had plate mail and steel swords. It didn't have psionics everywhere. It was strictly an inversion of what came before. So did plenty of other RPGs at the time...

Nah my dude, part of the pitch for DS is that it took all the D&D tropes and flipped them 180 degrees. Every race is different, every class heavily modified, the default psionics system, arcane magic dangerous, divine magic changed or non-existent. Almost all the classic D&D monsters don't have...