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Well! Any thoughts on the outlined adventure thoughts?

That -suuuucks-... but also... https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/lamb-consumption-by-country https://www.helgilibrary.com/indicators/sheep-and-goat-meat-consumption-per-capita/new-zealand/ It's down from 14kg last year to 13kg this year. (So far). Now that's -obviously- down...

For the same reason most Americans don't understand New Zealand's lamb 'obsession'. You don't have much access to it! A well roasted turkey has a crispy delicious skin, juicy meat, and takes other flavors as well as chicken if not better. After dismantling that bird I tore the breasts into...

In case anyone's curious how the bird came out: Everything under the wire grill is diced aromatics and turkey drippings.

As I roast a spatchcocked turkey in the oven, I am considering what kind of adventure would best suit such a setting and style. And I am forced to admit, perhaps unsurprisingly, that the episodic structure of the 80s shows would actually make a really great way to handle things and help to give...

Yes, it is! And also no it isn't. There's overlap, there. Any setting WotC puts out is going to result in -some- playerbase splitting. As people who want to play in an Eberron campaign and people who want to play in an FR campaign won't be sitting down at the same table to play together in...

The only people who can do that are WotC because it's their intellectual property. And they're not going to do it because it would be direct competition for the Remembered Realms. Ehhh... sure? But that requires forethought some 50ish years in advance for some settings. And for some settings...

I don't really mind new species, obviously. I just think they should be tailored to their worlds and have the settings built with them in mind. Rather than being all "Well. Everything in all these books now exists in every setting, forever." I also hate the "All tieflings look like this, now...

Or they could've not made Dragonborn core to FR and instead kept them on the fringes. Or they could've revealed some effort by various dragons to imbue their power into mortals. Or they could've introduced a hidden enclave of Dragonborn. Or made the Spellplague turn people into dragonborn. Or...

It's 5e based, so similar benefits and penalties to other core races. Humans, elves, dwarves, orcs, and goblins will probably be pretty much the same. For Giantkin I'm planning on doing a Goliath style thing for them, powerful build and all. Harpies will get a fly speed of 40 but be unable to...

'Cause I don't want dragonborn in the setting. I don't like them and don't want them to take up a big "Front and Center" identity slot. Which is, ultimately, what 4e did and got carried into 5e. Meanwhile, Harpies and Dragons both share a position within most narratives of being broadly...

But I don't wanna do -any- animal people at all. I'm just acknowledging that furry/scaley is where a lot of folks are headed. So I'm making a space for them and their harengons and tortles and stuff without reprinting 2 dozen different animal heritages as 'core' to the setting.

So. Species for a setting. My thoughts on a list are: 1) Humans. Gotta have 'em. 2) Elves. With massive species variety. We're talking "Two elves walk into a bar and now there's a bar elf species" 2a) Eyre Elves. High elves. They live in the mountain ranges and have marvelous fairy tale...

I'd rather WotC be a privately owned business rather than one arm of a massively publicly traded company. It'd still be the 800lbs gorilla in the room, but it'd be a hell of a lot friendlier and innovative.

Always.

I'm considering just throwing up a Patreon to see who might support the project along the way. Do weekly design updates, polls for material people want to see, things like that. Maybe even do raffles for one person a month to just tell me what they want and have me make it for them, specifically.

Definitely gonna have to rearrange a few abilities... Put Ritual Casting down a level, put Swordmage Aegis up a level. Put Grand Arcana in at 6th level...

We'll have to see where it goes, but I definitely haven't thrown away any of the material I wrote for a prospective Occult Omens.