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You're extrapolating from very incomplete information here. It may be gone, it may not be gone. But it's impossible to draw anything approaching truly definitive conclusions from a few bits of UA material. All we know for sure is that Defiling is done this particular way for this particular...

I wonder if they'll still have 5d4 for stats.

Combining some of the things I mentioned, Shakespeare's Troilus and Cresida is about 10 successive fanatics removed from its Homeric original.

Using the medusa as an example might not be the best choice, as there have been male medusae in D&D before 2024, most notably in Princes of the Apocolypse.

We have always been a civilization of artistic pillages and creative parasites. The ancient Greek tragedies pillaged their mythic traditions mercilessly. They rewrote Homer, for goodness sake! And precisely one of Shakespeare's plays, The Tempest, is his own creation - the rest were all his...

The real issue with Spelljammer was the page count. Give it say 32 more pages and use that for ship-to-ship combat rules and sample Wildspace systems (and how to create your own Wildspace systems), then it would have been fine. As it is, it's not totally bad, just incomplete. Well, other than...

I'm assuming validation in that it's the "official" version. I guess for me as a long, long term Doctor Who fan, it helps in this sort of thing that the show purposely reinvents itself every few years. If you don't like what you see now, well, you still have what you liked in the past (well...

There's also the opposite - nostalgia that so colors opinion in some that beside it everything new is considered to be "gray goop", no matter how colorful it actually may be (admittedly, sometimes it is gray, but nowhere near as consistently as some would have you believe). Sometimes people have...

It's a PHB illustration, for Hunger of Hadar.

It's just the recycled Hunger of Hadar illustration from the PHB. They aren't going to commission new artwork for a simple UA.

A lot if the old guard who were saying that have recently left. They could also just slap "mature audience" warnings on it, and have info in the text about potential issues with this sort of setting and advice on how to run it. A few months ago, I wouldn't have thought they would touch...

That's how every UA has been recently. Almost all of which have passed and gone on to be published with at most fairly minimal changes (other than the PDK).

The duality of humanity at work...

That's not just hinting at Dark Sun, thats a giant neon sign with spotlights and banner-pulling airplanes overhead.

Well, darn. I was all about to start up a furious Google image search for that illustration of the Lady of Pain on a skateboard!

There's obviously some unreliable narration either in Fizban's or in this - or both! Which, even if it's purposely keeping things a bit unclear, allows for player and DM choice in the matter.

Having quickly scanned through it, I will have to say, it is a gorgeous book. There's a huge amount of art, some of which we've seen before, but a lot that looks to be new. Also the scales on the cover of the book are raised, giving it a nice 3d feel when holding it. The first section is on...

Just got a notification that mine has shipped and will be here on Tuesday. I'll respond here once I've gotten it and taken a look through it.

Even if a majority says it's right doesnt make it objectively right. Only that a majority holds that subjective opinion. And WotC's threshold is 70% if I remember correctly, not 50% plus one.

But I, and others here, don't think that the PDK and (potential) Sammaster retcons are bad. And honestly, I didn't much care for the teifling retcons in that series - thankfully we're back to demon and yugoloth descended tieflings now, for example. There are, logically, only three possible...