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Grendel in Beowulf is called an “orcneas.”

If D&D were to get rid of/change any of the Archfiends, Baphomet would probably be the first to go, given the main theory around the origin of his name is it’s a corruption of “Muhammad.” I personally don’t think it’s a problem, because D&D Baphomet clearly isn’t based on Muhammad and his...

I don’t think including entities from dead religions is as much of an issue. The Gnostic groups that believed in Sophia died out long ago. It’s annoying how D&D used to make so many female characters and monsters be naked. And I’m pretty sure Sophia isn’t supposed to have a physical form.

Like @Shardstone said, each type of vehicle had its own stat block similar to the approach in Ghosts of Saltmarsh, but the different components of the vehicle had “Action Stations,” where a person could spend the action on their turn to operate it. So one person would control the “steering...

Damn it Wizards! Why can’t they give us actually interesting celestials?! It sucks that this one was cut. Hopefully they end up printing it in a different book or Monstrous Compendium. There are over twice as many Celestials in the 2024 Monster Manual than there were in the 2014 one, but that’s...

Sorry, this just reminded me of something I saw a while back:

The impression I had was that they were merging three subclass concepts together: the original Knowledge Domain, the Arcana Domain, and the idea of a psionic cleric subclass (like Eberron's Mind Domain).

The original 5e PDK was notoriously one of the worst and most boring subclasses in the game. It did a very, very poor job of emulating the niche that it was meant to represent. I don't care a bit about retcons so long as the change is good. I think it's disappointing that they seem to be...

This is awesome. I'd like to note that the word "ettin" is a cognate of the term "jotunn," from Norse mythology.

I actually like the war wagons and thought the idea was interesting. I can easily think of ideas for how to work that into an adventure. Maybe the party is asked by a benevolent Orc tribe to locate their lost war wagon. Or a dwarf stronghold that was recently attacked by an Orc tribe could send...

I really liked this subclass. I think it could use a few changes, but overall it's solid. The AC can definitely get crazy high with the right build and the lore that they serve all 4 genie types is a little weird, but not a big deal. I wasn't a fan of the last two Paladin subclasses WotC came...

Red. I thought this subclass steps too much on the toes of other Bard subclasses. It says it's the Fey bard subclass? We already have that, it's called College of Glamour. They record history and channel folktales with their bardic inspiration? Wow, they just stepped on the toes of the College...

Yellow. I think it could use some more thematic cohesion and a damage buff. It does less damage than most other rangers. Why do they get remove curse? What's with the "frightening" theme and abilities? I also thought their capstone doesn't seem like a Ranger subclass capstone. It seems more like...

I don't have any objection to the idea of a creature that's more aggressive than humans. I don't have a problem with Orcs being more aggressive or violent than humans. I'm not saying that core idea is racist or whatever you think I'm talking about. My point was that to me Volo's saying Orcs...

Not really. I did Karate for a few years, but that didn't really involve fighting. I have never been very athletic or gotten into an actual fight. Yeah, I generally consider people that massacre towns to be evil. There were playable Orcs in Eberron and Wildemount, but with different statistics...

I'm not going to respond to this in point by point breakdowns. Once discussions turn into that, that's where they stay and it bogs up the whole thread. I do not understand how someone would hear the lore "Orcs are inherently, genetically more bloodlustfull and violent than humans, and less...

Only if being beaten up by bullies when I was in school counts. PCs in my games don't typically kill their weak children, go on devastating raids that slaughter entire towns, sacrifice the victims to their gods, and take the survivors as slaves. The adventuring parties in my campaigns are...

Are D&D Orcs boxers? Is that the type of violence Volo's was talking about? Is it innate, genetic bloodlust and a lack of empathy that motivates boxers to do that sport?

This is utterly ridiculous and pointlessly pedantic. You are hyperfocusing on the (contradictory) minutia and ignoring the context which absolutely does support my point. It is the broader subjects of the book that paint the picture, even if a single bit of lore says they're not "innately evil,"...