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One one hand I need to poke at how they did their Firbolg, as I'm trying to get 5E style ones over to NWN (because 1-3E style Firbolgs are as easy as 'rescale human' which. I already got that for other giants and titans) but then I cackled at the Hyur, Elezen, Roe and Garleans

I hardly think its a 4e-ism. Its how the game's always been like this because its genre fiction and not trying to emulate real life, even back in AD&D. Like, I'm not even counting the "Rules as written, your regular fighter dude can easily just recruit the services of an elephant-eating giant...

Its hardly the 4E way (and honestly based on a lot of complaints I've heard about 5E, I suspect people do got a bit of fondness for 'everyone can make tactical decisions in combat'), it dates back to Dragonlance at the very least. The general Internet vibe of D&D has rarely placed much influence...

Yes, Har'akir had one settlement that was always noted as being small and tiny, because that was . I know way more about the monster books than I do the main setting books, and let me tell you, there are way too. Like, the monster books are running under the assuption of multiple towns and...

What are we even saving from the old ones? Har'Akir has a city now, which was.... Basically implied by the number of Egyptian-themed critters in every single. Seriously, you could not find a place for all of those Egyptian critters in the domain as written in 2E Falkovnia was trying to be...

oh no why do I have to reveal how much I know about Fate lore okay so its loosely like your pop-culture knowledge of Arthurian lore, including some of the more obscure stuff like Merlin being a cambion and Lancelot's whole states of madness, but Artoria is a woman. Which is also their...

You know exactly what Darklord I'm talking about. Why was he one in the previous books? What great crime did he do to have the Dark Lords drag him in? Because frankly, Harkon was just put in there originally to have "Oh you came prepared for a werewolf but its not, I tricked you!" the domain 5E...

Then what, we just kill every setting because 30 years ago someone wrote some half-baked module on minimum concern for a magazine article, and apparently that half-baked one-off module has such cosmic concern to the ongoing narrative that we can't just ignore it and instead need to either stick...

The problem is at lot of what's already happened is kind of, bad. Ravenloft is the big example of this were a lot of the domains are Just Bad. Not like 'evil bad' but 'I kind of get where you're coming from but man you didn't just fail to stick the landing, you ruined it' There is a point where...

"BLOOD AND BOOBS, the D&D supplment" seems a one way trip to rpghorrorstories if you ask me If we want mature, I want more. Y'know. Writen mature. "Here's two factions. There is no Good or Evil. There are good people on both sides. There are evil people on both sides. They are going to fight...

Jokes on them, Spelljammer has Bionoids (which are just. Guyvers) and Spirit Warriors (which are just. Aura Battlers). The anime's been in there since Spelljammer! I will say though in respect of the new settings, the ones left over are a bit of a harder sell to new audiences. As much as I love...

I mean, I know why they didn't touch a lot of the previous Darklords and that's that a lot of them were kind of. Bad. Its best to think of the Dark Powers as directors, who are absolutely willing to reinvent and re-cast the Darklords as necessary for a new audience. Because man, some of the 2e...

Honestly I doubt we'd see Deities and Demigods because not only did it cause legal troubles with the whole Cthulhu crew, but folks basically treated it as an extended monster manual, except this time you could kill the gods and shatter their thrones Surprisingly one of the few not playable in...

Speaking of more AI mess-ups (hi its me I got an avatar its everyone's favourite prehistoric jawless fish sacabambaspis) Just an archeological description of a scimitar getting its wires crossed with either Dungeons and Dragons or Elden Ring due to using AI to write the document are we really...

No. The conclusion is AI proliferation will lead to experts in fields losing their jobs and mass waves of false information spreading because you've fired people who can actually research. Case in point, the AI 'statement' up-thread based on "Absolutely nothing". Heck, we're already seeing it in...

On Slaad, my favourite version of them came from 4E. Their gimmick there was they really hated how reality was bound and all the infinite planes of the multiverse weren't accessible any more, so they tended to just. Bite at the problem. Just eating away the fabric of reality. As you do Plus...

Dangit, I was coming in here to post this exact same image But yeah, DM being a jerk and not accepting 'huh maybe I shouldn't screw around with absent players, almost like they'd be a bit pissed off' as an answer

Honestly, there isn't that much talk about BG3 going on outside of the D&D sphere. The bear scene got a talk and some people interested, but its not like, Hollow Knight 2 levels of hype or anything like that

I mean, I've been sitting on a bunch of 'man I loved playing that old Metalurgy mod for Minecraft plus Tinkers that let me make some crazy weapons' for a while. Y"know, just. Go into the mystical fairytale dimension to get mythril and fantasy metals, go to hell to get fun stuff like Vyroxeres...

Nah. Plenty of thieves don't use magic. No reason for 'em to be required to delve into magic unless they want to