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Can’t be certain, I didn’t get opportunity to study it for long, but it was certainly a box labelled D&D not MtG. Of course, if it was it would have been a mock up not a finished product

Yeah, alchemist was still woefully underpowered, and armorer was completely borked.

They didn’t say anything officially, someone who was on staff at the time jumped the gun, including images of a boxed set and a date. Then there was a frantic effort from WotC to delete all mentions and images. It’s just occurred to me that it’s possible I got more time to see the stuff before...

One of my D&D players is quite well connected in MtG circles, they are my main source of gos. Yeah, MtG is flagging, and WotC are thrashing about trying to figure out how to reinvigorate it. Like D&D, their print costs are rising rapidly, but they don’t have enough popularity to significantly...

Same reason you have classes: to provide a range of mechanical options. Yep, mechanics has no effect on how you role play your character, how you role play has no effect on mechanics.

Yeah, very delayed. The original plan was to bring the D&D set out at the same time (there were leaks). My sense is that WotC have rather lost confidence in the ability of the MtG multiverse and Planeswalker metaplot to sell cards, and are casting around for other options.

Was fairly popular. Remember WotC has up to date market research on MtG, and I have noticed a significant demographic shift amongst players recently. Also, remember MtG is first and foremost a game that players want to win. Often sets are popular because players like the unique mechanics, not...

The 2024 don't tell you how to play an orc, or anything else, at all. You can play an orc, or a halfling with orcish ancestry, or a pixie raised by orcs, or whatever. That's supplied by the imagination of the player, not the rules. You just pick the species and background that is the best...

I usually discuss it with my players even before session zero. I usually give them a couple of suggestions about the themes and settings I'm interested in, and see what gets the most interest*. So the players have a good idea about the setting beforehand. Doesn't always work, of course. On one...

I expect this is is true, and what WotC's market research told them. Even many MtG players aren’t particularly interested in lore, and this one doesn’t seem to be a particularly popular setting, and mechanically complecated. Hence WotC axed the boxed set they originally had planned in favour of...

Because it makes it easier to role play interactions with them later on. And there is no reason the PCs can’t know each other before the campaign begins. They could be siblings, they could be rivals from school, they could be ex-lovers, etc. Look at the pregens from Dragonlance for example (AKA...

The thing is, not all players are interested in settings, backstories, lore and roleplay. Some just want to have a laugh and kill some monsters. A player who enjoys that sort of thing will be able to make the most weird character choices fascinating additions to the world. But a disinterested...

Deekin sing the Doom song now?

Unless we do the Time Warp again.

Flaming Fist are fantasy Pinkertons.

Pretty sure they accept recruits of any species.

In Baker's Exploring Eberron (good book, recommended by me) he has this to say about aasimar: He then goes on to add four additional subtypes of aasimar as well.

You need to read what Keith Baker has to say about this. He says there is a space for everything in Eberron, and it should be refluffed as needed. So, for example, if a player wants to play a tortle, they might have started out as a natural turtle who was mutated by the magical radiation of the...

I will just mention that you can get from Aber to Toril by spelljammer, and so a few Dragonborn will have made the journey before the mass migration. In which case, they are likely to have ended up near where there are spaceports, such as the Sword Coast.

Does it actually say that? Because if it does it’s wrong. Goblins are far more numerous than most of the PHB species. And aasimar are incredibly rare. You don’t get many angels making babies with mortals. There are probably more nothics in the world.