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I just KNEW my beloved Bards would be last (but not least!). People have been asking in the chat of the videos' premieres if we'd have to wait until the end for our fave class and I just KNEW it would be mine. :( Especially given that they have given no indication that they took any of the...

The Greek Chaoskampf is echoes in the Titanomachy, but also in the Gigantomachy and the conflict between Zeus and Typhaon (the King of Monsters) & Echnida (the Mother of All Monsters). Typhaon and Echnida are the rough equivalent to Primordial Evil in the Hellenic pantheon, and best represented...

And for you, that makes sense. I'm just saying that while WotC has to ensure that the game doesn't break from multiclassing, they can't ASSUME that players will be using multiclassing when accounting for access to classic archetypes, because multiclassing is a layer of complexity that is...

4e has a lot of details into this stuff in books like Manual of the Planes, Player's Option: Heroes of the Feywild, and Demonomicon.

It's not about getting to 20th Level. It's about seeing that 20th level endgame feature, and realizing that if you multiclass NOW, you're cutting yourself off from your endgame powers. The FOMO for something you're they're not even going to get to scares off players. Multiclassing is also just...

The only magic setting that gets vaguely close is Amonkhet, and it's still quite a bit different from Dark Sun and not nearly as crapsack of a world. I don't think there's value in abandoning the IP, just that it's a VERY difficult setting to do right. 4e's version of it sold well, but it still...

Dip should never be assumed as baseline. Most players never want to touch multiclassing to achieve their character archetype due to missing out on endgame levels (might be less of an issue now that you can level up past 20th) or at the very least the slower leveling of power. I do think you...

The problem is settings like Dark Sun, where literally the setting falls apart or else has to have negative-continuity a la South Park, should the PC fix the bad things. I think it's quite reasonable to run a single Dark Sun campaign and then decide "okay we've SOLVED slavery!" and move onto a...

I find it interesting that Druidic Warrior is specifically NOT a Fighting Style here, but instead a Ranger class feature that can be taken instead of a Fighting Style. This explains the Feat quantities and what was ported over from Tasha's and what wasn't, and why they said all the Tasha's...

I agree that this list is like comparing the Greek/Roman/Celtic/Norse/Hindu/Persian pantheons and filing the serial numbers off at the similarities because they all share a common origin. I would argue the list takes inspiration from Semitic pantheons too, though, especially Egyptian (or at...

Any of those deities can be replaced with a sufficiently powerful enough "Great Power" from one of the other planes - Archangels, Titans, Demigods, Demon Princes, Archdukes of Hell, Primordials or Genie Lords or Elemental Princes of the Inner Planes, Archfey of the Feywild, Dark Lords of the...

In many Indo-European traditions, the Sun is female, and represents the eye of the Sky Father God (her father Dyeus-Pater). Sometimes she's merged with the Goddess of Dawn (Eos/Aurora/Ushas/Uzume), or sometimes the Dawn Goddess is fused with the Goddess of the Heights...

Correct. We're talking Hasbro, remember. They saw how much WotC is making on D&D and want them to make MOAR. For the first time in like EVER, since WotC bought TSR, D&D is a brand that is making top tier cash like MtG does. Oh, I agree. Some of the art makes me think the entities, but there is...

The other 4 are Lorehold, Prismari, Quandrix, and Witherbloom. I thought it was pretty awesome in Strixhaven. History and Archeology and Anthropology and Treasure Hunting; Arts, Dance, Music, and Explosions; Maths and Physics and Philosophy of Science; Politics, Drama, Rhetoric, Literature, and...

The risk is that Hasbro don't own the DM's Guild; they license their properties to DriveThru, who takes a cut of the sales (in addition to the indie creators on the Guild taking their own fair cut). This was set up in part because Hasbro didn't own D&D Beyond at the time. They identified the...

To be fair – there's broad thematic overlap between Woden & his son Thor, Gwydion and his son Lleu, Cian and his son Lugh, Hermes and his son Pan, Mercury (and Faunus after syncretism with Pan), and Pushan of the Rig-Veda. See below for an relatively detailed exploration of these overlaps...

Depends on the source. The Greek Titans are widely believed by scholars to be imports / analogues of Middle eastern religious pantheons, grafted onto a war between old gods and new gods to explain why the Hellenes worship the Olympians and not their forebears and not other gods of the region...

And the mountain heights (etymologically linked to Hahra Berezaiti of Zoroastrianism & the Burgundians of the Niebelungenlied), as well as the return of Spring (story of the Groundhog seeing the shadow is a descendant tale of Brigid coming out of her cave in late winter at Imbolg, to see how far...

Another vote for the Nerathi Pantheon, here.

The nice thing about the 3 hardcover MtG X D&D books was that they used the 5 colors really only for factions / deities rather than trying to force alignment onto it or twice D&D alignment and elementals into the 5 colors. The 5 colors are useful as an organizational principle, and these are...