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I know they appeared in Complete Adventurer, but even in 3e they were more a martial arts class than an expert or thief esque class. They just had too many other warriors to fit another into Complete Warrior and had to stuff the Monk somewhere. It's a reason why it's called as such and not...

I agree with that. But I do think conceptually this is the idea and why Elemental and Astral would not have their own spell lists here. The idea is to shrink the number of spell lists, not broaden them. You're of course allowed to homebrew whatever you want!

Mu. The Outlands, the Outer Planes, and the Astral Sea are all their own wanderers - their own planetos, their own planes of existence. They are not matroyshka dolls nor are they physically the same space except where and when they are. They are not floating in the Astral Sea. They overlap in...

THANK YOU. Finally someone answers my question. I watched all the videos but I must have missed that line while I was cooking one day while watching. However… it still doesn't mean that the Necromancer is necessarily in the PHB, if they do the Death Domain Cleric and Oathbreaker Paladin in the...

The description of the Primal spell list makes explicit that includes the elemental powers of the inner planes alongside the primal spirits of natural world. I'd argue that Astral is similarly included in Divine. Planar source of magic ≠ Magic Spell List. There's a reason why we never got a...

… '>_> … Monk was considered a Psionic class in 4e, not a Martial class. In any case, I agree with Mephisto. The mechanics have to surround and sustain a pre-existing flavour. The flavour does NOT flow from the mechanics; the flavour pre-exists the mechanics in the history of the fiction...

I would make the areas beyond the gatetowns into variations on the Backrooms that slide further and further into uncanny liminality until finally you're in the Far Realms.

The edge in a sense is that beyond the gate towns, the outer planes exist. But the Outlands also coexists beyond them. When a gate town gets too close in alignment to it's corresponding outer plane, the town shifts into that outer plane and "expands" it. But the Outlands don't shrink as a...

I agree with you, though I also think the base monk is ironically absurdly narrow in theme, where real world martial artists (if we're deciding Monks are the martial artist class and not something else) are not JUST Judoka or Sumo Rikishi -- heck, even Boxers use gauntlets. Aikido masters are...

I believe they have; I was just reading a lore article about the Outlands on Dump-Stat Adventures a few days ago, and that site coalesces information from published articles and books to make a comprehensible overview of each Planes. See the following four pages from their planes series...

Ravnica and the Blind Eternities are indeed another world between. Ravnica and Sigil share a lot of similarities too, but have their own factions. I could see some people using material from GGtR but substituting the Planescape factions and just Torus-ing the city to make it work. Heck, the...

Yes, but if you start with the mechanics before you know the concepts you want the class to represent, then you end up pigeon-holing your class into concept that only fit within the mechanics. 5e D&D classes are BROAD TENT. Paladins aren't just knights in shining armor, they're also wardens of...

I like Weakened as a condition a la stunned or prone! Poisoned could be a part of that condition, indeed, while what is now Poison Damage could be Toxic Damage and Poison could be key-worded to refer specifically to the concoctions that cause various conditions or detrimental effects. I also...

The Outlands are becoming interesting to me because the closer you get to Sigil, the less magic works and the more neutral-bargaining-ground they become. The further you get from Sigil, the more magic works, and the weirder things become as they bleed into the outer planes. I also REALLY want...

Damn, WotC making me actually care about The Outlands - previously the most boring part of Planescape (minus Sigil, of course, which is practically its own plane given that you can't actually enter it from its torus exterior). Sad. I liked Glitchling.

You're correct that mechanics create opportunities for narrative, and narratives should inspire mechanics. However, fiction drives mechanics. The fiction is and should always be first and foremost in an RPG like D&D. It's subtle, but important. Not all Monks should be Tanks, because the...

Right. Hence why the fiction of character archetypes should be directly supported by the mechanics of character archetypes. They should generate exciting ideas because we relate them to tropes and concepts we're familiar with. It's fiction forward, not mechanics forward.

I'm not sure where the idea that I'm nitpicking is coming from. I was throwing out examples from myths and folklore, not from history, fyi. But my POINT is that the Bard is broad scope by definition, and it makes more sense that a high level Bard would be synthesizing these power sources while...

Likely will get a Psionic Spell List later on when they NEED to tackle Psionics in a more extensive way for Dark Sun. Relatively easy to add a spell list in a campaign setting or a rules expansion book, and say that Bards can choose Psionic Magic instead of Arcane, Divine, or Primal Magic. (and...

Only because Yaarel's mythologically accurate Bard statement required them to be all 3 magic power sources. But moreso, I'd say it's because D&D isn't mythologically accurate, it's tropologically accurate. Mythological Druids are by and large Clerics, some might be Nature Domain, others...