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Settings either evolve with the player base or die from lack of use. Some evolve very slowly (but surely) due to a more niche audience, others swiftly due to a larger audience that shifts with the new blood coming into the fandom. Forgotten Realms was pushed by TSR as their Mainline, Header...

The difference is actually that it's not a Spell-granting Feat. It could have granted a Fear-based Cantrip or 1st level spell with X-ASM-limited uses per LR with 1 restored after SR, but it went for doing something not emulated exactly by the Wizard or the Bard just with the right spell choice...

Penalized is a strong term here. Both of those two backgrounds boost Wisdom, one of the Monks two most important ability scores. There is not reason the Monk can't take +2 Wis, and +1 to either Int, Con, or Cha (depending on either of these two backgrounds), and still play just as well. You do...

Here's the great thing: Tasha's Cauldron of Everything still exists and this sort of customization is part of the 5e ruleset. Did it make it into the 2024 Revised Core Rules? No. Have they forgotten that the Rules Expansions still exist? No. In fact, these two FR books say in many places "as...

While I agree that they could have provided more synergy in this one Origin Feat with the Background that triggers it, I actually think their 2-Feat Chains in the book go a long way to solving the problems with Subclasses kicking in at 3rd Level for classes where you'd have made your SC decision...

And yet -- it works well in the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide as a limited-scope setting gazetteer as opposed to justifying two whole books to cover just the Eurofantasy pastiche part of the setting (i.e., Forgotten Realms' new books). I still think that if not for the 50th anniversary, they...

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I have the book and the map (both FR volumes were released by my FLGS on Tuesday earlier this week). It lacks Zakhara, Evermeet. etc. There's a compass in the SW corner so as not to cover up any landmassesl There are arrows on the west and south edges of the map that point to Evermeet...

Or Drunken Fist Warrior. Tattooed Warrior shows that they don't need to use the "Warrior of X" phrasing like they awkwardly tried to back in 2014 version's "Way of X". But I don't think they should emphazise intoxication. Heck, this feels like how they decided to update the "Way of the Long...

I'd rather they adapt Kamigawa with both Champions block and Neon Dynasty subsettings. But Oni's Right Hand suggests we'll get Kara-Tur first. Please please please WotC don't call it Oriental Adventures when it comes west (f it comes west!).

I hope they rework the College of Whispers Bard for the Athasian Minstrel; maybe lean into Weapon Masteries or something to capture more of the Roguish/less magical flavour of the class. I also hope the Eladrin, Tiefling, Dragonborn, and Goliath lore carries over from 4e, as these were great...

I don't agree with half of your ideas, and I'm mostly satisifed with 5e 2024, but I agree with the theory approach behind this. D&D's role amidst all other TTRPGs is the jack of trades. It has to make sacrifices of the specific to mold to the general. But to be able to dial up into various...

Not quite this, but see Lorwyn-Shadowmoor (which will get an upcoming D&D setting booklet of some sort and is coming back to MTG next year). The setting is based on Celtic mythology elements and thus doesn't lack elves & dwarves and halflings, but it very specifically chose to omit Humans...

I was introduced to both early on by loving Rankin-Bass/Studio Topcraft (aka proto-Studio Ghibli)'s Flight of Dragons and their contemporary adaptations of both The Hobbit and The Return of the King (and The Last Unicorn to complete the quartet of these films, though that one is neither Tolkien...

Great point and I was completely forgetting this. I've played in quite a few pre-releases at my FLGS and I should have thought about that. I was reacting to the topic of cannabilization of Magic audience via MTGArena, but it's very true that physical is still required for MOST EDH/Commander play...

No spoilers please. I haven't seen the show yet, and others have already said as much as well.

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This is in part because of vastly different monetization schemata for the two most profitable Hasbro IPs. They've tried to monetize D&D on a booster-pack model in the past - Fortune Cards and D&D Miniatures come to mind. But In 5e, randomized booster Miniatures are gone, because it's just too...

And now I've read the thread, and do not feel cheated. I am glad it was bought back.

The problem with that is that race is a social construct, and even in real life, species is a construct that does not actually fit the "cannot interbreed" clause. Many are species that "do not normally interbreed." And then you have Oaks, where all the White/Swamp White/Chestnut/Swamp...