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We had a lot of those in 4e with the changes made to them for the World Axis cosmology as well as for fitting into Dark Sun. Stormsoul was a core Genasi type alongside the core 4 Genie descendants, showing up in the Forgotten Realms Player's Guide. Here they were a displaced people brought...

Oddly, Humans, Tieflings, and Aasimar can all be small, but Elves and Dwarves are Medium-locked. Honestly, outside of something like Goliath where the fiction is literally you want to play a GIANT but be balance, I let any PC species choose between Medium or Small. And even with Goliath, if a...

They really haven't. Kithkin have always been the in-universe Halflings of MtG. Halfling creature type was created to refer to Halflings by their actual species name in the D&D Crossover sets and this had dividends because then they could refer to Hobbits as Halflings in the LotR set without...

Or maybe Dryads - remember that in the 2024 MM they're not exclusively female-presenting, and could very easily represent a playable PC Spp of Treefolk (albeit a younger sapling rather than a full Treant). Honestly, this solves the "tree person PC species" connundrum D&D has had for its entire...

Agreed, but it's an easy mistake to make and pronunciation differs between English dialects, let alone when translating into other languages but wanting to keep their own trademarked terms. Aasimon was introduced as a term in the TSR era to get the religious fear mongering off D&D's back, just...

Vanara are also one of the species in Oriental Adventures 3e that were included despite not being featured in Rokugan, so they're not locked behind the Legend of the 5 Rings IP. I do think WotC want to tread carefully when doing East Asian-inspired fantasy. Vanara might fit into Kara-Tur, but...

You gave a Watsonian explanation for why not; mine was the Doylian explanation for why given at the time. I wasn't saying that Devas = Aasimar in lore; I was saying that Devas replaced Aasimar in 4e because people thought Aasimar and Aasimon are words that suck aas. I'm fairly certain that...

I meant I'm pretty sure it was because I remember hearing discussion at the time that it was, as opposed to the coincidentiality of Shadows over Innistrad / Curse of Strahd, Kaladesh / Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron, and Ixalan / Tomb of Annihilation (confirmed by the author of the Plane Shift...

Radiant Citadel is the best of the anthologies.

Honestly, there's quite a few recent classics for me. The Adventure Anthologies have mostly been classics for me, especially Journeys Through the Radiant Citadel, which was as much a setting/adventure sandbox as it was an adventure anthology. Infinite Staircase is similiar for me, introducing...

I love the Legends & Lattes series! :)

Target audience is 3rd party content creators, not play groups looking for free game rules. Weeks implies 2-7 weeks, because at 8 weeks+ they'd say months, while they'd never say "about a month" or "2 weeks after" because that would lock them into a timeframe people would be mad at when they...

The Quom, from The Plane Above: Secrets of the Astral Sea. I was always disappointed we didn't get more of them. And if we had gotten a Player's Option: Heroes of the Astral Sea, I really thought we would have gotten them as a PC species. But 4e was cancelled a year too early for that book...

Yeah, gotta say the vast majority of fantasy novels I see on the shelves these days are a mix of Romantasy in both the YA and "adult" novel sections, and straight up Fantasy in the JR & YA sections - with a strong emphasis on diversity of fantastical settings (a lot of East Asian inspired, but...

Don't forget Dwarves (Duegar) as a core tribe in Shadowmoor. We just didn't see their Lorwyn equivalent. I'd love to see Noggle's Lorwyn equivalent too. I also wonder if they can get away with Merrows = Tritons; the reason Triton as a species worked in Mythic Odysseys of Theros was that Merfolk...

Sounds like 3e's Unearthed Arcana

That gave me a thought. I feel like Lorwyn-Shadowmoor and Shards of Alara blocks really had thematic overlap with 4e D&D's cosmos. It was like Shards of Alara explored the Elemental Chaos (what happens if we take these pure-color/elemental planes and smash them up into one conflux of a world)...

YES. Especially Dark Crystal vibes. I love that comparison. But also yeah, James Wyatt is great.

Was in the middle of looking up what Wldraije meant when I saw you updated your post. Google at least asked me "did you mean Eldraine?" Ecosia thought I meant Eldridge. Honestly, that spelling made me think more of Eldrazi than anything.

Agreed. The little DDB supplement was nice but I'd have liked at least something like the Planeshift articles. An Artbook like what we got for each block of 2015-2019's Gatewatch Saga (save Ravnica due to Guildmaster's Guide) would be lovely too. The other thing I like about Lorwyn-Shadowmoor...