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No. The PHB is default lore and is setting neutral, which is why it says how things are done in various settings out there. The default setting is the Realms, but that doesn't make the default core lore apply to the Realms. Those are two different defaults. Setting and core rules.

Dragons CAN produce Dragonborn. Not Dragons ALWAYS DO produce Dragonborn. As I said earlier, it's a reasonable thing to make up, but it's not written Realms lore. Going only by what is written for the Realms, they are all from Tymanther. Sure. You can make that up. It's not written in the...

There is no squeeze. I can create a large island in the middle of the ocean, populate it with Ewoks, have some rebel scum and a Jedi land there to take out the force field generator, and then have a giant space battle over that island on a planet which they call the Moon of Endor, and nobody...

You don't need to shoehorn or "fit" Dragonborn into any official setting. Even the Forgotten Realms, which is by far the most detailed with lore, only spells out maybe 1% of the world's lore and population. I can drop in 100 new races and their lore without "fitting" or "shoehorning" them in...

Perhaps in 4e. 1e, 2e, 3e and 5e have had crap for high level advice. I didn't play 4e, so I suppose there could have been some there.

And? How does that in any way contradict what I just said? There have been just as many decades with no guidance for high level play. More in fact. There has never been guidance on how to run high level games.

It is lore. It's not much. Almost nothing in fact, but it is lore and it informs us on where we can find Dragonborn. I'd leverage the Flaming Fists if I were playing a Dragonborn in Baldur's Gate and I didn't want to create a different mercenary company. The odds of no Dragonborn being among...

I'm not holding my breath, or even arguing that they will do it(poorly or well). I'm simply saying that it's a self-fulfilling prophecy not to provide guidance for high level play and then say, "Look! No one is playing high level!" They've created that situation through their lack of high...

So your argument is that it's canon that they are spread throughout the Realms, but that they don't exist anywhere outside of Tymanther because nothing explicitly is typed out as to where they are? As far as I'm concerned "spread throughout the Realms" means that they are all over. In every...

That's the invention that @Hussar said I had to stay away from. As DM I can make that happen, but going strictly by 5e lore, they are all from Tymanther.

That's the whole point. The article is just one version of pure fantasy.

Two reasons, one of which I just gave to not far back in the thread. The other is that the DM's Guild is horrible for getting the product out to the overwhelming majority of D&D players, who don't use it. It needs to come from WotC in an official product or it will be of no use.

Spelljammer was a badly done 5e setting, yes. The new Forgotten Realms was a well done one by all accounts. Why should I assume that Dark Sun would be done badly?

Lizard people. They don't look anything like The Dragon. You've said this twice now, but I still have no idea what you mean by it.

Incorrect. They are all from Tymanther as far as I know. I don't have the new book, so that might have changed. Going with 5e lore only, Tymanther is where they are all from. Again, incorrect. The Dragonborn lore explicitly says that they have spread throughout the realms as fine...

Yes and no. They are "common," because they are on the planes, but they are by no means as common as humans. Not even close. They're just more common than on say Toril or Oerth. When it talks about the planar races, it says Humans, Githzerai, and Half-Elves. Then it says and also some more...

Making a high module for general consumption cannot be done well, because it has to appeal broadly to people, and that means monster fights, traps, etc. which don't do high level well. It's a catch 22. They need to not make high level adventures, but teach DMs how to do it themselves. There...

Right. As I said, nobody has taught them how to do it right, so they do it wrong and just try to make it about fights. You're just proving my point here. I've run dozens. Just not pre-written ones, because they generally aren't very good.

There's zero reason for them not to exist as color coded. There are no color coded dragons, so the color coding would just be something that is a part of their race, not something connected to color coded dragons. Color coding therefore would not be anything the people would use to connect...

No idea. As an NPC he doesn't need that history in his position. He has a history, but it's up to the DM to provide it if for some obscure reason it becomes relevant. You can write up as part of your background a connection to Candle Keep and how you befriended Skoda(Bookwyrm), staying up...