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Except Patfhinder 1E also failed to address many of the balance issues. I would argue that they were so fundamental that a drastic redesign was necessary. Granted, 4E threw out some babies with the bathwater, but it was extremely dirty bathwater that needed to be discarded.

How do you mean this? Was 4E not literally designed to address the common pain points of 3E? Imbalanced classes, too many skills, trap options, unreliable CR, etc?

...I mean it's not like the guidelines helped get monster balance right in 3E either so I really don't see that as a strong argument. Robust monster guidelines with balanced math goes a lot farther than trying to build them by the same rules as PCs--like 4E after Monster Manual 3 fixed the math.

Plenty of 5E NPCs are also classed, they even started adding it as a tag like (demon) or (titan). What a lot of us (I think) are wary of is the 3E conceit that adding class levels to an NPC means adding all the same features that a PC of that class would get--class features, Feats, etc.

What a clever way of mapping Sigil. Very nice.

Fair! My other thought would be reducing HP growth for PCs, but that seems like a change for a full edition number, not something trying for backwards compatibility.

...Okay but do you really want to go back to doing that? Because I would much rather spend my time playing the game and less time prepping it.

I'm honestly not sure what the answer is for 5E. Arcane Burst came about for the same reason that monster damage increased so much in the 2025 Monster Manual... because the old versions weren't hitting as hard as their CR would recommend, at least not without customizing their spells and running...

I'd vote for Glasya, to answer the OP's question. Corrupting and destroying a slice of paradise seems like her MO.

Also you can more or less just use the rules from those games. It's close enough.

I mean Dragonborn from 2024 PHB and Gem Dragonborn get wings and a flight speed (temporarily) at 5th level so if my player picks one of those versions they can (temporarily) have wings... but yeah otherwise not by default.

I meant to vote for Goliath and not Gnome. I like having options and Goliath has lots of options.

That goes back to how some settings have heroes as the enforcers of a relatively benign quo where the villains are those who threaten the normal operation of the world. These are easy to make long term RPG settings because you can always come up with a new threat. Dark Sun is another type of...

I never read the books. Honestly barely watched the show, I know it mostly from pop culture osmosis. I always figured that Ice referred to the frost zombies and the fire was the Dragons. So sort of Daenerys but not her precisely.

Honestly the main addition I made running Dark Sun was Shardminds. The idea was that a fragment of the Living Gate fell to Athas millions of years ago, before it was cut off from the rest of the multiverse, and getting burried deep underground. Though, a lot of it was blasted into fine dust and...

I never even connected the titular song to Snow and Danerys.

Thought I was about to get introduced to some rare D&D lore I'd never heard of.

What are Henadi?

The planes generally do all have their own common languages. Well, not the Shadowfell in default D&D. Kobold Press introduced Umbran. Material Plane = Common Upper Planes = Celestial Lower Planes = Abyssal or Infernal Mechanus = Modron Feywild = Sylvan Elemental Planes = Primordial

Incidentally if anyone is looking for a quick and dirty conversion prior to whatever WOTC officially creates, I made one a few years ago for a game that sadly ended for reasons beyond my control.