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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...

Lorwyn is sort of like the Feywild and Shadowmoor is sort of like the Shadowfell. Eldraine leans even more heavily into Feywild while Innistrad leans even more heavily towards Ravenloft/Shadowfell. The cool bits about Lorwyn-Shadowmoor is that it combines the two into one alternating plane, it...

Quite aware, loved that implementation. And I agree, though I'd argue that they intentionally obscure the Psionics of the Monk just as they moved away from outright magical Ki Power, because they want players to be empowered to flavour their Monk as Psionic or Divine or Primal or Martial or...

Drow as in Cow, by way of inheritence from the Trow, a Scottish/Northumberlander variant of Troll dating to the Danelaw, influenced by the Cumbrian and Gaelic speakers' accents mingling with those of Saxons and Danes up North. I say this as a proud descendant of families that included the word...

What about Golden Sun's elemental psynergy? This gets into the important point on the TV tropes page under Anime & Manga – East Asian media often conflates spiritual power, wizardry, martial arts, and psionics into one thing because there wasn't as much of a push back against esotericism as...

And 2e/3e/3.5/4e splatbook fever and their poor sales per book is why we only get a Rules Expansion for classes every 3 years or so in 5e. This is the fundamental challenge D&D struggles against, and a book entirely devoted to Psionics isn't going to cut it like it did in decades past.

Azers are dwarf-like elementals from the Plane of Fire. They're quite easy to fit into the world for anyone who has even a concept of Dwarves. Just lean into the FIAH bit. Remember, Our Dwarves are All the Same. I personally like to make Dwarves the material plan echo of Azers, Galeb Duhr...

It was supposed to BE in Tasha's, alongside the Artificer. Instead we got Aberrant Mind, Psi Warrior, and Soul Knife. It was NEVER going to sell a book on its own, it always needed other content to get it over the finish line and sell the books. But even with Tasha's Cauldron of Everything, we...

Wish they'd create a pdf version of the Free Rules like they did with the Basic Rules… At least they're keeping all PHB classes in from the getgo like with SRD, rather than just the core 4 in the Basic Rules.

So the free basic rules and/or a starter set? Essentials Kit also works similarly for this!

Psionics is magic without req components (material, verbal, or somatic), with a particular flavour toward the New Age, the Sci Fi, the Weird Fiction, and other non-medieval-high-fantasy assumptions. Mechanically, the components question is what it leans on. The reason a "Psionics Tradition"...

I just read (late to the party) that Adventurer's League is shifting gears to Legends of Greyhawk setting that is integrated with D&D Beyond rather than its own AL website. I know recent years of AL have opened up for play in the various annual campaign books as WELL as multiple seasons of...

Oh, the other possible 4th Rulebook would be to go the D&D Essentials route from 2010-2012 and publish a Rules Compendium that duplicates the core encounter (combat, social, etc), exploration, character creation, status effects, creature/monster/npc/pet stat block interpretation, downtime...