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One thing that I don't think has been mentioned is how long is the character expected to last? My campaigns typically last 1-2 years, so a player is going to be with the same character for a very long time. So they need to be very comfortable with them. And it also gives plenty of opportunity to...

Thanks to modern technology, there is no reason people need to be sitting in the same room together for them to not be isolated.

I don’t think it’s unachievable. Have you looked at the Exodus tabletop rules? They are still recognisably 5e despite having none of the classes, species etc.

It’s from Tolkien, and goes all the way back to 1st edition. And it’s made it into the PJ movies. Elrond recalls his vivid memories of things that happened a couple of thousand years ago for example. Therefore it’s part of the broader cultural perception of elves.

If I could do it myself I wouldn’t need someone else to do it for me.

No, they don’t. Try looking at non-Western cultures.

Fashions are not tied to magic or technology level. People can dress how you like whenever you like. Aside from Eberron, the other place you are likely to find a lot of artificers is Calimshan, where you can assume they wear fantasy-Persian outfits.

You can fluff it how you like. There was an Adventures of Sir Lancelot TV series in the 1950s, that was standard pseudo-medieval. And that made Merlin an artificer.

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Personally, I think a setting should not dictate the type of adventure that takes place there. It should be limited to describing people, places, history, physical and magical laws. etc. The style of storytelling should be left to the players.

Comparing the depiction of Thrawn in Zahn's novels with his depiction on TV is a good example of this. In the novels, he is generally depicted as right, if ruthless. But on the TV he has been reduced to an always-in-the-wrong villain. Attempts to deviate from B&W morality in Star Wars have been...

Not even tieflings would have made Gone with the Wind anything other than a racist snooze-fest.

That idea is silly. The rules are deliberately generic so they can be easily customised, any setting designed around them would be utterly boring. Clearly, in order to make a setting that is remotely interesting it is necessary to modify the core rules. Indeed, that is the intent of the design.

I know a couple of humans like that. However, when I played an elf, I did it like this: They had been married to a human and lived in a human-dominated city with them were they had family and friends. Then he had watched them all grow old and die, whilst he was still no yet middle aged. As such...

When it comes to how elven memory works in the Forgotten Realms, it’s pretty well established in the lore from older editions. I see no reason to suppose that has been changed by new rules that avoid saying anything about lore as much as possible.

I would much rather see more support for existing settings (e.g. Ravnica) than yet another one-and-done. I’m not in the market for a new D&D setting myself, whatever they put out, I wouldn’t buy it. Commercially, there is a gap in the market for a low magic low fantasy historically inspired...

I did once jump of a moving train at about that speed, when I nearly missed my stop. When I was young and foolish of course. I wouldn’t do it now. Trains have safety doors.

You don’t need to be so slow for that. Raiding a train on horses is a Western trope. Over a short distance a horse can do up to 40 mph, which is about the top speed of an Old West train. Thing is, slow moving trains are very vulnerable, especially over wide open spaces. I think that...