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Why do you think it's required that the nations need to only make sense for a 5E setting? You seem to be misunderstanding the goals. The goal is that each of these nations holds a place for the core races of the 5E setting. A 4E could for examle include Goliaths, but they aren't a PHB 1 species...

I don't think every race needs a single nation just for themselves. It depends on your preference if they even start all out as "racist" nations - quite possibly they didn't, nations only forming after the different ancestries were already found all over the world, but maybe that's where they...

No, they just wanted to create a new setting that used all the 3rd Edition conceits and ideas, and that didn't stop it from adding stuff that definitely went beyond the core 3rd Edition rules, like Warforged, Changlings, Shifters, Kalashtar, Artificers and son on. It was really supposed to be a...

Yeah, that would be also something I wish could be represented better in D&D. I am not even sure that Clerics and Paladins should only worship one god, or that every god has their own Clerics and Paladins. More fitting might be that Clerics and Paladins are priests related to gods that...

As it happens, just now I am playing around with the Worldographer again to prepare a bit for a Diamond Throne campaign, converting the map from the 3.x book into a hex map...

Hah! Reminds me when we were making the German equivalent of something like a "High School News Paper" (Abizeitung) and we had a poem called "In the Looking Glass" and intentionally mirrored it (crazy what was possible with the Mac publishing software we ha in the 90s already). But when we got...

I seem to remember 4E also used a lot of pre-existing gods, didn't it? If it works, it works. I don't agree with the appraoch to making the gods linked to classes, though. Doesn't inspire me, not how I would do it. I might use it as inspiration to have each class list 3 deities its members...

I think that might be one of the reasons PF2E, despite some comparisions to 4E, feels very different. It's not that 4E doesn't also have lots of conditions and situational modifiers, but Pathfinder seems to be much more focused on that and a lot less on maneuvering and forced movement. Arguably...

I am not sure what your point here is in regards to the original reason we talked about this. What you write doesn't change anything about the issue: When your choice of Patron is only finalized at Level 3 of the Warlock class, the first 2 Warlock levels, the GM can't integrate it as easily into...

Oh man, i am getting nostalgic for 4E. Epic Destinies were surprisingly simple constructs and yet really worked well to sell their narrative and make you feel Epic.

You can choose to say: "I will become a Fiendish Warlock at Level 3" as a player even before you created your character, way before you become a Level 3 Warlock. However, only at Level 3 do you actually finalize the decision. What if you don't decide at character creation, at Level 1, at Level...

I think the formatting broke in some manner. The spoiler tags seem not to be correctly nested or something? Thanks for the work of the handbook, though!

The problem is that at 1st level, the patron is not defined. It could be celstial, fiendish or fey, and that put constraints on how you roleplay such an interaction and and/or the personality to leave the final choice undefined. You either need to be stay extremely vague, or allow for the patron...

I wonder if the misunderstanding about the Warlock invocation boost being limited to Eldrtich Blast is because the Beyond character generator is mentioning the power its name, and I haven't figured out yet how to change it to a different one.

I ... I had a friend I've heard of someone in school that broke his arm tying his shoe laces...

I don't know I'd agree that Dracula is a continent-style threat. Even if you account for him controlling a country... I guess in Hellsing it might be true?

It can depend on the group and be very situational, I think - even on a VTT the DM might allow you to position first .But sometimes there might be logical limits where you'd be - like you oppened the door and the cultists behind it start screaming "Roll Initiative", you might be far away from...

I think he wants the abilty to choose both I am a Dragonborn from a far-away location that no onehere is likely to know about anyway and I and the DM can (and have to) make up stuff. I am a Dragonborn from a community in a location perhaps only a few days or weeks away that people here might...

If it helps, Akashic is a Diamond Throne / Arcana Unearthed/Evolved class.

Sorry, this is only a tangent to the discussion - Diamond Throne is now owned by someone else? Anyone working with it and releasing new stuff? I liked that setting and its class concepts.