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What's going to be interesting to see is how they define tieflings, and if it favors the classic 2e/3e version or the rather different 4e version.

It's a return to a common cosmology as in 1e and 2e (though there were also sources that followed along these lines in 3e while others did the exact opposite). It remains to be seen if Eberron retains its unique cosmology if it appears in 5e as a campaign setting (I would hope so since it...

I shouldn't engage on this, again, but I will. We get that you don't like certain things, but they've been part of D&D for many, many years. You're free to strip them out, but that's how things have developed with the game for a long time now. There have been noted caveats there of course, such...

I have a amazing amount of respect for him for that.

2e/3.x tieflings in their spectacular diversity need to be presented as the standard, default notion of what tieflings are, and the 4e tiefling should be presented as a specific, true-breeding subrace thereof, much like fey'ri were a specific breed of elven tiefling. The playtest idea of...

I'm completely with you on this one. Eberron was designed from the outset with its own unique planar structure, and it was never intended to fit into the Great Wheel, so out of respect for that setting I think it would be a poor idea to force it to comply to a different cosmology (be it the 4e...

I'm not sure that I'd necessarily call either one an innovation, but rather a focused expansion on something from 3e for the former and an amalgamation of things from prior editions for the latter. The feywild existed in 3e as an optional plane of Faerie, though 4e put it front and center in...

Also, just as an adjunct for atmospheric effect, the last scene in this most recent update (and the continuation of the scene in subsequent updates) is very much aided by the music video for 'Sick Sick Sick' by Queens of the Stone Age. It's pretty self-explanatory given the implied storyhour...

The Marauder's erstwhile pack of adventurers left the confines of the Azure Iris through yet another of the fiend's not-exactly-on-the-blueprints routes of egress, in this instance an obscured back stairwell that very likely wouldn't be in the same place if they tried to locate it a second time...

It's one step in the right direction at least.

So Wolfgang Baur was asked about the issue of Tiamat being 'imprisoned' in the 9 Hells in 'Tyranny of Dragons' when that would seem to be either a retcon or a continuity error.

There was an intent to follow up on Faction War and eventually bring the Factions fully back. There was at one point a 'City of Doors' box set on TSR's release schedule, but ultimately material that was produced for that was folded into the city details section of 'Faction War'. It would be...

They're 'too similar' in the same way that scrambled eggs, pancakes, and orange juice are too similar as parts of a balanced breakfast. Unless the idea of different begins and ends with statblocks and completely overlooks the flavor text, I'm truly just not seeing it. 4e made a lot of noise...

Well that's a bit harsh, given that I got paid for a 4e planar piece in Dungeon #205. I take issue with many of the design decisions, but I'm rather familiar with the material. My earlier answer about the Blood War ending in 4e is technically correct, if overly brief. Ending/hiatus doesn't...

Of course you can have your PCs topple the Lady, roll initiative versus her, anything you want really. It's your game and you're the DM, go right ahead. But on some level I think going that route misses the intended point of the Lady in the setting to an extent. She isn't an NPC so much as myth...

The 4e cosmology had the Blood War end. But the 4e cosmology wasn't Planescape/the Great Wheel so I would think that should have little impact on 5e. It's an awesome concept and I sincerely hope that it's part of 5e.

That's one interpretation of that conversation within Leobtav's head, yes. :) Vorkannis is old. Very old. Exceedingly old. What exactly he is or isn't was a relatively late reveal in the campaign and there are several plot arcs to go before that answer comes up overtly -though I'll be dropping...

And since the Marauder is once again gracing the storyhour with her esteemed presence: "Did you miss me?" *artwork by Cassetterecorder

The Marauder’s lip trembled, and for a moment she briefly considered tapping the well of communal knowledge locked within the Tower Arcane in Gehenna, but paused before turning that mental key. No, she knew the tale well enough, and if the Ebon had chosen her, there was no need to involve any...