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My interpretation from the article is that Trondo will be avoiding retcons by simply omitting parts of lore he does not care for. That’s the proverbial mullet of the title. So it’s essentially Schrodinger’s retcon: the Second Sundering won’t be mentioned, and the reader can decide if it happened...

There is also the wrinkle that dragon lore has evolved a lot since Sammaster last died, especially in Fizban’s, and now a lich obsessed with unlocking the power of dracoliches has much more to play with. Maybe he wants to weaponize Dragonsight. Maybe he wants to use the Echoes to reach further...

I think there is some merit to this theory, though I wouldn't categorize 5e's combat as eminently tactical. It's very... imprecise, in a way that Draw Steel, or PF2, or 4e, or a few other games have addressed. My impression (and I may be wrong) is that a significant contingent of D&D's player...

I understand this, which is why I said to ignore true resurrection. Nonetheless, you had mentioned in your comment that Sammaster had been dead dead for over 200 years, and I just wanted to correct that point. I only recognize one of those names, but nothing stops anyone from bringing them...

The SCAG reads like a desperate apology to older fans for the 4e timeskip. Every section presumes that you know the topic from 3e days, then just says “it’s back to that!”. It reads horribly either as a campaign setting guide, as a book to mine adventure hooks, or as an introduction to Faerûn...

I’ll be very happy with either. James Wyatt led Theros, Fizban’s, and Bigby’s, all among my favorite 5e books. I use them all the time and they present wonderful DM toolboxes. Jason Trondo led the Book of Many Things , and it was absolutely fantastic and an inspiring read. If I could pick...

According to the FR wiki, Sammaster’s phylactery was destroyed in 1373, 128 years before the new books. But it doesn’t matter, forget about true resurrection, there are countless other ways for the First Speaker to be back. Maybe someone cast wish. Maybe Sammaster had a contingency plan. Maybe...

I’m not assuming anything about the actual metaplot of the setting. There are countless ways WotC can explain any lore development they want, and I don’t see that as very important at all. Metaplot rarely, if ever, comes up in any relevant way at the table. Regardless of any metaplot, tying the...

I’m confused about some comments in the thread. No one has ever said there is a wrong way to play, nor that you cannot change things at will at your table. This is true not only of lore, but also of rules and anything else in the rulebooks—which has always been encouraged by everyone both in...

I'm somewhat surprised that there are people wondering how Sammaster returned. He's an archlich! Coming back is his deal! Look, I'm sympathetic to all the lore folk out there. I've spent some energy this week arguing on the Purple Dragon Knights thread that they should have respected that more...

I also haven’t finished the game mostly due to the companions. I don’t hate them, I just find them all very bland. They’re just sort of there. So I very much sympathize with your feelings. Nonetheless, I fully recognize that I am in the minority and that these characters are very popular...

I don’t care at all for Astarion (or Karlach, or Lae’zel), but I’d have to be blind and deaf to online chatter to think BG3 characters aren’t widely popular. Within that subcategory in which almost everyone is popular (except maybe Wyll?), Astarion is certainly in the top 3 in terms of...

I take your suggestion to heart, because Bahamut is very much a good deity: he's kind, patient, wise, and he hangs out most of the time in the form of an elderly man with cute birds. He's not really a good fit for the "stern champion of order" player fantasy. Maybe Helm or Hoar? They're both...

I'm confused about these statements that they haven't touched Purple Dragon Knights in 125 years. They are in the SCAG, set roughly 12-15 years before this upcoming book, where they were spotlit via this exact subclass (an earlier iteration). They get roughly one page of write-up there. Cormyr...

Here's what I am interpreting from your post. You simultaneously think that: WotC does not care about complaints about lore and does not heed them; WotC still reworked the class due to feedback; Somehow the people who submitted complaints about lore are to blame. Do you see the contradiction...

This is some serious underestimating of WotC’s staff’s faculties. The UA process has many flaws, and I am not a fan of it. Responders aren’t really representative of the wide player base, it wastes energy on minutiae, it sometimes leads to baffling design choices, and the conversation around it...

I wasn’t married to old lore, but I agree the new idea seems juvenile. The thought process clearly was “we have an organization that mentions a purple dragon. We also have purple dragons somewhere, somehow. Why aren’t they linked?” I don’t think anyone cared that they weren’t linked. I’m...

People who know the lore explained it in this thread. I did not know it and have no personal attachment to it. Still, it’s perfectly reasonable to my eyes that FR fans would like the class in the FR-book to build off FR lore. I don’t understand why others are so against this elementary...