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I'd pay good money for a book about the Vodoni empire using lycanthropic sleeper agents to destabilize Krynn

Usually when people talk about "medievalism" it's a historical discipline; are we not discussing history here?

The "classic" D&D setting derives from American pulp fantasy (we credit Tolkien for being the originator of D&D's tropes, but that's not the case whatsoever), which derives from American history of the "wild west" and manifest destiny. The core of D&D is people designating an extant culture as...

Gnomes were in the Silmarillion; they were just called the Noldor

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Did WotC hire a buncha Brazilians or something because for the life of me I can't understand why they're pushing the cast of the mediocre 80s TV show so hard, and barely anyone who's not Brazilian has fond memories of it. That being said, Venger being prominent on the cover reminds me of my...

I'm sure others have said it, but the spellplague should be used to shake up the politics and culture of Kara-Tur- and maybe some of the other settings like Maztica or Al Qadim. The only things that should be the same are the geography and the history up until the 14th century DR. Having never...

If I were WotC I'd park a big truck of money outside Neil Newbon's house and make him host an in-house actual play show since he's both the breakout star of the game and already familiar with D&D rules. He could be a Matt Mercer who's more under their thumb.

While they're working on BG4 they need to take the BG3 characters and slap them on book titles like they do with Tasha and Bigby's. "Karlach's guide to the hells", "Lae'zel's astral adventures" etc etc.

Then you're basically two steps away from the "noble savage" trope. The colonizers were almost all villains, but the colonized? They're just people. Good, bad, ambivalent, apathetic. The colonizers are defined by their actions, the act of colonizing, so we can say that they are villains. The...

I wouldn't call destroying the Xaryxian empire genocide; it's self defense. They are destroying entire naughty word suns. Some sun's gotta blow up and it ain't gonna be that of the player characters.

Dungeons and Dragons is a game. Nothing in it is necessary; it's a frivolity. If you care about what's necessary get off the internet and do something more meaningful than whine about fantasy classes.

That's entirely fair, but having run multiple games for first-time players and people who are new to D&D, I'd say I've had someone wanting to play a goblin at my table like 75% of the time and I've never seen someone want to make an aasimar. Symmetry is nice, but I'm very much of the "give the...

I haven't run a lot of AD&D games and when I have the players have wanted to be very conservative with the classes, characters and overall fantasies they want to enact. I wouldn't ban anyone from using psionics at my table in a 1e game, but I've never had a player want to use them, so the few...

I'm glad aasimar are in (makes sense if tieflings are), but I'm honestly surprised that goblins aren't in the PHB- though maybe they're afraid of being accused of ripping off PF2e.

The game had been doing gangbusters for years as an early access title, it didn't really "come out" in 2023. Hell WotC greenlit an entire MTG set about the game years before it came out; they could've used some of the art from those cards.

WotC owns Baldurs Gate 3's IP and people are literally going insane over Astarion and Shadowheart. They have all these talented writers like Larian or Bob Salvatore creating characters for them and they're like... "No, Yoldanda B. Elf, that's what gets peoples' blood pumping"

Star Wars, Marvel and DC have all been clowned on for the better part of a decade for their behavior and they're all at relative low points in their franchise history. Actually of all those brands you mentioned the only one that I think is on the upswing is TMNT, in part because Mutant Mayhem...

I dunno, literally rummaging around in the toybox for 30 year old characters doesn't strike me as the actions of a brand in its ascendancy.

Ever since I read in an article that like the name dungeons& dragons has the same brand recognition as Star wars but no one can name a dungeons& dragons character, outside of maybe Drizzt, made me think that wizards really dropped the ball with the IP. Kind of find it interesting that they are...