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There was a thread about this setting being brought back for 5e on EN World. Anything new since then?

Heritage or Linage also works for me.

I think Level Up took some inspiration from the Rock Lords when it came up with this particular heritage: Rockborn | Level Up As both the Rock Lords and the Rockborn are known for Rock and Roll. ;)

Not sure if using a Rorschach test is the right analogy for figuring out what D&D is nowadays. It has had 50 years to give most people an idea as to what it is and how it works.

I don't think D&D counts as Steampunk if you were to compare it to an actual RPG setting that fits the genre, like Iron Kingdoms from Privateer Press.

The GoBots came out a year (1983) before the Transformers (1984). One year does not make much of a difference because the latter eclipsed the former in terms of sales and popularity.

I find it a bit amusing that 2024 D&D wants the player to take a trip down memory lane by first having them pick class, then background and finally species. There is nothing wrong with this approach as I can assume that some players probably went this route long before 2024 D&D debuted. However...

There was also the Alternity RPG that debuted in 1997 and was discontinued in 2000 after the acquisition of TSR by WoTC. Like Star Frontiers, it was also incorporated into d20 Future.

3e's Bastion Press had a race of dogfolk called the Dover. They resembled anthropomorphic German Shepherd Dogs. Has anyone watched the Road Rovers cartoon? curious The Madrai now remind me of them. :p

Most likely the latter since some of these homebrewers/DMs are likely to put their work on the DMsGuild website. These homebrewers/DMs are doing Wizards' work for them by filling in those unexplored regions of a given Material world.

That is a surprisingly good analogy for character generation in RPGs such as PF2 and Level Up. :) Level Up's Heritage is sort of like PF2's Ancestry in that it gives you all of the traits your character is going to be born with (size, speed, ag, senses, and a unique signature trait). It also...

It's cool. I do like to focus on creating characters. World building doesn't really excite me as much as coming up with a character concept and then fleshing it out via 5e or Level Up.

How about a Fiend Folio for 5e?

Does Dungeon and Dragons: The Book of Dragons count as TTRPG lore and therefore as a TTRPG purchase?

A 5e take on Toril's sister planet of Abeir?

I like the degree of character customization that you can get with Heritage, Culture, Background and Destiny while keeping things short and simple.

Another Level Up reference. In that 5e adjacent RPG, Culture alongside Heritage, Background and Destiny play a part in developing your character's origin. It represents all of the learned traits your character gained while growing up in a particular society. For instance, if you were playing a...

So, which cultural traits of the elves and which cultural traits of the humans do you see either culture having in terms of game mechanics? And how did such a mixed culture come about in the first place? I think you mean they should be sociological in nature. Yes, Geography and biology do play...

Maybe we're looking at a pic of Athas during its' Green Age? ;) Back when it resembled every other world on the Material Plane. Before the dark times...

True. It might also depend on where their deities might have chosen to place them when the setting was created. Did their deities pick out some prime real estate for their chosen species that happened to be some distance from the neighbors? Or did the deities decide to let their chosen species...