Crawford confirms the brilliant strategy of the D&D team. Thanks for posting the highlights Morrus. Sales and fans returning to D&D are proof that they are doing something right.
Bravo!
Bravo!
To me it feels the same as Gandalf showing up in the The Force Awakens to help Luke on his quest to defeat Khan, who failed to defeat his enemy Dumbledore in some other universe.
The choices are being made for monetary reasons, not for the purposes of good story creation.
My argument is that they don't need to bastardize classic lore so frivolously.
Takhisis/Tiamat and Bahamut/Paladine is an old Planescape era piece of lore. Same god worshiped differently on different worlds. Never outright STATED that was true, but it was heavily implied. (Same was true for Tharizdun/Elder Elemental Eye).
Of course, Dragonlance took 30 some turns to make it untrue, but its not something he pulled out of his kiester.
Cool. I'd watch that too.
I think it is. "Nimble" means being responsive, which is impossible if you've planned your line years in advance.
This is why Michael Bay's terrible movies are so successful.
Planescape did its level best to try to keep Tiamat and Takhisis distinct from one another. Without going back and looking specifically, I'm pretty sure that 'On Hallowed Ground' and 'Planes of Law' both make it clear that while mortals have confused them for one another, they're different entities, with different divine domains.
If 5e is retconning that, it won't be the first topic it will have done so with in regards to planar continuity (as it has tried to present an IMO largely cool but sometimes frighteningly awkward middle ground between some mutually exclusive 1e/2e/3e continuity and 4e material).
No, he's never done an awesome geek mashup.
Lets not get hung up on the exact dictionary meaning of a single word again, please, folks. There's too much actual interesting stuff to discuss here. First person to post a dictionary definition of the word loses the internet.
Plus he said at least 9,999 other words, too!
Meh, some of them were repeats.
Damn you WotC, for making me read the same word more than once!
/ragequit