D&D General Fallback: Dealing With Dragons Review from dungeonsanddragonsfan.com [[spoilers]]

[LuisCarlos17f]

The review says the novel is "cozy fantasy". I feel surprised. When I read "D&D as cozy fantasy" I imagine something like Witchlight, or "Obojima: tales of the tall grass".

Don't you miss novels from other settings? I can understand Forgotten Realms is the golden blue-eyed boy by WotC but I miss Greyhawk because I discovered it before FR.

Will we see a second Spelljammer novel?

Do you think Birthight could be right for a novel style "Game of Thrones"?

 

[Henadic Theologian]

Well, technically Tiamat and Bahamut are not gods either, they are primordial dragons according to FToD. The the difference is primarily one of origin.

At this point I'm not sure how they even define what a God even is anymore. Are their different species of God?

 

[dave2008]

At this point I'm not sure how they even define what a God even is anymore. Are their different species of God?

I actually think is more clear now compared to most other versions of D&D. Though it is possible definitions were clear in other editions too and I just don't remember as much because I do like the framework presented with FToD and have taken it to heart. What was the definition of a god in a previous edition of D&D?

(From FToD):
"Since they share the same fundamental connection to the Material Plane as their dragon offspring, Bahamut and Tiamat are ontologically distinct from the gods that hail from the Outer Planes. But for practical purposes, they are divine—worshiped by mortal creatures, able to grant cleric spells to their followers, and both ageless and immortal."

So it is fairly clear now that a God is: worshiped by mortal creatures, grants cleric spells, ageless, immortal, and hails form the Outer Planes.*