D&D 5E Fizban Is In The Wild -- With the Table of Contents!

Some people have received their copies of Fizban's Treasury of Dragons, and have posted photos (including the table of contents!) online!

 

[Azzy]

All that sounded past tense

The entire FR wiki is written in past tense, BTW.

 

[Sword of Spirit]

Even then, the whole thing about Eberron's lore is that it has intentional gaps. Not only in in-world knowledge. Not even Keith Baker has the answer for this things. Having the progenitors be real, even if nobody in world knows it, sets a standard, and answer one of the biggest questions of the setting (Are gods real?), and every single table that answers that question with "no" will be deviating form canon (a lot of people don't care about that, I know, but a lot do).

I feel similarly unhappy about how they treat the Dark Powers in VRGtR. While they give a few options as to their exact nature, all of those options take for granted that they are some sort of multiple actual beings, which is too much to assume. Ravenloft could be a sentient plane, or it could just have a few completely non-sentient planar features like a law of poetic justice, an entrapping feature that is magnetically drawn to certain types of acts of evil, etc. Or there could be even less than that going on. "You think there is someone(s) out there controlling all this? Too bad for you, you don't even have that. Just a mindless plane that is somehow attractive to evil stuff. Enjoy the utter meaningless of your existence."

 

[Henadic Theologian]

It mentions Tzchazzar is an aspect of Tiamat, but doesn't mention Tzchazzar didn't start out that way or that his pronouns compared to other Tiamat aspects are He/Him, that he has but one head, Red, spends most of his time in human form, is far more civilized and intellectual, and is often heroic and less of a evil dick then Tiamat, is known as a Liberator then a monster, is more Greek flavored then Babylonian. Tiamat also has another aspect in FR that prefers to take human form, the Dark Lady and Bahumut has had forms in FR that are only humanoid, as a member of the Untheric & Babylonian Pantheons, Marduk.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

According to Nerd Immersion Theros gets mentioned in the Draconic Gods section really oddly, suggesting the Theros Gods could be Dragons (of types that don't actually appear on Theros, I suspect this was added to this section to make this book useful for Theros players where otherwise most of it wouldn't be, although Theros kind of has Blue and Red Dragons, for example Eberos would be a Black Dracolich).

This book is really weird and mechanically useful and it has some cool stuff alot of the lore is hot mess like MTOF and VGTM before it as far as I can tell. I will link some preview videos in abit.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

Minifry's livestream of the book. He shows alot of the book.
Nerd Immersions Q&A on the book.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

The way they handle Dragon alignment isn't back up mechanics. A Good Red or Deep Dragon having a Lair near your city is still going to be a complete nightmare, they should have had alternate options for Lair effects on the local environment. Cool idea, but flawed execution as the effect of Dragons Lair environmental effects is at odds with the possiblity that the Dragon might chose to have a typical alignment.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

Saridor isn't exactly dead, he IS the Gem Dragons, they are the shattered pieces of him, so in a sense all the Gem Dragons are Gods, or pieces of a God, so in a weird way it makes sense that they can Dragon Blessed (NPC clerics).

 

[Henadic Theologian]

Worst Deep Dragon art ever.

 

[AtomicPope]

I've been reading through the comments and I have to buy this book. I'm getting lots of ideas for my Eberron campaign.

 

[dave2008]

Would the old or new Tiamat statblock win in combat?

Well the new one would because of the mythic trait, but if you gave the old one the mythic trait it would win.