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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BB Shockwave" data-source="post: 9091412" data-attributes="member: 6799257">More likely they are afraid of getting cancelled on twitter/facebook if they would release a Deities and Demigods book now, because of late, many bored (and probably somewhat loopy) people with nothing better to do have taken up worshiping the old gods (I say loopy because for reals, have these people READ mythology? Do you really wanna worship fickle, irresponsible entities like Zeus after reading about all the terrible things he has done?) For example, Odin has an actual official church now on Iceland, no kidding. (No word on whether they are nailing people to ash trees yet for him) Would not be surprised if cults to the Olympian gods existed in Greece too now. WotC is trying not to cause a controversy. But I agree with you, I feel something was lost this way. Odd because I think even 1E Pathfinder had the egyptian gods, they just renamed them osirian gods. Dunno if they had the greek gods, though.Were Bladelings ever playeable? Was that in 3E? I must have missed that. 2E had them as a rather universally reclusive xenophobic race  living on Acheron. Plus they were rather too powerful (immunity to non-magical slashing and piercing weapons, half damage from ice and fire) to play as PCs, unless they got nerfed hard for 3E, like Warforged were. Other than the new artwork for monsters like the Molydeus, I see no reason to ever buy MotM when I already own VGtM and MtoF. MotM removed a lot of the lore, tried to turn every humanoid unaligned, and completely removed the Orcs. Ravnica to me feels like the dime store version of Planescape. Probably appealing to those who have not read 2E Planescape books, but to me it felt like a pale imitation. Most of the guilds felt more like organized crime families and not people bound together by an ideology.I think the problem is, WotC as a whole is like, what, maybe 10 people now? Perhaps less. They outsource most of the writing to external writers and companies. I had hoped the D&D movie's success would cause Hasbro to finally invest more money into Wizards, but it has not happened yet.Xanxost did that, he helped people fight the Baatezu in the Blood War or acted as a guide to the Lower Planes for the right payment. Of course, he maybe just did it to get his hands on those juicy, yummy Imps he liked so much. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":P" title="Stick out tongue    :P"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":P" /></blockquote>

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