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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Remathilis" data-source="post: 6198277" data-attributes="member: 7635">Any game where Conan, Merlin, Bilbo and Orpheus go out to fight Count Dracula and his army of uruk-hai is pretty wacky to begin with. Making a version where Spock, Obi-Wan, Flash Gordon and Starbuck fight Daleks doesn't seem so far fetched. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":-)" title="Smile    :-)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":-)" />Still, in both cases you end up asking "Whose fantasy" or "Whose Sci-fi" are we talking about. Wyatt's article seems to want to explain a lot of D&D with either "A wizard did it" or "The Gods willed it" to simplify the storyline. Which is fine, lots of mythical creatures in our world were the work of God(s) and/or magic. (See: Minotaur, Medusa). So I have no problem with certain monsters being explained "magically". That said, it does get pretty boring when everything not found on our Earth was either the will of mad gods or wicked mages. A do find it hilarious that Wyatte proposing limiting the "Cantina" effect after editions of goliaths, wildren, catfolk/tabaxi/rakasta, shadar-kai, illumains, spellscales, dragonborn, aventi, xephs, shardminds, warforged, shifters, genasi, and dozens of other PC races (and monsters). Yeah, its weird when you have 26 humanoid races in a bar in Waterdeep drinking, but QUIT PRINTING THE DAMN RACES if you want to keep PCs fixed in the world of elves and dwarves!I don't even want to bother with the orc/goblin/kobold baby scenario. Its done to death. The simplest way to handle it is give monsters an alignment, allow the DM to deviate as needed, and then let him answer the damn question. Ususally/Always muddies the water unnecessarily.</blockquote>

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