D&D 5E (2024) WotC Should Make 5.5E Specific Setting

[Maxperson]

Abiogenesis is the simplest explanation. That’s why people believed it until evidence of something more complicated was discovered.

That's not the simplest explanation. We play this game in modern times through a modern lens.

So everyone can have a different interpretation, and all be right.

Except me apparently. I'm being told that in 5.5e the only way for half races to happen is by magical energy. I'm the one here saying that 5.5e says both(and it does). It writes biological transfer and magical transformation.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

I'm being told that in 5.5e the only way for half races to happen is by magical energy

Sure, that’s one person’s explanation. It’s not wrong, but it is wrong to insist it’s the only explanation.

That's not the simplest explanation. We play this game in modern times through a modern lens

That’s also not a rule.

The original Planescape setting leaned heavily into a 19th century understanding of science, with its either and phlogesteron, and other stuff that had been invalidated in the early 20th century.

But the typical “modern lens” interpretation of genetics is just as wrong as abiogenesis.

 

[Minigiant]

In one region? It's not that it's too much to track, it's just kind of nonsensical unless that region is old world Europe.

That's just defaultinh to Eurocentric bias using Europe as a cheat.

If Normies can understand Westeros, D&D players can get get Tiefburg bordering the Dragonlands and North Goliathia.

 

[Scribe]

D&D players can get get Tiefburg bordering the Dragonlands and North Goliathia.

Sure, again, depending on region size and what the region dynamics look like. I still think its a whole lot to pack into 1 region.