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Any discussion about feats inevitably leads to people either removing them from the game or discovering Pathfinder 2e.

It should be noted that competition got us the first vampire novella (the Vampyre) which itself was an influence for Stoker. Ironic that rainy summer birthed two of the biggest monster archetypes of modern history.

The way it's written, it basically is a goodstuff feat that is a must take for every caster regardless of your build. FT and ST only are useful in certain builds and concepts. This feat basically said "pick the best first and second level spells in the game. You get two additional spell slots as...

Ah Mystara, the Original "animal headed races" campaign setting..

Feat: Do Whatever +1 ASI You gain one ability of your choosing. Work with the DM to determine a suitable ability. You can take this feat multiple times. There. We combined all the feats into a single one. Look how much space we saved. That's not the point though. All the space saving in the...

I have neither the time nor the resources to dig through decades of Dragon Magazine and col-pladoh posts, but I will say if Gary had a definitive vision of the setting, he has plenty of opportunities to express it and didn't. I think a lot of fans have spent a lot of time retroactively trying to...

Yes, and? Crack open your 1e core books. That's about all Greyhawk was in them. A few names, spells and artifacts. The Folio certainly doesn't give much more than a thumbnail sketch and most of the classic modules were retroactively added to Oerth (ToH, AtG, KotB, etc) to flesh out the world...

That flavor already died in 2000. Attempts to retroactively add limitations to species and classes in Greyhawk have been created by grognards who want to use Oerth as a battleground for a type of play that hasn't been dominant for 20+ years. It was never the intent of Gary nor any of the writers...

Greyhawk survived 3e with gnomish Necromancers and halfling paladins. It will survive this.

First off, that feat does not do the same thing as shadow or fey touched. It removes the limitations on the feat (ASI is a mental score, 2nd level spell if fixed, 1st level is limited to two school choices). FT is already powerful, and this feat is essentially a no brainier feat tax for anyone...

Because setting designers aren't clairvoyant nor can they sit and catalog everything and it's place in the setting. The goal of Eberron was to be a kitchen sink with a twist, not a curated experience like Dark Sun. If a DM wants to limit options they can, but they will get no support from the...

It IS when people already assume Greyhawk is ruined because the sample setting in the DMG isn't going to do "ackshullay..." to remove options in the game simply because Gary didn't think of them in the 70s. Especially since the setting was already used as such in 3e. You are allowed to feel...

Greyhawk never was anything BUT a kitchen sink. And if it exists in D&D, there's a place for it in Eberron. You can make valid arguments that Dragonlance or Dark Sun aren't kitchen sinks, but those are two of the biggest sinks that WotC has next to the Realms. Those are kitchen sink in a 5 star...

Forgotten Realms, Dragonlance, even Eberron are like fancy quilts. They are beautiful and lovingly crafted by talented artisans who are masters of their craft. You may not like the pattern, but you can't deny the artistry. Greyhawk is like a DIY kit with the first fifth of the pattern started...

Last I checked, 3e's default setting was Greyhawk and nothing was off the table. People expecting Greyhawk to adhere only to the Folio already lost that battle 25 years ago.

I think the sample setting chapter is going to be a bit of a misnomer. They are going to use Greyhawk references throughout the book like they used Realms references before. They will give us a short Gazetteer, but they will also give us sample Oerth deities, sample adventures set in or around...

That's King Snurre, antagonist from the Against the Giants series, and about equal on the recognizability scale as the LJN action figure characters. Which is to say, a "who?" to all but the most ardent fans...

You know, it's strange. I was in a Star Wars discussion group and they were talking about how the sequels and new continuity was a ploy by Disney to fire their longtime fans and appeal to some new modern casual fans with certain agendas. Then I went on Twitter and they were talking about how the...

Still, D&D has plenty of supplemental material like books, video games, movies and such for iconic heroes to develop and the best we got was the Heroes of the Lance (which are highly tied to a specific setting and not generic) and Drizzt and his companions (which I don't feel represent an iconic...

Nor should it. Greyhawk confirmed dwarves that could cast magic 24 years ago.