What is one bit of official D&D lore that you tend to ignore?

[@MitchellTF]

If I recall, dragon colors don't mix, instead breeding true, and all dragons can have their alignment and basic personality told by the color of their scales. Or, to put it another way? Dragons are Color Coded For Your Convenience.

[@kotzpenner]

This comment wasted about 4 hours of my evening, thanks Tv Tropes

[@Ballodsofthebold]

In older lore, like 3-4e, they did interbreed. There were purple dragons, orange dragons, all that stuff. But 5e seemed to drop like, half of the old lore

[@benaplin9861]

​@@Ballodsoftheboldyeah, in fact, green dragons were supposed to be descended from blue and yellow dragons. Blue dragons were lightning spitting coastal dragons, and yellow dragons also loved salt water, and exhaled flensing blasts of salt. The green dragon's breath was (retroactively said to be) chlorine gas, because if you channel electricity through salt water, one of the products is chlorine gas.

[@nicohatesyoutubehandlers]

@@kotzpenner tv tropes will ruin your life

[@Ballodsofthebold]

@benaplin9861 Yeah I learned that stuff from dungeon dad. Real helpful for designing encounters.

[@tedcoop4392]

Brian my dude, the word "electrum" does, in fact, include the letter R, and it's not silent.

[@brainfat1]

Glad to see I wasn't the only one about to lose my mind everytime he said "electum".

[@shhinysilver1720]

For me, it is “artificers don’t actually cast magic, they just somehow have technology that can accomplish every spell effect” My current artificer is a tabaxi who grew up in the feywild, and uses fey magic to enhance his inventions.

[@breadstix-]

I have a similar thing going on. What I do is usually just take something similar to sorcerers in the sense that they have access to magic for some reason or another, but like wizards can be terrible at it, so they invent not to have magic but to enhance it to the best of their abilities. Kinda like a fighter who casts spells through magic items and such, just on a higher level.

[@ninalindqvist4032]

I like this flavour. Something like sorcerers, but who enhance their skills through experimentation (int) rather than force of will, and since their power comes from a different source than traditionally academic magic, they're not quite wizards

[@richardstamm2144]

Ooh nice. Fellow tabaxi artificer, but I took that artificer lore as 100% fact. Mine had the desire and intelligence to be a wizard, but for some unknown reason was completely unable to reach the Weave to cast even the most primitive of spells. He took that academic knowledge of magic and built machines that could cast magic instead. And I do consider mechanizing low level magic effects using the natural phenomena of a magic-infused world to just be technology

[@skellysniperyt3210]

I want to follow up on fantasy racism, because I completely agree with whoever the OP of that was. *Fantasy* racism makes interesting stories, and creates enemies and objectives that we, who know better than to be racist, can work against. But also, for a PC who wishes to engage with it, it can be a terribly interesting point for roleplay. Take a race that might be considered monsters- such as goblins, orcs, or drow, races that once were bestiary entries rather than playable races. If they remain as such in your world, and your PC plays one, then how they interact and integrate with the culture of your world can be extremely interesting. A drow finding a complicated way to disguise themself as a normal elf, or a goblin struggling to be accepted despite people who can't or won't look past their shape to who they really are. And how those people gain trust in the first place, and exploring their own identities. Racism is Bad. But exploring what it is and means in a fantasy setting like this isn't, if it helps us understand better and tell more interesting stories.

[@nabra97]

Probably some people in the community just don't want the topic of racism in D&D at all, but what I mostly have seen people having issues with is that this racism is often justified in-universe, at least for some of the "monstrous" humanoids (I mean, fiends be evil and aberrations be aberrations, they aren't really races). I kinda feel like it boils down to people (both in-universe and irl) not separating culture itself and what the relative majority of its carriers are up to, but I'm not really equipped to discuss it.

[@DanyelAzamor-lh7yg]

Some people tho just want to live an adventure and not suffer racism as a character, IRL is already enough lol TLDR; the GM must warn the player of the rascism and all and if they would like to play with it or not

[@Mr_GoR_]

No one in FR is dedicated to 1 deity exclusively. Churches,temples, and shrines are often dedicated to a single deity, but individuals prey to whichever God's favor would best influence a given choice or action. While they may revere certain deities above others, they all acknowledge all God's and pray to many God's, whichever God best suits the situation.

[@ninalindqvist4032]

People are still supposed to favor one, due to the whole afterlife rules. Merchants praying to Waukeen or sages praying to Oghma is deemed in one of the lore books as "praying for selfish reasons" though it's still done and still helps the gods since they become more powerful through belief and prayer. Plus there's also unconscious worship, such as murdering someone still counts as worshipping Bhaal even if not thinking about him. But yeah, lore is fun but too complex to actually use in a game, except for random bits of flavor

[@Mr_GoR_]

@@ninalindqvist4032 apologies if my previous statement was unclear. I said they don't exclusively devote to a single deity, meaning one deity to the EXCLUSION of all others. Yes, they may still have a primary deity, but will entreat with others depending on the situation.

[@jejamu2282]

The lore I don’t pay attention to is all of it. Have read none of the lore either 5th or previous editions, and I have no intention or interest in any of it.

[@RevokFarthis]

Ok... what? The prompt is "what is lore you ignore" and the *very first one* on the list isn't ignoring it, it's actively playing in to it. I know 5e players can't read, but damn; ignoring the lore is the one thing ya'll supposed to be good at!

[@nabra97]

I haven't seen what the original post looked like, but as far as I understand, one person mentioned that they don't care about electrum, and another one described how they made use of it in their game.

[@RevokFarthis]

@@nabra97 I am very much including MrRipper in "I know 5e players can't read" because by including that post they went against their own prompt.

[@NotEpimethean]

One tiny insignificant piece of lore that I *hate* is that Elves and Orcs are incompatible genetically. I get that they're kinda opposites, but I just think that a character with the natural brawn of an Orc and the beauty and grace of an Elf would be really cool. So I ignore that bit of lore for my games.

[@dragonriderabens9761]

Dragonborn in lore: *don’t have tails* Half the DND community: “I’ll ignore that”

[@Flufux]

Even Baldur's Gate 3 gave them tails.

[@Shimatzu95]

More like 5% of those that care about the lore/reason they dont have tails keep it like that and the rest say: cosmetics are free.

[@lorekeeper685]

Half dragons have tails

[@Shimatzu95]

@@lorekeeper685 sadly not a playale race

[@lorekeeper685]

@@Shimatzu95 depends really

[@Lord_Inquisitor_William7391]

I always hated that dragonborn only live to be like 80 the same as humans dispite dragons living for thousands of years, you would think that the dragonborn should live longer because of their draconic blood. They should live at least to live as long as elves.

[@Booksforthewin]

Here’s the lore explication: Dragonborn are from Abir, while the forgotten realms are Toril. They merged during the 2nd Sundering, and the Dragonborn are a remnant of it. In other words, Dragonborn are AU dragons.

[@AllTheOthers]

Dragonborn aren't exactly set in stone beings anyways, so do whatever you want with them. I personally would've made dragonborn much much different had I the chance to do so in any meaningful way. As it stands right now I have a homebrewed replacement species for Dragonborn, which are called "Drakenkin." They basically just resemble small dragons with more of a bipedal structure, less emphasized tail, and a primary non-winged variant, as well as a variant with wings that isn't very good at actually flying. It has worked well for my players.

[@nabra97]

I guess they aren't really dragon descendants by lore. But, hay, ignoring official lore is what we have gathered here for, and lifespan doesn't even matter in 5e (besides some very specific situations)

[@kylebaryonyx9478]

In the same vein, why the fuck do tortles only live 75 years? It seems like the writers forgot to add a zero. In my worlds, tortles live as long as elves.

[@robinthrush9672]

@@AllTheOthers Sounds a lot like the draconians from DragonLance's setting.

[@ajh22895]

Druids don't like metal. If they are too lazy to properly codify that as a rule, I'm not going to GM that.

[@brickpuncher1429]

There's this one race in Warhammer 40k that "knows the flaws of flesh" and made themselves more machine than man. Warforged are basically magic mechs. Now, using what you said and what I said, imagine a warforged druid that wants to be made of flesh, not metal or something like that

[@darcraven01]

see heres the thing about that... in the rules (at least on the website i looked it up on) it says "druids will not wear armor or use shields made of metal"... the key words i see there is " *will not* ". that tells me that a druid *can* but just chooses not to. this makes sense as a lore thing for druids to be unwilling to wear things unnatural even though nothing physically/magically prevents them from doing so. and if a player says their druid doesnt abide by that unwillingness then thats their choice. i see no difference between this and "drow are evil".. if you dont want to play an evil drow, then dont. if you dont want to play a druid who avoids metal armor, then dont.

[@marchoshes6912]

I've come to understand they actually can use metal, but they don't wear armor is because it's too advanced. That's why they limit themselves to only use swords that's its more like there more traditional wearin Fur and leather

[@koryh9802]

my Druid owns a tank fuck the no metal rule My star druid is slinging guiding bolts, starry archer arrows and ballista and completely fuck an encounter (my dm has beaten my poor druid into the ground for so many sessions i just see this as me balancing the scales)

[@marchoshes6912]

@@koryh9802 that's dope as fuck I mean that Also I think the DND books are more of fucking guidelines than anything else than fucking rules.

[@jeanpierrepolnareff2356]

Chromatic dragons Are inherently evil due to their ties to tiamot, wile Metallic dragons are inherently good because of bahamut So the two naturally disagree with each other. Finding A married chromatic dragon and metallica dragon Would be like finding a drow married to a high elf

[@TheDragonRuler-]

It wouldn't make much sense but I this instance I'd probably make their child a Gem Dragon and try to find the medium of their alignments or colors among the Gems to make it easier

[@MorinehtarTheBlue]

​@@TheDragonRuler-Interesting idea but it also highlights the flaw in gem dragons colour scheme. Most gem dragons with the exception of the amethyst have a colour that straight up matches a chromatic one. Metallics have other colour issues but don't correspond to standard colours very much.

[@wolfskinchanger]

@@MorinehtarTheBlue On the other hand, many Metallic and Chromatic dragons do correspond through their respective breath weapons. Green's poison makes it the odd one out in that regard, but one could cheat by matching Green with Brass (one of two fire-breathers on the Metallic side), as brass sometimes turns green when it oxidizes.

[@TheDragonRuler-]

@@MorinehtarTheBlue yeah that's what sucks, especially with the Gem dragons odd breath weapon damage types. But if one wanted to create a lineage of Chromatic and Metallic dragons it'd make sense

[@MorinehtarTheBlue]

@@wolfskinchanger Brass have a secondary breath weapon that is a knockout gas. A kinder, gentler version of the chlorine gas a green dragon spews. However metallic and chromatics also have a power hierarchy that ignores the differing breath weapon types regardless. It's very complicated but it's all mostly on account of chromatics being an earlier thing with gold dragons being the exception. As more were created we got a lot of half-baked themes that didn't always go to plan. And a fair amount of metallics won't mate with chromatics chiefly because they are far more likely to try to kill each other. Frankly I am much more comfortable with keeping the lore then mucking about with it. Mostly on account of it needing a complete overhaul. Which is a massive undertaking. The thing more likely to happen is for the whole thing to get dumbed down and reduce the richness and depth.

[@darcraven01]

Druids not using metal is like the Amish not using technology. they *can* but they wont.. if you wanna ignore that, go for it.

[@dragonriderabens9761]

I like the idea that they don’t use it because rival moon druids will turn into an owl and cast heat metal

[@AllTheOthers]

The way I see it, if a druid uses metal it should do psychic damage to the druid.

[@darcraven01]

@@AllTheOthers nah... at most i could see it being more difficult/impossible to shapechange while wearing inorganic material which would mean abilities that use wildshape charges would be unavailable (or shapechanging in metal makes the metal fall off you so when you shapechange back you dont have the armor.. but this would make being polymorphed while wearing metal armor also impossible or disrobing.. so..not to mention any metals you might be holding.. it'd be a logistical nightmare) theres no power to fuel a psychic damage so that wouldnt make sense

[@H1Guard]

The Amish do use tech, just not electricity. They convert blenders and other appliances to pneumatic power and use water to drive compressors.

[@Demonwalkerproductio]

@@darcraven01 Downside to this... Metal is a rock. Rocks are natural. Just because you hit it with a hammer for a while doesn't make it any less of a rock. There is no good reason for the rule outside of personal lore.

[@PercyShadowAssassin]

About the elf school thing. They dont mature slower, nor do they age slower, in the players handbook it states that the reason an elf is concidered young afult first at 120 is because of their experiences relative to the elven society. Meaning an 18 year old elf, is just the same as an 18 year old human. As they physically age the same, however they live longer and dont start to get actually old and frail before they start to reach the max of their 750-1000 year span. Therefore an elf of age 18 is still a legal mature adult with an adult body, and capable of consent. However to elves they would concider them a child as they are not near to reaching the 120 span of elven standard.

[@jemm113]

I’d simply have it that elves, when interacting in the institutions of societies of shorter-lived races, would tend to use their expanded time on greater academic or craft pursuits. The Tasha’s rules about swapping item proficiencies helps a lot with this as now all my elves, barring bladesingers to a lesser extent, are accomplished crafters or musicians. Plus elves tend to take things slow. What would take a human 4-8 years might take an elf 10-40 years, or longer! This is because they may take breaks to extensively travel, or pick up extra studies (like taking back-to-back bachelor degrees, THEN back-to-back graduate degrees!), or go on smaller adventures when they reach the 80-100 years period. Plus they may make frequent, but ephemeral and temporary, trips home that take out months if not years of their time from traveling. Plus they may not even leave the elven forests until past 20 or 30 and receive a slower and more culturally-focused education while at home before even attempting to enter academies or universities.

[@DellikkilleD]

meh, thats idiot 5e neutering. elves dont mature physically until around 120. if hasbro can retcon it out of lore, I can recon in back in.

[@PercyShadowAssassin]

@@DellikkilleD uhm its i nthe book. 5e. different editions means different rules, and different ways creatures function. gods that existed i nprevious editions dont exist, new gods exist. its not the same reality my friend. the book says its a more cultural thing.

[@DellikkilleD]

@@PercyShadowAssassin yeah, the shittiest edition of DnD doesnt have the power to overwrite 40 years of collective lore. you can chose to follow that idiotic flavor 'rule' but no one ive ever met does, or will lmao

[@PercyShadowAssassin]

@@DellikkilleD i find it funny that you shit on other people and their choice of running games, in a game about running it how you yourself would like. ironic. besides if im joining in 5e, and i learn 5e lore, i dont need the legacy lore, that shit is irrelevant, and adds more writing for me, and i already write worlds 24/7, i dotn have time to do more worldbuilding. i find it funny how you run straight to insults and calling shit dumb. whats dumb is looking at a game about havign fun in the way your group would like, in an egocentric way (this does not mean egoistic), as opposed to sociocentric. But hey, i guess thats just how the world teaches us to be hm? onyl focused on ones own opinion, and any discussion on it is stupid and makes the other person stupid.

[@lorenzocassaro3054]

You made your own homebrew setting because you're creative I made my own homebrew setting because I couldn't be bothered to read about the Forgotten Realms We are *not* the same 😎

[@MarkBonneaux]

My current campaign and upcoming world (tldr, Cowboys and Cthulhu) summed up right there

[@breadstix-]

I am both

[@echo-7561]

Real

[@ninalindqvist4032]

The more I read about Forgotten Realms, the less I'd like to use it as a setting. Mostly because of the events taking around 4e, making everything way more convoluted and ridiculous than before, plus instead of retconning they added more lore to undo nearly all changes. Ugh

[@tysondennis1016]

I made my own homebrew to give my cousin’s comic a tie-in

[@bmyers7078]

I played in a game a few years back set in a post apocalyptic Forgotten Realms where the Underdark had been flooded and all Drow lived on the surface. The purists were confused. However, our heal-bot cleric loved playing a follower of Elistraee & dancing in the buff under a full moon.

[@scorch2155]

Couldnt agree more with the last guy regsrding alinment and its always been how i view it. But then ive never been super ridged about alinment and view it as a spectrum that can slowly sjoft or greatly. For example a Lawful Good Paladin can infact do somethings/allow something unlawful to happen. Lile the PCs learn a beloved person in town is actually evil and going to do great harm to people but have no way to prove? LG paladin turns a blind eye to the rouge taking care of it quietly wont make them jo longer LG However the same paladin masacuring that same town simplly because they are unknowingly associated with said evil NPC? Yeaj you are not longer LG because that is such a massive departure from that alinment. Alinement to me just means how your character behaves 9 times out of 10 as a guidline rather then strict rules.

[@zipperfingers749]

That Goblins are just a normal part of everyday life and can be seen working for anyone who pays well enough (from bar staff to sailors and even guards for BBEGs) or just gives them shiny things or funny rocks.

[@user-unos111]

Sounds like fantasy mexicans

[@100dfrost]

In my campaign I accept all of Toril's lore as what is believed largely by the general public. In my version of "reality" I've actually changed so much it would take a very long time to tell. The players, naturally, are in touch with induvials that know the "true" lore, and in many cases were involved in this "true" history. I made it this way to continue my campaign as it was before I moved it to the Sword Coast.

[@-Commit-arson-]

Gnolls 30 years is too short (we sometimes use gnolls as a player race) They live as long as humans Also dragonborns have a tail and you can’t tell me otherwise

[@beancandev7818]

Even Baldurs Gate 3 ignored the tail bit

[@penguinmaster7]

3 pieces of lore always get ignored in one of my groups in favor of making things more fun, making players think more, or just being an overall better design choice. they are as follows: 1: Legacy Kobold sunlight sensitivity has always been ignored if the kobold in question has essentially lived in the sunlight for more than half of their current age, with the trade-off being that they lose darkvision. You seriously mean to tell me that my 30-something year old kobold, who has lived in a desert town for at least 25 of those years, exposed to direct sunlight on a daily basis, and spent 10 years as a slave working on a farm, is STILL sensitive to sunlight? 2: chromatic and metallic dragons being locked to good and evil. Sure, chromatic dragons are tied to Tiamat, but you're going to go out of your way to say that never,in the history of dragons did a chromatic dragon have an experience that turned them good? that being born with a certain scale color is going to dictate their life choices for their entire lives? Nah. An example: Sakaar the black dragon is good because his life was spared when he was literally unable to fight back. the knight in question had no reason to do such a thing, but the act of kindness changed Sakaar's views on his own life, and now he's essentially a protector of the region. 3: every dragonborn has a tail.

[@demonic_myst4503]

Dragons dont have morality bathumat and tiamat are gods its like angels and demons not humans they dont be ome good because their created by evil aligned energy but personaly i get rid of the alignment system so i just use any apearence and choos a stat template

[@AlexandraSaysHi]

I never understood the druids not being able to wear metal rule. Metal is a natural element that comes from the earth. Unless there's something I'm missing since I am terribly new to anything D&D.

[@Nyrufa]

Druids reject processed materials and other trappings of civilization, instead preferring to fashion things out of base materials that are easy to work with, such as wood and stone. Often, these materials are sacred to the druidic faith, and are blessed with magical enhancements that allow them to function as well as metal equipment.

[@AlexandraSaysHi]

@@Nyrufa Oh! Okay, now that does make sense, but it sounds like they opt against using metal, not that they absolutely can't use any, and people do say it like its a hard set rule, so that was a little confusing. Thank you for clearing that up!

[@Nyrufa]

@@AlexandraSaysHi Of course they have the physical capacity to use metal (not sure why people would think they can't?) but it violates their druidic oath to do so.

[@grandempress1947]

@@Nyrufa I tend to just ignore it altogether at my tables tbh. I don't entirely see how or why strapping on some chain mail would suddenly make them less in-tune with nature or violate whatever oath they may or may not have. Yet, them grabbing the rogue's glock and pumping some orcs full of lead is 100% acceptable.

[@deusexcapsicum1368]

And yet they still use leather, woodcarving and process gems for their rituals. Besides the "no-metal" rule only applying to armors and shields and not weapons, the scimitar and scythe being somehow part of their base equipment. Yeah, no. The no metal rule makes 0 sense.

[@Daggoth65]

I just ignore something little and insignificant called 4e

[@NathanSmithSkits]

Lizardfolk can’t feel emotions and kobolds are evil

[@1211MK98]

Shadar-Kai being grumpy elves. I loved the 4e version, where they were people trapped in the shadowfell and the only way to stay somewhat sane and alive was to indulge in pain and pleasure. Much more interesting then Raven Queen was elf god that got banished and her followers followed. We already have the Drow that are the mean elves with their edgy godess. (And don't misunderstand me I love the evil drow and Lolth very very much)

[@Shadow4wolfz]

I can say for certain, "Druids often don't use metal" is something I often ignore. Probably my favorite druid I've played very much used metal, being a star druid and blacksmith, her goal was to specifically search for rare metals that come from outside the realm she walked to forge a powerful weapon. She also liked hammers in general, and typically would wield one in battle.

[@jemm113]

I always envision Star Druids as Astrologians from FFXIV, and as such use A LOT of precious metals in their accessories, star globes, tarot deck holsters, and clothing! Perhaps one restriction I’d put is that they only use metals that were purified and crafted using magic so as to avoid processes that damage the environment they protect. Big exceptions would be cultures that hold metalwork to be a divine craft, like dwarves, and would simply compensate some other way for the resulting pollution. Though perhaps as druids (or with the assistance of clerics) they can achieve this via purifying rituals (like capturing all the pollution into water systems that are more easily purified).

[@qwormuli77]

And what's the deal with the global "metals are unnatural" consideration? Metals are literally most of what exists by variety. Many metals can even be found in a naturally metallic form (meteorites being a case appropriate example). There's nothing unnatural about metal and it's not more advanced societally than more refined leather products or the like, which they have no issues using. Would make much more sense if they eschewed from the more arcane or otherwise divorced from the natural, physical world.

[@jonathanwells223]

So to you Druid isn’t a religion

[@abadidea5984]

I like to focus on the interaction between Clerics and their gods, and Warlocks with their patrons, but a friend of mine had informed me that I'm doing them backwards. In my interpretation, gods are more distant and cryptic; they are less likely to make personal visitations or communion and more likely to leave vague hints and signs that a Cleric must interpret as their gods' will. By contrast, Patrons should be much more personally involved; they should be actively tempting their warlock contractor into their personal vices or desires in exchange for more power, the figurative 'devil on the shoulder' so to speak. If this is actually the opposite of how it's supposed to be, then consider this my defiance of lore.

[@MorinehtarTheBlue]

This is one of the reasons that I wish their hadn't been a big push for creators to make gods as a resource back in the day. I would much prefer players creating their PCs deity as we do with most Warlocks. That being said I do believe that some flavour is needed to separate the definition of patrons from gods and thus Warlocks from Clerics.

[@robinthrush9672]

No, that's pretty much every story I've heard of the two except for my current campaign, but that has an outlier in that the cleric's goddess is ancient and forgotten needs the cleric to overthrow the false god she was worshiping while the warlock had an emotionless death god for her patron. He did talk to her decently frequently, however.

[@MalzraAirwynn]

Yeah, warlock patrons, while powerful, tend to be a good deal lower on the totem pole than gods. So it would make sense for them to be more personable. The only thing I could say though is that not all warlock patrons are 'evil.' The classic Fiend option, sure yeah you'll be hard pressed to find a 'good' fiend. But fey could conceivably be good evil or neutral, celestial patrons as good, a great old one might not be evil just unknowable and might be more distant and cryptic than even a cleric's god if they even know or acknowledge the warlock at all. So they don't always need to be the devil on the shoulder.

[@thod-thod]

At 2:40 I ran a campaign where the world did get destroyed and the players were dealing with the aftermath

[@dr4c0r3x5]

3/5 of metallic dragons are a Cooper ore; Brass, Bronze and Cooper. In my settings are more regional variates and replaced with Steel and Mercury.

[@jacobburns7742]

@8:25 See, this poster is mistaken in their logic. It makes perfect sense that a 100 year old elf is comparable to a 16 year old human. The reason humans start with +1 to every attribute or a feat (Variant) Is to reflect their smaller life spans. Humans are ambitious! Cut corners, find the easiest answers to even the most simple tasks. Because much like in real life, our time is finite and we do not have much of it to begin with, outside dangers non withstanding. Elves, Dwarves, etc on the other hand have such longer lives that they can afford to take their time. They are in no rush. A level 1 100 year old elf fighter, took their time to master weaponry. (Remember, in context, everything a character gets at level one in most classes is front loaded, making them ridiculously and admirably competent.) But the human? Is using instinct, gumption and raw grit on top of what little lessons they can get their hands on (If not self trained) in their first 16 to 20 years to be as competent as a level 1 fighter. ( Which again, most classes are frontloaded enough, it is sensible it took years of practice and learning to hone, in whatever flavor the player decided they did learn.) Now, I am not dictating the flavor of peoples characters, the Elf can be 16 and the human can be a grizzled grunt veteran in the twilight of his years. I am just detailing the logistics on why a 100 year old lvl 1 elf fighter is logically on the same level as a 16 year old human lvl 1 fighter based on lore. Simply put, Elves take their time, particularly into multiple pursuits that interest them. Humans are like Rock Lee, taking every shortcut they can to improve what little they have, where as the Elf is (Insert character example who takes their time and doesn't take time seriously because they have it in absurd abundance.)

[@zeroone8800]

The question is would they need 10-100x longer in a college? Would their office workers work at a fraction of human efficiency? If so wouldn't their intelligence stat be 3?

[@jacobburns7742]

@@zeroone8800 See, you don't get it. The answer is in the question. If it makes no sense for a 100 year old elf to be in a magic school, don't be a 100 year old elf. Be a 18 year old one. Then again, it is JUST FANTASY, and doesn't need to make sense. I digress. Your side of the argument is basically mute the moment this perspective is in place: Ya, a 100 year old elf would not be in a college, so don't have them in college. "But it makes no sense! They are 100, So why lvl 1!? Maybe they dropped out bro? Maybe college graduation doesn't automatically mean you freaking leveled up to 10. Why should a Wizard who finished academic studies have to be able to throw fireballs? Why can't a finished academic diploma simply be level 1 levels of magic? Maybe it actually takes 50 or so odd years to do what lvl 1 magic could do? Is magic not complex? And again, most full elves in most settings are not in a human town, or a human academy. They are among elves. Hell, I don't even HAVE wizard schools in my settings as it makes no sense and disrupts the allure of magic if it is something as simple as going to get a diploma. Magic is mysterious, complex, requires TRAVELLING, and EXPLORATION, and ANTHROPOLOGY to uncover and unravel.

[@jsrisonline2226]

I use electrum like the stock market, every day I roll a D10 to determine how many silver pieces 1 electrum piece is worth

[@sparkselm173]

7:56 ""Also causes huge logistical issues for something like a mage school. It would (very likely) be designed around human young adults (16-24-ish) and their rate of maturity." I think it's important to note here that there is no "universal" learning curve. In the real world, just among humans, we see instances of students progressing faster than their peers and skipping grades as a result, or slower than their peers and being kept in the same grade for multiple years; adding in races that can live 10x, 100x, even 1000x longer will exaggerate that effect. Sure, you can assign a "standard" that most people (of a particular race) will be able to keep pace with, but there's always those who will stand out from the rest, especially when you have such mixed lifespans, and trying to force the standard on every single person in not the best way to approach teaching. Personally, I think it would make more sense for such a setting to largely dismiss the physical maturity aspect, and focus more on the knowledge, understanding, and capability of the individuals to "group" students appropriately. It would allow the learning process to be much more catered to what the individuals need to learn effectively. In this situation, you could easily end up with a situation where a 16 year old human would end up in the same class, learning the same things, as a 50 year old human who had spent their life focused on martial matters and is only just beginning to learn magic. Sure, the 50 year old may have better knowledge and understanding regarding magic based on personal experience over their lifetime, but their capability would still be more closely matched to the 16 year old who is just starting their "adult" education. Same basic concept applies across races; a 100 year old elf may have superior knowledge, understanding, and capability than a 16 year old human, and thus be placed "above" them, learning more complex things from the start of their "adult" education (or possibly not).

[@kittyfirest0rm961]

werewolves being forced to be chaotic evil by default.

[@filipitambasco5166]

I always hated that dragonborn only live to their 80's if you go by the lore, so in a campaing i ran i ruled that dragonborn are lizardfolk with draconic blood, so their lifespan is just the mashed together average lifespan of a dragon with the average lifespan of a lizardfolk and halved it so, 1200 years by the dragon side plus 60 from the lizardfolk side equals 1260, half it and boom your average dragonborn would live to be 630 years

[@andybraid4263]

Night animals with no darkvision. Like cats...

[@Dloin]

7:58 just make it a magic university. Sure, most people are young when enrolling in real life university, but there are quiet a few 40-60 year olds that still wanna learn. And since elves aren't that numerous, you go for the same vibe. They just enroll when it's convenient for them and they wanna learn. For all I care give the university a more lenient policy when it comes to a hiatus, so elf wizards can return every other decade to see what others have studied and tell the folks what they found out.

[@thedragonknight3600]

I mean a shit ton of the lore people tend to ignore can be pretty frigging cool when you get into it. Like how yeah, the Gods in the Forgotten Realms are pretty active. But they were actively cast down at one point for being TOO active. The Chromatic Metallic thing is a matter of ideology rather than biology, and is something so ancient and so deeply engrained in them by their deities that it affects them on a spiritual level. Also the Abir-Tirol stuff is cool because, while generally irrelevant to the current setting, it DOES give Dragonborn society a unique standing as an Atheistic race as a whole. Not because they don’t think the gods exist, because they do, but because if they did exist then why did their pleas for help go unanswered for generations? They can’t know that Bahumet and gods like him desperately wanted to save these people, but simply couldn’t.

[@JeffreyJusticeLosey]

I swap goblins and hobgoblins so the hobgoblins are the small ones.

[@greatazuredragon]

Dragoborns not having tails.

[@marioreyes7971]

That tortles have short lifespans... nope, Tortles live longer than Dwarves and shorter than Elves.

[@H1Guard]

What's stupid is the idea that a long-lived races have childhood-to-lifespan proportional to human childhood-to-lifespan. Humans already have vastly longer childhood than mammals of similar size, which allows for lengthy education. There is no reason for significantly delayed maturity, even if the culture doesn't confer full adult status for a couple decades.

[@kennethkendaarkennedy2689]

weird idea people have about elves maturing slower than humans. Literally says on their page they mature at the same age, elves just live way longer and because of that their perception of what makes an elf "mature"(at least on a cultural level) means they have to be around 100 years of age. I agree them having a life span over like 500 is ridiculous. But as long as they're still around the age humans are, they'd have a human perception of time and time passage.

[@BigusGeekus]

This. Elven aging should be normal up to say their early 20s. They just get treated the same way we treat college students until they're 100 or so, "technically adult but not really".

[@kennethkendaarkennedy2689]

@@BigusGeekus even with the stereotype of elves being stuck in their ways it's safe to assume their neuroplasticity becomes more rigid only a few decades after humans

[@ryanedgerton1982]

TLDR: Chromatic dragons are naturally aligned with Tiamat (evil dragon goddess), whereas metallic dragons are naturally aligned with Bahamut (good dragon god). I assume this carries over to dragonborn as well, though depending on the lore I think Dragonborn may have come from another world entirely and generally reject both deities, so... yeah, I'm not too clear on that one honestly.

[@caninelupus8369]

It's not that Dragonborn outright reject Tiamat and Bahamut, they just hate dragons because their species was enslaved on that other world (Abeir, I think?). However, there is a cultural expectation to actively choose between good and evil (as dragonborn are defined by extremes), which often manifests as following one or the other.

[@blakeetter280]

I agree with that last guy, dnd racism is important to the lore. Wow what a sentence. But look at it like this, why wouldn’t goblins be viewed as evil? They do evil things. If they weren’t viewed as evil it would be hard to use them as bad guys at all, they’d just be another race. Furthermore people forget that in dnd these races actually have lore that states they were created with a purpose. The goblinoid races for example were made to be soldiers so they’re very violent, makes sense. In the same vein though giants weren’t built with such a strong purpose, so they don’t have a preset alignment just cultural biases. The same can be said of Drow because we know the difference between Drow and dark elves is demon blood and a powerful curse on the entire race. So it makes sense they’re usually evil because they’re made to be. Exceptions exist of course but they wouldn’t be half as interesting if it was the norm. Like Lisa Simpson playing football, they’re only special if there’s only one. And at the end of the day none of these things exist anyways so there’s no harm in it. Cuz if you wanna say that a certain race is supposed to represent a real life race, I’ll ask; what IRL race breathes fire? Which one’s green? Any of em have horns? No? Cuz they’re fantasy

[@HalfAssDevil]

I threw my players for a loop when they got to watch a clutch of silver dragon eggs hatch. Only one of the hatchlings was silver. The other four were red, gold, green, and the extremely rare pink. When she saw their faces, the mother dragon laughed and explained that dragons are all one species and their magic is wild until the day they hatch, thus settling them into a single, random form. Of course, somebody complained that this isn't how dragons worked. I responded in game as the ancient matron looked down on him with all of the sarcasm a millennia-old being could muster. "Oh, I'm so sorry, Mr expert. I've just lived for over two thousand years as a dragon and had four clutches so far. I figured that meant I had a good grasp of how my own biology works. But I apologize. Clearly, some bite-sized creature less than a century old who earlier admitted that I was the first dragon he's ever met would know better than me, all because he read a book written by some human who's entire civilization rose, fell, and was forgotten in the time it took me to enjoy a short nap. You're absolutely right. By all means, please tell me more about myself while I care for my multi-colored newborns."

[@IAsimov]

I'm yoinking this piece of lore. I like it.

[@HalfAssDevil]

@@IAsimov Have it. Enjoy.

[@Brenilla]

In my world, a lot is different. Here is Some fun ones. One is that Teiflings have their own kingdoms/socioties and held in similar regaurd to others. Most of their feindish origins hail back further than one or a few generations with new teiflings born from curses or contracts or what not are rare. Feinds do still act apon the world to various degrees so depending on reigions or people, unease is still likely. Another is that beings "touched by other plains" (Aaismar, teiflings, genasi etc) can mix and have mixed kids.

[@morrigankasa570]

The bits of Lore I ignore are related to Races/Backgrounds/Feats. Primarily, that they are restricted to certain Settings/Planes. For example: that Warforged are only in Eberron.

[@robinthrush9672]

The drow example at 10 minutes is one I hold to as well. If everyone can be anything, then you're not special for fighting against a stereotype. You've just severed a lot of interesting backstory taking that off the table. It was so much fun thinking of what could cause a succubus to become good and then lawful good after she became an angelic succubus.

[@MorinehtarTheBlue]

Hard agree. Too much push as of late to flatten the lore like this and make a large amount of D&D generic and flavourless. If you have corner cases to serve at your own table for your own campaign then you should meet it at that level.

[@Nyrufa]

I too ignore the idea that the traditionally evil races are evil because of their cultural upbringing, and not because of something inherently natural to them. I mean think about it, why the heck would the evil deities create a race of servants, and then give them the capacity to rebel against them? In my settings, a Goblin, Drow, Orc, est. that wants to be a good person will have an uphill battle as they constantly struggle against not just social prejudice, but against their own natural inclinations. Being evil comes as naturally to them as breathing, while being good requires constant effort to maintain.

[@grandempress1947]

I agree but also can understand where WOTC are coming from with their changes. It can get a little too real for some people. I'm playing a drow in a current campaign that's very traditional in terms of lore. My character has never set a single foot in the underdark yet is treated like Satan himself on sight. Most won't even talk to her without some hesitation or animosity. Growing up in the rural south, that's nearly a 1:1 to how I was done at times

[@MorinehtarTheBlue]

@@grandempress1947 This is precisely what I mean by campaign and table. There is a degree that the onus is on the DM and they are going needless hard on you. And that's even with my usual caveat. You're a part of a race that has raided and killed townsfolk in the here and now. It's really something that can be entirely left out of the narrative though and is another argument in favour of TTRPG safety tools. I'm genuinely sorry that someone felt the need to put you through that though.

[@robinthrush9672]

@@grandempress1947 I don't condone what you went through IRL. However, I feel that is the point of these established tropes. Give the player who may not have experienced the bigotry a small, safe taste of it and give them a chance to show the world how small minded it is. It's important for the player to understand what the probable treatment of the character being created is going to be and for the DM to communicate that. Your statement did cause me to worry that this lore change will cause more people to get shocked by this treatment if they're expecting current lore treatment in a traditional lore campaign they join.

[@JAY-gl5xd]

7:05 That short lifespan is why so many seek to extend their lives with magic. Becoming a lich or putting their soul into a construct, reincarting into a longer lived creature, making deals or pacts to buy a few extra years... Personally I like the different lifespans and wouldn't change it. But if it became a problem for a character, I'd offer a solution. like an Iron man style glowing magic rock in the chest or something. Boom! Your soul no longer ages (won't die of old age), but your body will, so stay active and invest in botox now.

[@ZarHakkar]

"Son, the secret to my long life is this jewel. So don't touch it. If you touch it I will die."

[@JAY-gl5xd]

Son: like every child ever, without thinking, immediately tries to touch it.

[@jesternario]

Let’s see, official settings, official deities, I ignore a lot of lore in favor of my own. The thing that always bothers me is the concept of the weave; the idea that magic comes from a “fabric of magic power” instead of your own spiritual energy or alchemical formulas. I like having magic be something special from the character’s own person, not because some special carpet exists in the astral plane.

[@scoots291]

I agree with the ep. I tell my players it's like the 2 dollar bill. It exists but it is not widely accepted anymore

[@erikzorger3311]

dragonborn are former dragon slaves and dont like dragons.

[@benthomason3307]

the shpeel about elves and humans going to school together made no sense to me. just because you age slower doesn't mean you learn slower?

[@sidecharacter7165]

Elves son’s even age slower initially. They age until physically adults the same.

[@santiagoteruel4145]

I always thougth the race alligments were more like instinctive things, like humans ancestors being more predilect for biolent confrontations and that stuff, without it being an absolute rule. However i think taking it as a generalization could also work

[@Kez_DXX]

I get the vibe that the perception of Tieflings is they're cool and whatnot and most forget the prejudice they face. Playing Baldur's Game 3 as a Tiefling was a rude awakening for one of my coworkers. Yeah, canonically you're gonna face some racism.

[@Kez_DXX]

@@mal2ksc if that's the casual racism, your players should try imagining competitive racism.

[@mentalrebllion1270]

I had a dm drop the genasi lore of having an average human life span. This is because it was a homebrew world and he hadn’t quite figured out how he wanted elementals to fit in. He wanted them included, just had t decided how. So when I introduced mine with a story of them having been a statue before the gathered fragmentary souls of the dead brought them into being, he decided all genasi would come into being a similar way. Some type of event that gathered and eventually brought that element to life. As a result he decided the actual lifespan of a genasi was that they were ageless. They were mortal and could still get hurt, diseased, or die, but, barring that, they didn’t have a set end of life date and could be considered near immortal. Of course, also because of their way of coming into being, they usually had a set duty or purpose in mind for themselves that they believed whole in. Like for mine, she would help the lingering souls of the dead move on as best she could and served as a guardian of the divine gate between the realm of the dead and the living (which is in her long forgotten temple the party found her in). So yeah, that’s how my dm removed lifespan for genasi. They are still considered super rare due to how they come about, and don’t have a set society, but they do exist. How well they blend in comes down to how their form manifests. Mine for instance looks like a very pale human as she was made from white jade. A bit unusual but not something you notice too much on a glance. I think it’s a neat way to integrate the elemental aspect into a world. Not too wild but makes sense with the mystical quality of them. Also yes, my character was a twist on the idea of my earth genasi being a literal gravestone. No one has picked up on that yet but I find it hilarious.

[@lordmars2387]

I like crystal spheres. I like having both kitchen sink options (literally anything you want to play go for it) and a world with cannon and reactive to players. I despise the elf trance, if taken to it's logical end they'd be so alien as to be unplayable. Any rewrite of lore that flattens the setting aka the Astral and the phlogiston are the same thing now. If it's weird it's feywild etc. I like Zakhara and the land of fate, calimshan just doesn't cut it for me. The SCAG factions, couldn't care less about them (Eberron did factions really well IMHO)

[@NotsilYmerej]

I think it’s more fun to have multiple interpretations of the same god, kinda like how Hinduism has multiple aspects of the same god (even if they have different names). Lolth, being a Drow goddess and thus associated with spiders, can have multiple interpretations based on spiders: creepy creepy crawlies (how many people see them), “don’t mess with me, I won’t mess with you” (how they tend to act), and purge the evil of the world by any means necessary (how spiders can be creepy, but they eat other pests). This extends to other Gods, both traditionally good and evil. A god of conquest favors all conquest, both violent subjugation and conquering yourself. A hunting God doesn’t care if you overhunt. A party God favors both overindulgence, and partying responsibly. Stuff like that

[@tommerker8063]

don't tell that to a barbarian worshipping a god of conquest, they are just gonna start stabbing themselves.

[@Lampoluke]

To me DnD wise are: 1) Elves and Dragons can die of old age, which I just ignore. Elves and Dragons will keep living and become always more powefful as times goes on (with dragons also growing in size) evenctually they become demigods that can potentially become full fledged gods. 2) Dragonborns as a whole. Their lore sucks, they have no tail, they are not even draconic, ffs kobold god/patriarch is Tiamat's grandchild and therefore more dragon than any sort of dragonborn. I just tell my players to play half-dragon, the cooler race that was banned in favour of dragonborn, exept halfs have tails and sometimes wings, also they aren't a proper race and instead tou chose the species of your non-dragon parent and stick a bunch of cool dragon themed bonuses on that. 3) Ao, the judge of all gods, is boring as fuck and I simply choose to not have himand just have different factions of god that are blocked into a cold-war like scenario where they can't fight directly or they will tear down some of the elemental planes with their power, so instead they wage proxy wars in the multiverse. Like Tiamat and Bahamut are on a truce, but every time a kobold kills a gnome the god of Kobolds becomes slightly closer to being freed from his prison, and if he ever comes back he can become a minor god working for Tiamat and tip the balance of power. Therefore Bahamut orders his disciples to help the gnomish pantheon, but they don't want to do it openly, so the higher ranks of Bahamut's clergy will fabricate propaganda to have the two religions come together, even by aiding kobolds and have a whole gnomish city be destriyed, only to come in and offer help to the refugees and maybe retaliate against the kobolds, so that some gnomes now start to believe in Bahamut too.

[@richardstamm2144]

I wasn't even aware clerics and paladins were supposed to be monotheistic. In this world, believing that gods exist is like believing in the laws of physics here. A lot less faith, and very easy to demonstrate their existence (or the best understanding of it). My own cleric/paladin is 100% devoted to her god, but through adventuring has also started paying respects to a similarly aligned god whose followers needed help. It makes sense especially when you consider that gods have their own friendships and alliances among themselves.

[@vulpesignis2201]

I just remove race featuees that would limit the space for creativity, lizardfolk cant feel emotions and are forced to be realists? I aint digging that, do a empathist lizardfolk if you want. Kenku cant create udeas and only follow rules? Idgaf, I will let my players make a artist kenku if they want to Things like that are off my table, go fucking nuts

[@Damandra]

1st how does a DnD chanel not now of Cromatic and Metallic dragons ? Now to the anwser of your question. Cromatic Dragons are generally evil. And the Metallics are the "good" dragons. They kill each other on site. Even hatchlings and eggs are no exception. It is more or less part of their blood their instincts. At least that is the real short version of the 5e lore.

[@InterruptingOctopus]

i honestly believe thered be a good number of defectors from lolth society. eilistraee and to a lesser extent vaehraun being the most common avenues away from her. eilistraeeism would be THE good drow faction or at least the first place you'd find bonafide "i want to fix what lolth did to us" drow. vaehraun wants his mom out of the picture so he can argue that all elves should establish "elven supremacy." still evil but at least its a new flavor of thinking. drizzt should not be one of the only defectors from lolthism. however i do agree that there should be at least a culture shock for any defectors finding out that the surface is a LOT less Machiavellian than menzobaranzen

[@vivansolace]

I've been working on a HomeBrew where dragons are of any alignment and can be Albino to normal in color they live in a world where the Gods are still at war. Theracess of my world are just as varied also the world is High Fantasy meets the beginnings of Steampunk. I'm still working out all of the details but have had a couple of game sessions with players game testing it so far no real long campaigns have lasted to really flesh out my world. the gods are at war simply because they all want some part of the world as their own. One god ripped out a huge chump of the planet and put this large now floating continent moving around the world. this world is ten times larger than the sun they move around.

[@Her_Imperious_Condescension]

"Druids don't like metal!" I've played a Warforged Druid before (flavoured way more like a transformer) and people _kept bringing this up_ like a fundamental reason that my character is IMPOSSIBLE. No, I'm not making him be made out of wood. He's a robot, not a golem. My DM was cool with it, and that should be all that matters. But when I showed the character to other friends, that was _all they cared about._

[@TheTolnoc]

Everything about gnolls.

[@robinthrush9672]

12:00 I believe this person has a misunderstanding of what an average is.

[@foisopracurtir6389]

"Majory"

[@TheTolnoc]

That Sword of Brainwashing the angels are trying to 'fix' Zariel with. Shit like that is probably why she 'fell' in the first place.

[@Dewald]

7:11 My favorite idea is when an adventuring party enters a tavern, and the bartender signs and pulls out a paper with each race's allowed drinking age on it.

[@SockieTheSockPuppet]

Their retcon erasure of Noble Draconians and Steel Dragons, especially.

[@azathoththe3rd]

Half-Orcs and Half-Ogres are canonically almost always the product of r@pe

[@sidecharacter7165]

How pathetic slings are. Hannibal’s slimgers brought Rome to its knees.

[@georgemeyers7172]

Honestly I would probably do the same thing when dealing with Alignment, same as the last user.

[@faviankennedy7171]

The spell plague and anything to do with Mystra. Never made any sense.

[@paulbarnett5528]

I ignore almost all of it as I run a homebrewed game

[@themadvirus613]

The way I use electrum is as a black market currency.

[@moonkingdomify]

The Astral and Etherial used to be very different when they were introduced in Planescape.

[@VinnValor]

Needing spell components. Enough said

[@LocalMaple]

I’d say it make sense for some classes. Wizards need materials for their formulas, Artificers construct their spells, Druids extract mana from nature. But those with a patron, who borrow magic from said being?

[@VinnValor]

@@LocalMaple not saying it doesn't make sense, it's just a hassel to keep track of, manage for what we need now and for the future, and it just a waist of time in me and my friends eyes. May not be for everyone but we just tend to retcon it to make more space for RP and combat.

[@joelrobinson5457]

Most I believe were intended as jokes, hence being why there are so many alternatives to them, because who wouldn't choose a focus?

[@sidecharacter7165]

Tracking ammunition and carry weight too.

[@VinnValor]

@@sidecharacter7165 right on the nose

[@alexeisenhauer5874]

Yeenogu the demon lord of wild carnage is canonically male, but they’re a gnoll/hyena person and the females are the tougher hyenas that bully males and are often confused for males

[@paigeepler]

My homebrew setting's version of Yeenoghu actually is female! That said, she also has a vastly different backstory than the usual depiction.

[@SkadiaXD]

Alright, I mostly ignore... just, a lot of the planar/species background lore (some of that stuff is just eurgh), but for a pretty regular gamerule, nocturnal species not having darkvision is something I just ignore. My personal take on darkvision is that in a world where light isn't the only source of energy, nocturnal species have developed the ability to perceive trace amounts of magic in things, giving them faint silvery-grey outlines of shapes in a short range. Now, the fact that this ability is so niversally present among even tangentially nocturnal humanoids (elves, I'm looking at you), while animals like cats or wolves don't have it? That, to me, is bs. So in my games, if a creature is primarily nocturnal/relies heavily on sight in a low light area, they have darkvision.

[@benaplin9861]

I like to ignore the Elemental Planes, and just have an Elemental Chaos like in 4e, complete with it containing the Abyss, and being a stand in for Limbo. Why would you go to an endless, airless mountain, or an unending inferno except to meet with a random npc who has thr McGuffin you need.

[@paigeepler]

I also prefer the Elemental Chaos, because I think the separate Elemental Planes don't make any goddamn sense.

[@lockwoan01]

Alignments being set in stone is one thing I tend to toss out. After all, what if the Black Dragon that "abducted the Princess" only did so because the "Knight in Shining Armor's" intentions were actually less than noble, and the dragon was actually saving the woman in distress from some serious harm? I actually did that in a story I wrote. Then there's taking races from the various realms and saying that they can exist in *any* realm. In some fanfiction stuff I have, I got Giff (hippos), Loxodon (elephants), Leonin (lions), and other such races from different realms living in the same world. (Try to tell me that it wouldn't work. Somehow, I think that big place south of Europe proves that I'm onto something.) I also like the idea of giving more creatures the Swallow ability - you're telling me that the Adult Dragon *can't* just Swallow that pesky knight, and merely Bites them? Finally, I like saying that the creatures in VGM and MToF (and other such races and creatures and so on - that's a lot of ands) and the revised ones in MPMotM are basically variants/subspecies of a "Base" race, especially if the revised one is significantly different.

[@DrawciaGleam02]

Ooh, I've thought about doing that with characters that appear as antagonists in one of my favorite anime series! I create a scenario where those characters have good moral alignments. 😊

[@lockwoan01]

@@DrawciaGleam02 There's always something.

[@Sorain1]

Funny thing is, the 3.5 MM had a little sidebar on that I really loved. "Always X Alignment" meant '85% of the race have at least 1 portion of this alignment.' and "Usually X Alignment" was '60% have at least 1 portion' All kinds of fun can be had thanks to that and it struck me as making a LOT more sense that way. Have to agree on the Swallow thing, but I've never actually considered it before.

[@lockwoan01]

@@Sorain1 Eh, I got the Swallow thing being used in a fetish-based D&D-themed interactive. Idea is that damage is based off of a Predator's size and CR/Player Level.

[@ninalindqvist4032]

Always X alignment is a sure way to guarantee that people will make lots of characters of that type without that alignment.

[@Jessie_Helms]

Now? All of it! Homebrew baby. But even in terms of “what lore have I intentionally _not_ copied over” I have a few. Demons and devils being different is stupid, and it’s actually a little vague ATM as to whether or not either exist in my world, but definitely not both. You mean to tell me there’s 2 competing, fundamentally evil, effectively unkillable unless you’re on their home plane, nearly infinite in number _realms of beings_ and they haven’t conquered the multiverse? When you’re dealing with _infinity_ gods, angles, and adventurers mean nothing.

[@MalloonTarka]

To quote the Spider-man Doc Ock meme, "There's three, actually."

[@Jessie_Helms]

@@MalloonTarka wait what? Demons, devils, and who else?

[@MalloonTarka]

@@Jessie_Helms Yugoloths/daemons.

[@caninelupus8369]

the reason they haven't conquered the multiverse is because they're fighting each other in the Blood War. Devils are Lawful Evil, while Demons are Chaotic Evil, leaving them opposed on a fundamental level. Demons also have *extreme* difficulty organizing and can't really get their shit together, meaning that their numbers advantage is basically worthless, while the Devils organization allows them to withstand the endless tides of Demons.

[@passionatelobster1226]

All of it, I run a homebrew setting.

[@JAY-gl5xd]

How dragons make half dragons. I've heard it's official lore that half dragons are made by magic. Basically transmutation magic cast on the nondragon's genetic contribution. But I've also heard Ed Greenwood say that dragons make half dragons the old fashioned way, with or without the aid of polymorph. So in my games, if you can save against the frightful presence, make a good charisma check, then... fade to black. Or roll for grapple depending on the vibe of the players. And then a will save to shake away the shame.

[@Ryukuro]

Shame?

[@MorinehtarTheBlue]

Sounds like confusing the draconians of Dragonlance with Half-Dragons to me. Of course their it's evil clerical transmutation magic to make good dragon eggs hatch as humanoid soldiers.

[@angelahooper4779]

Tieflings only being human skin tone or red. Also, druids using metal. It never really made sense to me.. raw metals can be found in nature?

[@tommerker8063]

but raw metals are pretty useless. at best they are shiny rocks and at worst they are basicaly sand. to properly make use of metal you have to destroy quite a bit of nature, be it cutting down woods for charcoal or digging huge pits (and removing the environment on top in the process) to get brown coal. not realy something any decent druid would support.

[@postapocalypticnewsradio]

PANR has tuned in.

[@BoredTAK5000]

Almost everything when it comes to drow’s history. It’s just so edgy for the sake of being edgy

[@emperortime4380]

“Tortles live a long time.” Thank you!

[@christopherbravo1813]

I have elected to ignore the retcon of Half-Elves and Half-Orcs.

[@Maddog3060]

My dwarves are Germanic, not Scottish. I find making them have "ze akscent" usually associated with 'evil' for the last 70 years amuses me, especially as they're basically morally variable like humans, just with different physical nature, and therefore not automatically evil. Same with Elves, though they're French, and all that entails. Yes, I do crib ideas from elsewhere; so do you. There is *nothing* new under the sun. Just file off the serial numbers and make it yours with effort and panache and not a lazy copy-paste and things'll be fine. Not a DM; one of these days I'll write that novel...

[@Badartist888]

I always just go with "Gods aren't omnipotent" and essentially have a tank of power, filled up by worship/ belief. Whispering to their followers, scrying, granting spells (especially low level ones) is fairly easy. Sending an avatar, appearing in person, or direct involvement (miracles) drains this power super quick. It's why they want worshipers and let Clerics act on their behalf.

[@TheMightyBattleSquid]

I did the same thing at 7:00 and my DM just COULD NOT understand the concept of somebody believing in and worshipping multiple gods in a setting where they all objectively exist. What's even weirder was that the campaign was based on Egyptian Mythology, so he had made it such that all the gods were on the same side. Even the more "chaotic" gods weren't evil.

[@graysonllewellyn8734]

All of it. WotC forgot at some point that DnD is, at it's core, JUST an engine. They stopped saying "These are the mechanics, the world is up to the DM" and started saying "This is the world, the mechanics are.... the DM's problem." And I am no longer here for it.

[@gameraven13]

Pretty much everything but my biggest example is races. There are “core” races that exist on the material plane. Human, Beastfolk (aarakocra, tortle, tabaxi, etc.), dwarves, elves, gnomes, and orcs. Everything else is an “extraplanar race” from Marath, a homebrew plane that is basical Sigil meets Ravnica that goes to the other plane. It is lorded over by the goddess of knowledge who created my world’s gith as scribes of history and protectors of interplanar disputes hence the zerai/yanki divide. Over time the various gith near portals were warped on a physical level by the planes they guarded. Tieflings were gith guarding the Hells, Aasimar the heavens, goblinoids were gith corrupted by the Abyss, etc. I also have a homebrew lore for warforged/autognomes as almost an Omnics from Overwatch stand in. Oh also gnolls in my setting are demons created by Yeenoghu, not humanoid. Technically ooze doesn’t exist either and I’ve split aberrations into horror for evil ones and stellar for good ones, horror basically being like the MtG creature type since that’s the type they gave mindflayers in the crossover sets. I’ve done the same for fiend. The world recognizes demon and devil in the lore as separate creature types. Oozes are either elemental or demon depending on if they seem more neutral or if they seem like they’d come from my world’s version of Juiblex.

[@colecook834]

The concept of maturity with elves has more to do with when they stop having past memories as dreams. They physically mature/mentally mature as quickly as humans. But for elves, adulthood happens when those past memories cease coming in. At least if i remember correctly Also, d&d AND pathfinder is completely rich in lore. So, i tend to stick with it... also i never left 3.5.

[@RocRolWriter]

I actually have an entirely different problem with the alignments. What even is "good" and "evil"? Who is drawing the lines here and why does EVERYBODY in the setting seem to agree with where those lines are? Real life is not like that; people draw their own lines, usually with intent to make sure that they and the people they love are "good" (neutral at worst) and everyone who acts counter to that are "evil" (neutral at best). Consequently, I'll rarely use that part of the alignment chart. "But wouldn't that get rid of the racism?" No, because groups of people will always find reasons to hate each other. Everybody hating the drow, and the drow hating everybody else, can be very simply explained with "They are not like us." Same with the animosity between the elves and dwarves. "But wouldn't that lose you the intrigue of someone rising above the evilness of their people?" ...If the one "rising above" the faults of his own people is JUST leaving without trying to change anything that he left behind, that means you're just getting the same story over and over as random heroes spring out of the dark (usually separated by several generations so that they can't benefit from each other's fights), and that'll just get boring. Show me a hero taking steps to change his own society to something that can live in peace with neighboring societies; it's a harder fight for him, but he's making the fight easier for future heroes with an end goal of interracial peace.

[@the_epipan]

At least in D&D 3.5e the Dragonborn are not really a race, they are members of any other race who for one reason or another (usually by worshiping or swearing allegiance/servitude to Bahamut) are transformed into what are called Dragonborns; they have more similarities to Medusa than Hercules, only that the transformation is a blessing, not a punishment. They are not Half-Dragons, that's why the "-born" in "dragonborn", because they were born again. This is why Dragonborn DO NOT have tails, because they retain the general anatomy of their original race. And that is why there are extremely few Dragonborn that exist in whatever world. People who don't know this and stubbornly want the Dragonborn with tails are acting ignoring the lore... and it is doing the same thing that those from Rings of Power do, making a sequel or prequel without taking into account the previous book. And then the owners of D&D, to leave people satisfied so they can continue charging them money, give them what they ask for. If you want a anthro dragon with tail... create a kobold character ;D And well, about metal and Druids. They are supposed to "not be in contact with -too much metal for too long-" so something like a sword is fine because it's not like armor that they have to wear it in contact with them all the time for several hours (and It is much more metal), you use a sword for a short time and then return it to the sheath so it is not in direct contact with you for too long (and even in this case the 3.5e manual tells you that although they do not lose their powers, it does cause annoyance and discomfort). Or you can leave the sword on a cart or hanging on your mount. Anyway, a Druid wouldn't really need to use even metal weapons because from level 1 they can make any wooden staff cause 1d10 damage and later with the Ironwood spell they can use wooden weapons and armor as if they were made of metal. Regarding the differences in life expectancy... before there was a mechanic that gave more meaning to this, more coherence (until the first edition of AD&D only certain races could reach the highest levels of various Classes, elves for example, while the other races had caps that limited them to lower levels. I guess this was removed because many people wanted to be a human but at the same time were frustrated that they couldn't be "the coolest" by reaching the highest levels). Even with the elimination of the above, I think these people are making their lives too complicated. 5 or 10 thousand years ago, humans lived an average of 30 years... and now in many places the average is 75 or 80, with some places where it is increasingly common to reach 100. When the average lifespan was 45 years people simply wait less, they used to get married and have children even before they were 15 years old. That is why there are still traditions in which, for example, 13-year-old children are celebrated as adults. In the matter of a magic school, it is not wrong to take humans as the standard, since humans are the majority, and an elf going to study there should not be different... perhaps the elf would be uncomfortable that everything It is programmed too hastily and the topics are treated with too little depth for his taste... but he would learn in the same time as any human.

[@fred_derf]

Half-Elves and Half-Orcs. It doesn't make sense that such divergent species should be able to interbreed.

[@tuojiangoman3228]

That a race is automatically bent towards being good or evil, for obvious reasons.