Recent content by Veltharis ap Rylix

Is there no other setting where, say, a powerful mageocracy might have tried creating an army of construct soldiers to fight a war with, even if that happened so far in the distant past that only a couple of those soldiers have survived to the present day and the nation they fought for is...

And yet they reverted the high elf => eladrin change, to the point of us now having versions of both that are quite distinct from one another... Shrugs The way I see it, changing warforged to, for the sake of argument, "ironforged" would be equivalent to changing tiefling to something like...

The Warforged name is established, so I'd say keep it as primary simply for brand recognition purposes, but honestly, that's a minor issue. Not noted in the existing 5e tabaxi description(s), but as pointed out earlier in the other Greyhawk thread: Tabaxi and rakasta were always functionally...

So change the name: "Warforged, also known as [insert secondary name here] in some worlds, are a type of sentient construct that..." Done. It's no harder than recognizing that tabaxi and rakasta are essentially the same thing and don't need separate stat blocks, even if they go by different...

It's one of the reasons I'm honestly baffled they weren't included in Monsters of the Multiverse with the changeling and shifter... Kalashtar are firmed hooked into Eberron lore in a way that's hard to disentangle, but for all their Eberron-specific flavoring, the core idea of what warforged...

Honestly, just treat a warforged as a sentient type of lesser golem, which is essentially what they already are. That lets them theoretically exist anywhere that has (or once had, at least) wizards/artificers/etc. capable of creating golems and you can make them as one-of-a-kind or as...

The thing about orcs in Greyhawk, or anywhere else: You can still have orc populations that don't get along with neighboring human/elf/dwarf/etc. populations without them being definitionally evil - just give historical/political reasons for the conflict, like generations-long competition over...

I'm rather fond of what Pathfinder did with their Aphorite (LN) and Ganzi (CN) planetouched, myself. My personal version of the Great Wheel imports a lot from their Great Beyond cosmology.

I've seen the 5e cosmology map. It's a diagram representing a conceptual framework, not a literal physical map you can use to navigate walking from one plane to another. These supposed "crossings" from the Upper Planes to the Feywild and the Lower Planes to the Shadowfell pass through the...

Genasi are of elemental (i.e. inner planar) heritage, which is from the "opposite end" of the cosmology. They have no inherit connection whatsoever to the neutral outer planes.

Pre-4e succubi were demons, 4e made them devils (as part of 4e's cosmology overhaul), then 5e split the difference and made them an independent, "any evil" type of fiend, presumably to keep from invalidating as much as possible of what they had previously written on the subject. They probably...