When working on your D&D campaign, remember that your modern mindset will tend toward the scientific, but a good campaign embraces the mythic. Look to build grand truths reflected in individual choices and events, rather than exhaustive, explanatory histories.
— Mike Mearls (@mikemearls) November 2, 2018
That mountain range? An ancient king was insulted that the soaring mountains stood above his lands, and he sought to master them by building a fort atop the mightiest peak. The storm giants, insulted that a human would claim such heights, cursed the peaks with an endless tempest.
— Mike Mearls (@mikemearls) November 2, 2018