mikemearls60 points20 days ago
I try to keep up with Critical Role, plus I tune into Girls, Guts, and Glory and Maze Arcana. However, having a toddler and two dogs means most of my non-work time is spent playing with them. I just finished Stranger Things season 2 this weekend, and we still haven’t finished watching Wonder Woman. from discussion AMA: Mike Mearls, D&D Creative Director.

mikemearls12 points21 days ago
We tend to announce three months before release, if that helps. Comment from discussion AMA: Mike Mearls, D&D Creative Director.

mikemearls10 points21 days ago
More likely to produce options that have similar story elements but better mechanics. Comment from discussion AMA: Mike Mearls, D&D Creative Director.

I jest. Have you ever come across any rule which actually prevented a concept from working? If so, can you provide a recent example?

mikemearls41 points20 days ago
When it happens, it’s almost always because of bonus actions or the goofy definition of what a weapon actually is. Also, implements can cause headaches.

I obviously use bonus actions in my game, but otherwise pay no mind to what is actually a weapon or whether someone has the right implement to cast a spell. Those rules are basically there to help a DM if a player is doing something cheesy. from discussion AMA: Mike Mearls, D&D Creative Director.

For me, my first character was a cleric of Pelor and I will always remember how he died summoning a little bit of the sun to take down a vampire coven.

mikemearls11 points21 days ago
I always liked sun gods, so Pelor is up there. My favorites right now are the gods as I tinkered with them in the my Nentir Vale setting. I made the gods the leaders of various empires, who ascended to defeat the primordials. So like Erathis was an empress, Asmodeus was the king of a tiefling realm, and so on. Makes them more as characters rather than distant figures. from discussion AMA: Mike Mearls, D&D Creative Director.

mikemearls7 points21 days ago
Not likely. I think multiclassing and subclasses handles most of the iconic mixtures well. Comment from discussion AMA: Mike Mearls, D&D Creative Director.

what are the reasons for restricting dmsguild submissions to forgotten realms & are there any plans to change that in 2018?

Back in previous editions, some of the monster manuals and such had frequent sidebars about how creatures are different or unique in specific settings, but 5e seems to have gone full bore on forgotten realms & forgotten realms only. Does this mean that we might see some setting specific monster manuals and such in print?

A lot of what’s been said about eberron in podcasts & interviews gives the feeling that there is a desire to just turn it into a pulpy forgotten realms, but that knife cuts both ways. If eberron is to be linked to Forgotten realms by say… a Lolth’s portal from underdark (two things not in eberron) or spelljammer style ships, how much thought is given to the (likely successful) colonization efforts of faerun from the more advanced & organized khorvairan nations likely to make the spanish & english empires look like armatures as they carve up & elevate faerun?

mikemearls18 points20 days ago
That would be in an Eberron-specific thing, but we would think of them on a more cosmic basis

We wanted to keep things focused, and are planning to add more settings in the future. No date yet.

Setting-specific monsters would appear in a setting product. Monsters in our rulebooks thus far are aimed at the general multiverse.

Eberron is much harder to reach than other worlds. There have been some incursions from other worlds on a very limited basis, but otherwise few entities know of it. It’s almost as if something has tried to hide it away from the rest of the multiverse… from discussion AMA: Mike Mearls, D&D Creative Director.