Editing Mystara (section)

==Mr. Welch's 5e Mystara PHB==
Shortly after [[Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition]] launched, [[Mr. Welch]] launched his Youtube career creating lore videos to introduce the newfags 5e brought in to Mystara, his favorite D&D setting. After Wizards announced [[DM's Guild]] as a way for fans to <s>further enrich Hasbro and give the D&D team an out from doing their jobs</s> publish their homebrews, he spent years working on a full conversion of Mystara to 5e, blowing through hundreds of dollars to commission interior art, hammering the clusterfuck that is Mystara continuity into a coherent whole, and generally [[/tg/ gets shit done|getting shit done.]]

...And then WotC screwed him over by revealing that DM's Guild would only be available for settings that had already been published officially, which for most of 5e's life was just [[Forgotten Realms]]. Despite this Mr. Welch pressed on, hoping to attract enough social media attention for Wizards to grant him an exception, until they published Van Richten's Guide to [[Ravenloft]]. It sucked. Finally realizing that nobody in charge of D&D cared about the old school and WotC-senpai noticing him would only lead to a similar level of canon rape, he published the [[Player's Handbook]] he had already completed for free and opened a Patreon, flipping Wizards the bird on the way out and asking for donations to fund a future DMG and Monster Manual.

Mr. Welch being a fan of [[Old School Roleplaying]], the Mystara PHB breaks 5e's ideology in some interesting ways:

* Racial restrictions on classes are back. Dwarves get Resistance to Magic but can't use arcane magic at all, and only races with "natural talent" like elves can take the [[gish]]-y subclasses.
* "Half-" races don't exist in Mystara; you take a "mixed-race" background instead. Ironically, this is what Wizards would do a couple years later for D&D One, albiet for [[SJW|impure reasons]].
* The standard portfolio-based cleric domains have been replaced with the classic Spheres of the Immortals.
* The magical snowflake races ([[Dragonborn]] and the [[Planetouched]]) don't exist. If you want to play them the DM has to [[Rule Zero]] them in.
* The magic item economy explicitly exists and comes with a big table for what's available where, as opposed to the 5e standard where the DM has free license to [[RPGA|fuck you over]] by not giving you the magic gear you need to be effective.