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But then he gave us Solars and Planetars ("Monster Manuel II") which are nothing more than archangels and angels, respectively. I used to use them as NPCs when someone got their Divine Intervention roll, and often enough when a demon got out of hand for a party to handle (looking at you, Demogorgon!) Once, a had a group that wanted to be all-evil and set them up to eventually fight an archangel. Idiots were so evil they didn't even make it out of the tavern. lol

As for Musk, I don't have skin in the game on this one (I used to play Magic:The Gathering religiously before it got so woke it was sickening) but if it riles all the right people, hell, good on Elon! :D

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Well whaddayaknow, the vast and formless mass of the Internet turned up the very thing.

https://annarchive.com/files/Drmg041.pdf (p.39).

I’m not trying to (or going to) argue with you about what should be done or how a ‘monad’ or a ‘solar’ replaces X or Y or how many people decided to ignore the direction given (following a listing of said stats for the Biblical classes of angels in The Dragon #35); I put in the note as a data point of where EGG expressed D&D to be, as a counterweight to the current wokeness.