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Cam Banks · 18th June 2008, 08:52 PM

I'm having a hard time understanding the difference between redefine and adding to.

Dragonlance has elves that are not fey, for instance. Their version of the eladrin—high elves, likely the Silvanesti for instance—don't teleport. Is removing the fey origin and so forth a redefinition?

What about something like this:

ELVES
<Insert Worldname>'s elves have all of the traits of elves in the 4E Player's Handbook except for the following:
Blah Blah: You have blah blah. This replaces the standard elf's blah.

?

If not, then does the GSL expect new campaign settings to essentially drop the core D&D cosmology and background into every world whole cloth? Not even the various official D&D campaign settings do that.

Cheers,
Cam

18th June 2008, 08:52 PM	#16 (permalink)
Cam Banks Rusty Sellsword Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: SE Wisconsin, USA Posts: 1,444	I'm having a hard time understanding the difference between redefine and adding to. Dragonlance has elves that are not fey, for instance. Their version of the eladrin—high elves, likely the Silvanesti for instance—don't teleport. Is removing the fey origin and so forth a redefinition? What about something like this: ELVES <Insert Worldname>'s elves have all of the traits of elves in the 4E Player's Handbook except for the following: Blah Blah: You have blah blah. This replaces the standard elf's blah. ? If not, then does the GSL expect new campaign settings to essentially drop the core D&D cosmology and background into every world whole cloth? Not even the various official D&D campaign settings do that. Cheers, Cam __________________ Designer \| Managing Editor \| Margaret Weis Productions Burned-Out Mercenaries. Bad-Ass Gnomes. Haunted Swords. Ugly Heroines. Dragonlance: The Sellsword Now Available!