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<blockquote data-quote="humble minion" data-source="post: 8261306" data-attributes="member: 5948"><p>Oh wow, well if you've read the thread then you've already probably seen about 400 questions! And to be honest, even a stream-of-consciousness reaction to any random bits of the stuff in the thread that catches your attention would be awesome. But as for some of the ones I've been particularly curious about...</p><p></p><p>The adherence to prior canon of the Gazetteer line. How much scope for deviating from the pre-3e line did Arthaus have? Obviously the timeline advanced a bit and there were the inevitable changes resulting from that, but if you wanted to could you have, for instance, replaced darklords, or had a new upheaval along the lines of the Grand Conjunction and rearranged domains, or similar? Or could you have even retconned some of the cities to be bigger? (Demographics and the lack of a really major urban centre in the Core is something we've discussed in the thread at length)</p><p></p><p>Similarly, with Sithicus, were there limits on what Dragonlance-y material you were or were not able to use?</p><p></p><p>Thoughts on the place of demihumans and magic in the setting in general? There always seemed to be a tension between the humanocentric and low-magic gaslamp Gothic aesthetic that RL was emulating, and the mechanical realities of D&D where there's probably going to be a wizard and a dwarf or whatever in most parties, and the fighter is much more likely to be wearing full plate than greatcoat and tricorn. Did that ever bother you in the development process, and if so, how did you square the circle?</p><p></p><p>Any ideas on the origin/purpose of the memory-rewriting effect that happened to people who stayed in Darkon for too long?</p><p></p><p>Where DOES Strahd get his opera cloaks from, given he wears them all the time while there's no opera houses closer than Dementlieu?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="humble minion, post: 8261306, member: 5948"] Oh wow, well if you've read the thread then you've already probably seen about 400 questions! And to be honest, even a stream-of-consciousness reaction to any random bits of the stuff in the thread that catches your attention would be awesome. But as for some of the ones I've been particularly curious about... The adherence to prior canon of the Gazetteer line. How much scope for deviating from the pre-3e line did Arthaus have? Obviously the timeline advanced a bit and there were the inevitable changes resulting from that, but if you wanted to could you have, for instance, replaced darklords, or had a new upheaval along the lines of the Grand Conjunction and rearranged domains, or similar? Or could you have even retconned some of the cities to be bigger? (Demographics and the lack of a really major urban centre in the Core is something we've discussed in the thread at length) Similarly, with Sithicus, were there limits on what Dragonlance-y material you were or were not able to use? Thoughts on the place of demihumans and magic in the setting in general? There always seemed to be a tension between the humanocentric and low-magic gaslamp Gothic aesthetic that RL was emulating, and the mechanical realities of D&D where there's probably going to be a wizard and a dwarf or whatever in most parties, and the fighter is much more likely to be wearing full plate than greatcoat and tricorn. Did that ever bother you in the development process, and if so, how did you square the circle? Any ideas on the origin/purpose of the memory-rewriting effect that happened to people who stayed in Darkon for too long? Where DOES Strahd get his opera cloaks from, given he wears them all the time while there's no opera houses closer than Dementlieu? [/QUOTE]
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