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Given that the PDFs cost $135 by themselves, that is a great price

oh, sure, they dangle the nostalgia carrot, but if during design they have to choose between finding a new audience or catering to one...

It's neither coincidence, nor important. The game changes and every setting in the game reacts retroactively to add in those elements...

they have 10 times the player base now that they had then, and most of the old ones are not playing any longer. They would be fools to...

This is from the 1e Dragonlance Adventures book, talking about Lord Soth. "Yet waiting for him along the way was a troop of elven...

Lots of them were seen. Just not by PCs or mentioned by the incredibly sparse tidbits of history in the official setting. Metric...

if they look the same in all settings, then there is nothing setting specific about it, that is just D&D, and as D&D changes, so can...

and I am going to say you are wrong, there were dwarven clerics, they just disappeared with the other clerics...

so it is not part of the setting but part of the game, and a new version of the game can change it without changing the setting, the two...

No. It requires no rewrite of the setting. There was nothing written in the setting about dwarves being unable to be wizards. The...

I disagree, DL works just the same as it did in 1e/2e, the changes they made are irrelevant to the setting, they are technical updates...

Not all canon is equally important. Knights having mustaches can easily be removed, it holds no value whatsoever. The cataclysm being...

As far as I can tell only setting specific mechanics like defiling/preserving are tied to setting. You say Greyhawk is tied to...

yeah, they are pretty aggressively blocking anyone who disagrees with them. Just took about 10 minutes after my post... Oh well, no...

not sure how you think someone buying Forge is taking anything away from anyone else. It's not like their 2014 artificers magically...