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Treating Xorn as civilised beings rather than animals, which is how the tend to be used, makes me think of the Horta in Star Trek: The...

Yes but. Most PoL seem to focus on the idea of humanity (and allies) barely holding out against the monsters. Whereas in the Dalelands...

To be fair, the Dalelands are an ill-defined area of wilderness interspersed with rural settlements without national boarders.

On the one hand, yes absolutely. On the other hand, the causality is basically backwards for that, the Nentir Vale is pretty clearly...

That’s probably why they appointed a head of franchising: so next time it happens they have someone to fire.

And, by the by, if this is what people are hoping for ENWorld, of all institutions, to liberate D&D from, I've got some pretty bad news...

The sourcebooks don’t really discuss “culture” in that way, you get a better idea from the novels. It’s not based on a specific real...

Its kind of dominated by Elminster and his do-gooding cronies (also: less sea).

To be fair, Tolkien was intentionally copying the inciting incident from a 1200 year old poem, so it has vintage. He means the Hobbit.

Not the message. Fighting evil is fine, Yoda and Obi Wan killed lots of bad guys. The issue is doing it without fear, anger or hate. And...

It's a bit of a tangent to good vs evil settings, but I've always liked the approach where most of the setting is 'unexplored'. You...

That sounds very familiar! I know it describes the Dalelands as "Classic Heroic Fantasy" but that seems a bit too on the nose!

That's a rather particular definition of SF and not one I've encountered before in any discussion of what it means to be SF including...

Just wrong.

I think it’s more inherent self-destructive stupidity than inherent evil, but the point of fiction is to imagine that things could be...