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uh...well for level up...no, but actually yes. kind of. almost. ish. level up makes references to the worlds of to save a kingdom, war...

Yeah, Gygax often ignored his own rules.

It was the rules. Gary would have disallowed it because he didn’t like non-human PCs. He wasn’t much interested in world building and...

Hommlet. One in 10000 huh?

I personally would not call it a WotC setting though. It's also not exactly a "5e" setting in its worldbuilding, because that...

To the best of my knowledge, there's only one such adventure--and it's actually set in Tymanther, meaning, the only major dragonborn...

Again, Exandria does this, especially Wildemount. It’s why I think it’s the most “5e” of extant WOTC published stuff.

Really, I think this says it all right here. The problem with so many of the earlier settings is that 5 has added a LOT of options on...

It’s a setting in a very vague sense of the word, but it’s probably more accurately described as a meta-setting, or like, a setting...

So every edition you throw out all the lore and start fresh? That's IP suicide! I understand you hate D&D, but you're asking an...

It’s not irrelevant. There was no real reason given in the lore of the settings for why demihumans had these limitations. It was simply...

When Greyhawk was designed, there was no cavalier or barbarian classes. Thus adding them to Greyhawk required a change of design intent...

It does beg the question: did Greyhawk not have dwarven wizards because that was an intrinsic part of the setting or was it because that...

But what is a setting supposed to say about the existence of dwarf wizards when the original pretense of there NOT being dwarf wizards...

I wouldn't want Wizard's to do it, but a setting based on min-maxer absurdities like every Monk being a sailor might be fun. 🤓