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I originally posted this in the "Lore isn't rules" thread, but by that time the participants were having much too much fun with their argument in progress (which, pretty please, let's not continue here) to give it much notice - but I'm still curious about it, so maybe it's worth a thread of its...

To expand a bit on my previous: Many fans who engage immersively with complex, long-running fandoms have a difficult time understanding that the things they find rewarding - complexity, long histories, the connections that can only be made throught deep immersion - are offputting to folks who...

Your "annoying" is my "a great relief." I find it, indeed, enormously refreshing that the official stance on Realmslore canon for this edition is, "Don't worry about it, unless of course worrying about it is your kink." It may be a letdown to find out they're not going to specifically cater to...

Nor I, and my material at least is slanted pretty heavily toward the "serious" end. As is the official adventure content we've seen thus far, save for maybe the occasional callback to the funhouse dungeons of yore. And yet, someone who had not actually viewed it would be forgiven for concluding...

Good for you, sweetie. Have a cookie.

Most welcome! Honestly, I'm happy for the chance to promulgate Dyson's work; he's one of the half-hidden gems of our hobby.

Which, it hardly needs pointing out (tho obvs I'm gonna do it anyway) that that's a very strange hill to die on, considering that 1) in-jokes and puckish fourth-wall-breaking have been part of this game's traditions from the get-go; and 2) you can go on the YouTubes and watch hours and hours of...

I addition to his (wonderful) blank maps of all sizes, Dyson Logos has a handful of stocked dungeon adventures available for download on his site, lots of which are one-pagers of around 10 rooms or less. Check out the ones here, here, here, here, and here. (None of those are explicitly statted...

So here's an intriguing question I've been mulling on, based on some of the conversation here and in the Other Thread. And partially it's intriguing to me because it doesn't have a right answer; there is inherently no "official" way to verify or disprove it. The 5e PHB has this in its...

As they say, I don't know if that's a true story, but there's a lot of truth in it. Meanwhile, I suspect the D&D team's response, if they had one, to what you rightly call the "hyperbolic nonsense" that sometimes flourishes in a venue like this would be, "We are prepared to give your concerns...

I'm not seeing the same attitude you are - which is not, I hasten to add, an assertion that it doesn't exist. It sucks that it's been making your experiences less fun. It's kind of a tricky needle to thread, I'm sure, because actual bonafide munchkinism is a legitimate problem, and one of the...

... ... ... Really, I just wanted to hold this up and admire it for a moment in its dazzling perfection.

You can make your own call about what this says about me, but honestly? Even in your analogy, I can't imagine bringing myself to care what he calls it. It just doesn't seem that important to me. Frankly, I'd be too fascinated by his act of syncretism to be bothered. The differences between the...

The thing I'm often curious about is, "What is it that you hope will happen because you posted this?" I have to sort of assume a poster like that doesn't really expect that Wizards will offer an apology for screwing things up, or change their direction because of Stuff That One Dude On The...

Okay, Maxperson, babe, dude. Take a breath. It's not the strawman you think it is; I think you're missing something. When you keep saying, over and over, "it's just not the setting," that is what I'm pointing to. No, you're not telling anyone they can't make changes or create the game they...

Okay, so: 1) So what? 2) Have you at any point asked him what he feels is the heart of Greyhawk, rather than tell him he's Doin It Rong? 3) Because if it were me, I wouldn't give a fig how "right" you are, by what standard of objectivity you measure it, or how thoroughly you debate your point...

Your sense of goodwill is commendable, and in general I agree that negativity is not such a good thing. OTOH, I also think it's okay to indulge in some more-or-less good-natured skewering of the type of posts that are the target here (and would argue that it's the content, not the poster...

So I have to ask - and forgive me if I missed this somewhere in the larger conversation - are you purely white-room theorycrafting here, or is this in response to actual-play difficulties you've had to deal with? Because some of the heightened emotion that's come up in this discussion has made...