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That's free advertising, I think. The book became known to many. I think, this is what the marketing department wanted, even if it didn't get actual results they were aiming for.

Sure. Inventing flaws is a bad thing, the people doing that is consciously damaging someone's reputation. But one thing is inventing flaws, and another is exposing said flaws. The thing is that we still need to know what happened, even if it was an ugly thing we rather prefer it hadn't...

After reading the whole topic, I can say that we can admire the person, Gary Gygax, while admitting he was flawed. And I think that trying to hide or negate his flaws is a great disservice to him, because we get an idolized version of him instead of the real Gary Gygax. And I prefer the real...

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Can you elaborate?

Oh, I don't want to derail the topic again with something about the clash between new and old school D&D. Just suffice to say I find some choice of words quite telling. But, again, my opinion about this is highly colored by bad experiences, so I may be imagining things.

In the Dawn War pantheon? All Exarchs are ascended mortals that attained "exarchhood" after the war (the exception being the Dwarven Pantheon, as they attained exarchhood during the Dawn War") . There are no proper gods (as in, the original gods that coalesced out of the Astral Sea) of...

Call me conspiranoid (?), but the choice of words in that guide is... Interesting, to say the less.

Well, finished your post. I just want to say that I don't think it is fair to say 5e took away the "weird" out of D&D. This is something that was there before 5e was a thing. It was there even before 4e was a thing. I remember how mad the people in my gaming circle were when I proposed to add...

I'm sorry I get to notice the tangential details of the post, but... They named a group of evil elves "the Pharisee"? Really?

Yeah, I think gnomes will be more fit with being "bobos", lol

Yes, I think is part of the issue. Verbobonc is an exception because "bobo" has meaning in Spanish: translates as "dumb". In fact, Verbobonc almost sounds as "ver bobos" ("look at dumb [people]") in Spanish. That's is why is an immersion breaking name, lol.

Don't worry, is ok. Spanish is my native language.

Geoff makes more sense to me than Verbobonc. But that's perhaps English is not my native language, and Geoff can pass as sn European-like name.

Just 3 things by now. And two are not the fault of the setting per se, but more about the fans. The names, tho, that is how the setting was built.

Good thing this is a name that can be translated to my language and makes sense, lol

I was pronouncing it "Orth" all this time... Now, you broke my bubble..

I'm going to say it. I cannot take the setting seriously with all the funny sounding names. I roll my eyes every time I read Verbobonc...

I'm also over this as well. I'm grateful with those who indulged me, lol. Now, I have the 2024 info, Living Greyhawk Gazetter and the 1983 World of Greyhawk book. Do I need something more, or this is enough to have "the basics"

You almost made me imagine some ancient desserts scattered in the desert...