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As I've said before, I just use dragonborn as an example because that's the species that old skool DMs typically hate for reasons I don't really understand. But I can change to catgirl or shadowman and it would hardly made a difference. Sure, there is the Forgotten Realms, where these races...

This would have been the ideal. And why I was not enthusiastical with the return of Greyhawk. After all, Greyhawk has a legacy and an established fanbase, and trying to deviate from it is going to make some people angry (I know it, I'm angry about Dragon Age right now). But, on the other hand...

Well, I don't see a problem with having Tolkienian species in the game. They have become staple of fantasy after all (or at least, the dwarf-elf-human trio). My only problem is trying to make them the exclusive species you must play. I'm accustomed to the really diverse world of Warcraft, after...

According to what I've read at Havard's website, he was still alive when they wrote that book, and he approved the idea. In fact, he wrote a manuscript with ideas for what would have been a whole line of 4e products based on Blackmoor (similar to the d20 line) that got cancelled after he passed...

It's not irreconcilable, either. She may want to spy on someone, or keep the cult from entering her lands. Isolationism doesn't mean she is going to leave her lands be destroyed by these smurfing elemental lovers. That this ends up benefiting other kingdoms is just an unintended side-effect that...

I just have the 4e book (that it has the same lore from the 3e book, but updated with 4e species), but the 3e/d20 line is regarded as very good. There is also the living adventures for the d20 line, that you can get in Havard's Blackmoor/Mystara website.

To be honest, the changes don't mean anything to me because I'm a newcomer to Greyhawk, so I don't have any attachments to the old materials. That said, I don't see the new stuff as irreconcilable with the old lore as the author of that article says. For instance, nothing in the DMG contradicts...

You forgot to mention how continuity breaking was that they gender swapped some of the rulers, while showing (quote) "[...]women can also be autocrats and oligarchs profiting from the exploitation of the peasant classes." Nothing against the author, really. That's his opinion, and you like what...

Not necessarily. The earthmotes in Neverwinter were caused by the Spellplague, and they are still there. It's good to assume that not all earthmotes fell, or that they are backtracking from their decision at the time. After all, a lot of new players liked the concept of "floating islands in the...

There is also the fact that in the Nentir Vale, the gods that make up the current pantheon are the survivors of the Dawn War, and so they all have combat abilities and such. The "weak" gods (as in, combat weak) didn't survived the Dawn War. We have explicit mentions of such instances, like the...

He considers gender-equality as a "continuity break", while saying that is a bad thing the female rulers can also be villains, while also saying that making all female rulers good would be "ill-suited" for the game (so, basically implying that having female rulers is bad, no matter from which...

The Feywild has always been a Parallel Dimension since 4e. I don't see anything wrong with that, really.

I almost dropped it when the author began to complain about the inclusion of female rulers. Like, really? In this day an age someone is complaining about that?

I've already read that article, and it can be summed up to "all new is bad, all old is good and the only true way to play Greyhawk. And they ruined the setting when they added smurfing dragonborn to it."

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I see. I assumed the same.

Nope, not always, as Ed Greenwood has stated many times that Kara-Tur was never part of his original version of the Realms. Kara-Tur was grafted to the Realms by some TSR staffer.

Without reading the whole topic (that I'm going to do in the meantime), so I don't know if the answer has already being given, but yes, Greyhawk exist(ed) in 4e. It is considered to be an "alternative world" to the Nentir Vale's world, from where some places and some NPCs came from. For...

I haven't reached that part yet. Care to point a link? I want to skip the "it's humanocentric/xenophobic and that is good" part.

Kinda necroing, but the damage is obvious. They added dragonborn to the setting, the audacity!