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The "straw man" in this case is a representation of the flaws in your analogy in this post. If it is a straw man, then that means your own argument is invalid for using that straw man to try to prove your own point. And those tables are playing with their own homebrew systems and likely never...

If you knew the context, why did you reply to speak on ignoring and not take into consideration that replacement was part of the context? I am not understanding that.

If he replies, tell him I want him to get his ghostly butt to WotC HQ and start writing new setting books for them.

And in all fairness, you're taking what both of us said massively out of context. The discussion between him and I started when he made a comment about game mechanics being modified by a later release to cause problems for a player, then equating lore to having the same issue. I pointed out...

Not really. Rewriting mechanics requires playtesting for balance, errata for when inevitable problems crop up, teaching people the new rules, having to peruse every release for ways to adapt them to the new mechanics, etc. Rewriting lore is as simple as "Drow are actually jungle elves who are...

Unless Ouija boards have started to actually work, Gary Gygax doesn't have anything to say about DnD. He's dead.

How about a gladiator arena where the announcer is a beholder and, between contests, the crowd is entertained by giants juggling and making balloon animals out of magically-enslaved beholders?

One other reason why gladiators wouldn't have anything other than spears, even in real life, is that gladiators did not actually fight in life-or-death matches most of the time. They were the Roman equivalent of sports champions. Their equipment loads were designed primarily for show, not...

I want CS books for all of those, FR, and a modern setting. Not the Ultramodern book put out by a third party and not d20 Modern, but a modern setting where elves and dwarves and such were there and known from the start. I mean, I liked d20 Modern, but... these days, if I want that style of...

Except that "elf" has mechanics attached to it, thus making it both lore and mechanics. "Drow being the ancestors of modern elves" is just lore, with no mechanics attached to it. You can't ignore the Eladrin being elves without running into a lot of mechanics problems, but you can ignore the...

Like 3.0 DnD, 3.5 DnD, or Pathfinder can be with certain combinations involving a lot of splats? Or GURPS when doing anything outside of chargen (and, depending on setting, including chargen)?

That's a round tuit. Any time your players say "When I get around to it," hand them this thing.

Ignoring a new mechanic is difficult because any products you buy after it comes out are likely to take that new mechanic into consideration. But if in your campaign world gnolls are a civilized race, it doesn't matter that in another campaign world they're demon spawn. It's like... How it is...

Both Star Trek and X-Men have done continuity reboots and manage to remain popular as movie franchises. There's also been a number of TV shows that have retcons in mid-show without any complaints. Pretty much all of the Marvel movies have heavily rewritten the canon of their comics. Battlestar...

Honestly? It would be easier to just link them to the TV Tropes website, as pretty much everything on that site shows up in RPGs.

* The Innocent Victim is the leader of the gang who "kidnapped" her. * The Innocent Victim is a succubus. The quest giver knew this, but didn't tell the heroes because she's trying to become good and the quest giver didn't want her killed by the party. * The Ancient Treasure the party is sent...

This I agree with. My group uses it for such. And I found it doesn't lose people as easily as, say, reading the 1500 Pathfinder setting books does.

Every one of these articles is another reason to buy N.E.W. that people should consider.

I will admit it is fun to take an established setting and add your own twist. Sometimes, players really like it. Overall, I'm about fun. Will I enjoy it? Changing the setting to keep the campaign fun and interesting isn't something I have a problem with. It can even take problematic areas of a...

I wouldn't mind a campaign guide. Perhaps one for each campaign, that covers a lot about the setting, and then just leave it up to the individual groups to flesh it out beyond there?