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Sure, but I'm trying to find new basic monsters for Theros, and people keep suggesting the equivalent of "Just use evil dwarves and elves", which is not a bad idea, but not exactly what I'm looking for.

The first movie is pretty good, but it's quite distinct from Howard's Conan, in my opinion.

Hey, it's a very good suggestion, but I was looking for a way to expand a little bit on what's already available.

Harpies is a good suggestion. Centaurs and minotaurs can be used, but since they are PC races, in my opinion it's harder to use them in the mook role.

I may be wrong, but it seems to me that the setting is lacking a couple of low-level threats, the equivalent of goblins and orcs. I guess you could use lots and lots of skeletons, as an homage to "Jason and the Argonauts", and you could probably reskin orcs to turn them into smaller cyclops...

Yes, it’s a culture, a common ground, a frame of reference. It’s not a hive mind.

Yes, some individuals will not perceive cultural boundaries. ;)

Yes! That's exactly what I meant! Three salves of applause for you!

True, but it's not just an individual thing, it is a cultural thing. If there's one thing we should all learn from this thread, it is that treating North American culture as if it were some kind of reality by default for everyone leads to all kinds of frictions and problems.

It's not particularly approprate for young children in the United States. In other cultures, it's different. Here, no one would bat an eye.

I think there's room for an official rules light version of D&D. In fact, make that two: one for kids, one for adults.

I'll let the facts speak for themselves, and I won't irritate you any further.

That's cute, but you're not disagreeing with me either. It is obviously hard to tell what's unique about the setting.

What's remarkable is how hard it seems to come up with a good marketing hook that tells us what's unique about the setting. It's cool that it's tied to the origins of D&D, but if it's all there is to it, I can just find an old edition of Greyhawk and an old edition of D&D and start playing. It's...

Yes! Exactly the opposite of that.

The best we could manage was to pick up the bones of dead rats, use them as dice and imagine the numbers. But you know, we were happy in those days, though we were poor.

I think it's fairly easy to come up with a new system for that. A grim and gritty Greyhawk game could have rules about generating a cadre of ready to play characters and how to integrate them seamlessly into the campaign. It could also give tips on how to quickly retool old characters into new...

That's a good question that someone really should have asked earlier.

I think it would probably not be extremely popular, but I guess it could find a niche - people love the Dark Souls video games, after all - whereas the "it’s sword and sorcery but not really" hook is not likely to be a barn-burner.

I think Greyhawk could be shaped into the D&D setting you play on "Nightmare" mode, the one where it’s expected that most PCs will not make it out alive in the Temple of Elemental Evil. The one where you keep rolling new characters to replace the ones who died.