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How dare you try to prevent 10+ pages of circular argument on this topic?!?

From what I've heard, that was Gary's plan though. He was going to assume that everyone started at 576 CY, with the first folio covering the Flanaess, then he was going to write more about the rest of the world later. Obviously that never came to be, sadly.

But those places need not be large. Halflings and gnomes lack any kingdoms or nation states; they live in small communities scattered throughout other people's lands. The new races can easily be the same.

Unique spells were something from older editions that helped differentiate clerics of different faiths, so I'm all for it.

I'm old school, so when I design dungeons, most hallways are 10ft wide and most rooms are at least 20x30. Think of it this way: if the dungeon is big enough to support large creatures living inside of it, which is a common thing in D&D, then it should be big enough to support a mounted...

If players were really that invested in balance, 4E would have been the most successful edition of all time. Instead, players care about how things feel; they want a lot of variety of experiences. This means that some things are going to be more powerful than others at certain times, because...

I honestly felt this should have been the way to go. Not necessarily forcing two schools into a single subclass, but having mage archetypes instead. The Beguiler was an obvious one, as was the War Mage. I would have just kept the Necromancer and Summoner (Conjurer) based on a single school, as I...

It really depends on the type of game. I use random encounters all the time in 5E. It has a twofold purpose: it encourages the players to not waste time and it drains resources from the party. Of course, standard 5E doesn't do this second part particularly well, since the party can often long...

The biggest question is what is the ultimate goal. If you're looking for a way to hand wave away random encounters, there's better options. If you want to have a mystical desert that drains away memories, I'd have it require the occasional save to take away actual memories the characters have...

I really hate the fact that all elves became tall in 5E. That was a realms specific thing that bled into the core rules.

Depends on your timeline, really, since everywhere has had strife at some time since the Twin Cataclysms. Additionally, banditry and monsters are semi-common, even in "civilized" nations. Major cities are going to have thieves guilds and assassins guilds, so they have their own dangers. If I...

If I had to guess, I would say the majority of games are humanocentric, even if not called out as such. Almost every campaign I've ever played in had humans as the "default" race in the world, even if it was filled with all manner of other races. In addition, it's been rare for a DM feel the...

Nah, that's the Bazaar of the Bizarre

If a monster is immune to a condition, it would be listed in the stat block. Since it is not, then yes you can in fact charm undead.

That was the assumptions of the default multiverse until the 5E Spelljammer book radically changed the way spelljamming worked. Each world was in a crystal sphere, which limited how much you could impact "being on the same plane," but all the worlds were on the same prime material plane...

My biggest issue with this is that IIRC, the 1980 Folio didn't include anything about deities. Given that the deity list has been cut from the PHB, I would hope they at least include the GH one in this chapter.

I think the best way is to assume that the new races simply don't exist in "significant" numbers. There's only 1 elven nation, Celene, plus the demi-human Ulek states, all of which have more humans living in them than demi-humans (according to the original boxed set). I would guess that...

The 1983 World of Greyhawk Boxed Set (not to be confused with the 1980 World of Greyhawk Folio) is probably the best source, as others have stated. It should be based in the same timeline as the DMG. It provides information on a lot of aspects of the world, but it leaves much more open for the...

Honestly, I've never found 2E's adventures to be particularly good. Ravenloft adventures in particular tend to be very railroady, with the players just along for the ride.