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I would say each Star Wars TTRPG was a different presentation of the same setting. Ditto with 1e/2e/3e/5e FR*. In each case, the official setting is intended to be part of the same continuity. I haven't read Adventures in the Multiverse yet, so I don't know if that same logic applies to 2e vs...

Counterpoint: There are three different Star Wars TTRPGs, and they all take place in the same setting.

I've never really followed Greyhawk, but based on your description, it sounds like a perfect framework for creating a diverse setting written by a diverse group of authors. The way you describe it, it sounds like Gygax created a world with both European and non-European influences, then left all...

I'm pretty sure it's a matter of product branding, not a matter of pride. The suits don't want creativity and innovation interfering with their marketing objectives.

I'm surprised you're the first person to mention inflation. I know I can't afford as many books as I'd like these days.

While doing research for a project I'm working on, I discovered every deity in the Mulhorandi pantheon has both an Egyptian name and one or more "Theros-ized" (a.k.a. invented) names. So they literally could just drop the Egyptian names and still exist, as written, no retcon required. (Although...

Since one of the stated goals of the 2024 DMG is to teach new DMs how to run the game, I would say, yes, designers really should spend time and page count on a few examples of both gamist and simulationist approaches to the same problem.

I really hope the designers find enough room in the DMG to include both an expanded version of the (gold-based) Stronghold rules from the 2014 DMG and an expanded version of the (abstract-currency) Bastion rules from UA. Then tables could pick whichever of the two rules modules works best for...

I think even the weeds got left behind at least 10 pages ago.

Those would be great names for the as-yet-unreleased Franchise rules. I can't wait to add 5th-level Musso and Frank branding to the Franchise Location I've been building in the background for four levels now. But if we're going to pretend we can only use proper nouns because no other...

I'm saying a credit card company shouldn't be allowed to trademark "Credit Card" as the name of their credit card with rewards. Their credit card with rewards should have a distinctive name that isn't just "Credit Card" (though it could certainly include the words "credit card" as part of its...

Of course my reaction to what I read is on me. Every reader's reaction to what they read is on them. I'm intentionally using rules terminology copied-and-pasted from the UA, verbatim, to demonstrate how misleading that terminology is when used in a sentence. The fact that we're ten pages into...

You beat me to the punch while I was typing my last message. Yes. Renaming the special facilities is all it would take to address the concerns I was raising in the OP.

Thank you for making my point for me. Buildings called stables (lower-case s) and pubs (lower-case s) can be purchased with gold. Special facilities called Stables (capital S) and Pubs (capital P) explicitly can't be purchased with gold, per the UA. That language is the problem I was calling...

That's literally the complaint I made in the concluding sentence of the OP. You just quoted it for me: "Stables and Pubs shouldn't be de facto magic items which exist outside the gold-piece economy." As in, "Things named for everyday objects [Stables and Pubs] shouldn't be priceless...

I can't speak for the whole thread, but my OP is based on a willful refusal to accept naming conventions that are divorced from reality (including both real-world and in-game reality). I stand by my opinion that priceless, level-gated special facilities shouldn't share names with generic...

Good to know. Having never ridden a horse, I've always just hand-waved it as "special saddle" and called it good. Knowing how involved it is, I'll probably just stick to stretchers, sleds, and wheeled conveyances when devising in-game contingency plans. I'll reserve the special saddles for folks...

I'm inclined to agree. The syncretic nature of the English language seems to me like one of its fundamental features. As in, take that away, and you're erasing large swaths of English-language culture.

Well, if evil orcs were the only ones wearing turbans, it could certainly be perceived as offensive. But if plenty of other people are also wearing turbans, I see no reason why an evil orc couldn't also wear one.

The English language word "shaman" is certainly derived from a word used in Siberia, but as far as I can tell, that word is "samān," not "shaman," and it might or might not be indigenous to the area. It could also be a loanword from Pali, as spoken by early Bhuddist missionaries in Central Asia.