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The kitchen sink approach existed in D&D since always. That's the Forgotten Realms thing, tho.

Oh, it was brand new by his time. It became old fashioned by the time they began to create all those new, shining settings, tho. I think Gygax designed it to be the sample setting as well, but they later went against that premise when they began to develop it and advanced its storyline, making...

Well, that is thing. The moment they decided to use Greyhawk as the sample setting, it stopped being the D&D setting intended for old-fashioned Gygaxian fantasy, and became a setting for basic D&D (and that includes anything D&D has to offer, at least on a basic level — and with basic, I mean...

Does anything break if they do? While racial segregation is not necessary, being integrated into the lore and having a place in the world is necessary. Stuff that exist in thin air, without any logic but being there because yes, makes no sense to me, but that is a me thing. Isn't that a...

Isn't that the Flanaess? The main ethnic group are called the Flan*, don't they? *which is a funny name if you know Spanish...

Oh, sure. I would have liked if all were tied to the starting region somehow. That would have been ideal, because each option in the PHB would have had an example of how they fit in the setting. Again, this is supposed to be the example setting for the new DM to start homebrewing. But as I...

Well, is better than nothing, I guess. I would have wanted something more like what they did in the 4e DMG with the PHB races, but well... I already have a campaign there. Good setting, if you ask, but the truth is that I'm getting curious about Greyhawk. All this conversation made aware that...

But every race needs a homeland. Even halflings have some unnamed communities near Saltmarsh. That homeland doesn't need to be within the Flanaess necessarily, but they need to say they live somewhere.

Well, that is the issue here. You don't make a setting the "starter setting for DMs" and then try to make it a unique setting were some options of the PHB are banned. You either have an starter setting that allows for the basic PHB options, or you have a unique setting geared towards a certain...

Sure, but I would have preferred "canonical" recognition for the modern D&D species, not some sort of nebulous DMs fiat.

"Dragonborn: No dragonborn are native to Fallcrest, but travelers occasionally pass through and take up work for a time, especially as bodyguards or caravan guards." Dungeon Master's Guide (4e). This is from the Nentir Vale, the setting that was created with the dragonborn already integrated...

The art doesn't confirm anything. You can easily say that the tavern from the picture where you can see a dragonborn and some tieflings alongside Tasha is just a place in Sigil or whatever (someone already used that argument when I show them that picture, that's why I'm using it as an example of...

Or tieflings, or goliaths, or tabaxi. I just use dragonborn as the example because they are the ones who usually get more rejected by old school gamers.

Sorry 😢

At this point, I'm still wondering why they bothered with bringing back Greyhawk in the first place - then, I remember they are just capitalizing in the 50th anniversary thing...

The problem is that neither FR or DL are presented as "sample starting settings". So, FR and DL don't need to include everything from the PHB. They are not starting settings, but settings for specific fantasy tropes. They can deviate from the basics if they want. It's even expected they do that...

Do you have an example of this? Because I haven't seen anyone complaining about how the N*z*s need more representation. Are they?

Greyhawk, the setting where people is ok with modernizing N*z*s so as long these f*** dragonborn don't get included in the setting. EDIT Edited inappropriate language

For the same reason many people were awaiting for them to add the setting to the DM's Guild. There is a certain sense of legitimization when something is officially recognized.

That was not my point. My point was that, if you are selling "isolationist elves" as one of the main highlights of Greyhawk, then there should be something really unique about the isolationist elves of Greyhawk that was not replicated in the other D&D settings. Otherwise, it's not really a...