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Same. Thought, for me that they aren't in the PHB is more relevant, because people expect that anything in the PHB can be available, while stuff from other sources needs the approval of the DM. Thus, a species not in the PHB doesn't necessarily needs a place to call home. The DMs needs to work...

Honestly, I thought it was part of the idiosyncrasy of the setting, because it's really prevalent in most old school DMs.

Despite being playing D&D since 2008, I'm a complete newcomer to Greyhawk (I'm going to disregard the opinions I got of the setting from my experiences with certain DMs, lol). But is good to know they exist... I guess.

So, they are like flesh golems, but made of wood instead of flesh. It's not so hard. Plus, with all the war tensions in Greyhawk, automatons created as soldiers for potential war is something I see that could happen and is within the logic of the setting. I'm not saying that there should be...

I don't see a difference between golems and warforged, save that the warforged is sentient, but there are sentient magic items in Greyhawk too.

I don't know why, but I can take a guess. They may have thought that grouping them into similarly themed groups was more intuitive (physical stats followed by mental ones).

Oh, I can be very unreasonable, sir. However, this specific conversation is old (as old as 4e, in my experience, but I know is older than that for many people), so I've learned to understand why people want to preserve the original flavor of their favorite setting, while also knowning settings...

Sorry I forgot to answer your quote. And yes, people like what they like, and that is ok. However, Greyhawk is supposed to be something intended for everyone, and that includes people with different tastes than ours. And Greyhawk needs to accommodate for all of these tastes. So, while it...

I don't think that is how canon works in D&D. Ed Greenwood also sold his Forgotten Realms to TSR, and and TSR added stuff Ed Greenwood didn't approve of, like adding real life Earth analogues to the setting, like Maztica and Kara-Tur. Even when Ed Greenwood has said multiple times that these...

While I agree, we have also to take into consideration that this map is so old that many people consider it true. A great majority of the people who are going to explore beyond the Flanaess are going to use that map (or the one in Chainmail) as their template.

But Thaco is bad! He kicks puppies and steal candies from babies, and... Ah, sorry. You mean the other Thac0.

Actually... Most persons who love to play dragonborn are gay people in real life. In fact, the most popular dragonborn character in the D&D novels is a gay character (Mehen, from the Brimstone Angels novels). So, yes, there is a certain correlation.

Ok, guys. We have found Agent Smith.

You say that. I say justice for Gnomeregan! (The Shire is also there, if someone cares for hob... flings— halflings, ejem).

Kinda off topic, but related since I may be interested in publishing some stuff. Is there any tutorial to how to make stuff for DMs Guild?

The problem is that in Greyhawk, people doesn't want to talk with the special guy. They want to kill him because "he is different".

You are lucky enough to have not encountered those people on the gaming spaces you frequent.

I think the paradigm of fantasy world design has changed. Fantasy has been evolving a lot in 50 years, after all. Young gamers today want multicultural elements, based mostly on Isekai-type anime and video games like Final Fantasy, and that is perfectly fine —as it is fine to prefer less...

There is nothing wrong when you do that for your games, that is right. It becomes wrong when you try to impose that idea on others, however.

For what I have read in this very topic, the setting would be ruined for many people even if they add new stuff instead of replacing old elements. The problem seems to be the addition of new elements that deviate from the Tolkienesque tradition, regardless of how WotC does it. People won't have...