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I suspect because WotC was already planning 4th edition at that stage and knew they would soon yank the magazine license. Pity, as an adventure path it is miles above anything WoTC has produced in recent history. (just look at Vecna: Eve of Ruin)

Tomb of Horrors is actually referenced in a miniquest near one of the final adventures in Age of Worms. Tenser can teleport the party there, right to where the demon face is so they can recover the sphere of annihilation from it. It would be fairly simple to turn this into a full run through the...

It certainly references the Shacked City adventure path, and a few other Dungeon Greyhawk adventures, but they aren't terribly relevant to the actual plot. Tenser, for his part, is post-Circle of Eight post-Return of the Eight, Tenser.

Age of Worms specifically says he was resurrected (the assumption is he was killed in Against the Giants)

Also, Diamond Lake and it’s mayor appear in Doomgrinder, a 2E module. Braazemal the Burning, from Against the Giants, appears in Age of Worms.

A Greyhawk module that ties in directly to Age of Worms but is a later one, is Expedition to the Ruins of Greyhawk. A few of the Greyhawk NPCs make a return appearance (Tirra, Loris Raknian, Khellek).

I suspect you already know the answer. On the other hand there's no consistency with this, and I was reliably informed that changing hobgoblin to "fey" is better because it's "more in keeping with their mythological origins", despite being disconnected to their history and use in D&D. People...

The Monstrous Manual came out in 93, and 2nd edition was in 89, so of the 10+ year life of AD&D it spent longer as "the" manual. Regardless of when it was it is still the superior collection across all editions.

You got a different one to the one I did with a statblock and some dot points?

Ok, put the sentence "Greyhawk is a D&D setting" in the DMG and open it up on DMsGuild.

Remember when Monster Manuals were interesting to read and full of ideas.

For WoTC to engage with any of that level of thinking, they'd actually have to understand it to begin with, which they are not particularly interested in. Have a look at the way that Ravenloft was hacked around with to suit today's online mores, with scant regard to the underlying themes and...

Having wildly different origin stories hasn't stopped Wizards of the Coast from gracelessly mushing together the "multiversal origins" of a whole bunch of other creatures from elves to goblinoids so I don't know why you'd expect them to exercise any restraint with gnolls.

The answer would of course be to make all of the six abilities scores relevant to your character, no matter their class, but D&D is rather reluctant to do this. It would solve the "dump stat" issue and the plethora of weak and stupid 5E characters. (Another option would be to build in both an...

Exactly. Once they were taken from the race they should have been removed entirely. It's just become a weird "and now some extra points for me".

Apparently "strong" is "max strength score of 20". Those poor weak gnomes with 18 Strength.

I know you're joking, but inflation is one of the few things mostly not a huge issue in medieval times unless the monarch started to debase coinage. There wasn't a regular 2-5% "accepted" level or anything.

Hmmm hobgoblins are fey because @thats getting back to their “roots” but not elves because “they are from Tolkien”. ? This is incoherent as a justification. Hobgoblins in D&D are unambiguously from Tolkien people! It’s why D&D preserves the etymological mistake of having them be bigger goblins...

Just an FYI, since author's rights and publishing rights (aka "copyright") emerged around the time of the early 18th century, almost all the examples you have here were produced under some form of copyright regime. It's also very clear that many of those authors motivation was making money...