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You thinking of Blackmoor? That's a very common fantasy trope. It's in Conan and Lord of the Rings for a start!

Biased poll is biased. Unintentionally no doubt, designing a fair poll is hard. It's one of the things I've taught on occasion (it's on the GCSE Maths syllabus). It's clear that the OP believes that there should have been a radical 6e and worded all the responses so that they would all reflect...

Talking of which, did you ever see the 1950s British TV Robin Hood?

Which don’t seem to differ in any significant way to someone from the UK. Gygax and co from Wisconsin - yeah, you can see some religion based cultural assumptions. But Canadian looks pretty much indistinguishable from British.

The is a non-evil Red Wizard party member in Masks of the Betrayer.

Cane sugar is rather less harmful than corn syrup.

It's inspired by Lankhmar, but its a lot more London. Pratchett's time playing D&D was before the Greyhawk setting was released, so not really that. It's "culture" is generic. It has no specific cultural details.

I’ve been through every edition of D&D, and 5e, although not perfect, is by far the best. I wouldn’t consider it worth checking out a significantly different version. Especially since I’m bored with D&D’s generic fantasy, and long for other genres in my role play. It’s only liking the ruleset...

I've used Exandria stuff without being a fan of Critical Role, and I will support what most of the others are saying. It's just a well designed high quality generic D&D setting. I ran the Call of the Netherdeep campaign. As an adventure, it's not very good, but as a supplemental setting book it...

All major ports are diverse - with the diversity increasing the longer the port has existed. Shakespeare wrote two plays about diversity 370 years before Ed Greenwood, and set them in Venice. The Sword Coast ports are oceanic. The Moonsea ports are Great Lake ports. London, as part of a nation...

Where is the “no” option?

Whilst that was the problem with Halo, I don’t Warcraft go far enough for that to matter. It was the more-fake-than-children’s-toys weapons and shields that killed any suspension of disbelief before it got to the point where the plot mattered.

Neverwinter is warmer than it's latitude suggests, due to the weird effect of a nearby volcano. So it's warmer than Stockholm. Lubeck was the largest city in the Hanseatic league, and thus might be the closest equivalent to Waterdeep, although a lot of the art I've seen seems more suggestive of...

Waterdeep seems more like Venice to me (without the waterways). What about Waterdeep specifically says Toronto? I mean, other than things that you would expect to find in any major port city.

Toronto was established in 1793, which means a) it has nothing medieval, and b) it has nothing more than 232 years old - the Sword Coast cities all have much longer histories. Ed is Canadian, but I don't think he really used his local cities as primary inspiration.

A bard is basically a lawyer with more syncopation.

Yeah, there was a pretty well known incident on the Babylon 5 forums where someone posted an idea hat lead to an episode that was in production being scrapped. It was revived in a later season after they to an agreement with the person who posted the idea, who was honest and had no intention of...

Yup, Mangeniello is never going to be able to get the funding, especially given how expensive the draconians would be. We will see a Del Toro Mountains of Madness first. It's all an auteur's pipe dream. This one certainly suffered by trying to make a live action film look like a deliberately...

Yeah, one of the things I would credit Dragonlance for is pretty much creating YA as a marketable genre.

House of Lament (VGR) took my group two 3 hour sessions. I don't think they were particularly impressed by it though, finding the spirit board corny and the frights unfrightening. I'm currently running the Death House redux from Vecna Eve of Ruin. So far I rate it an improvement on the CoS...