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Yup. They are. One of the PC's has ties to the Cassalantar family in Waterdeep. Another is tied to the Gralhund family. One PC has already met others of his species and it has been a strong element in the campaign. Why is it so hard to believe that I will leverage actual official lore...

Again, to be absolutely clear, not a single person is arguing that any of this NEEDS to be true. What we want is that it CAN be true. I mean, sure, you can certainly do the "meet at the inn" campaign. But, for me, I haven't done that in a very long time. My last three campaigns and my...

That's .... not true at all. Phandelver - you can certainly be FROM Phandelver or any of the nearby towns or Neverwinter if you chose. Entire campaign from 1st to 15th level never moves more than a week from the starting point. Waterdeep Dragon-Heist - Entire campaign takes place within...

Having played online for a long time, yeah, it's not unreasonable. I used to be a "hey, you want to play? Come on in?" kind of host. I got burned so many times that now, I am very particular about who I game with. I am far more likely to walk away from a group than I was, for sure. And...

And that's FANTASTIC. For you. I want the option. I want the choice. Why is that such a huge ask?

That's very much not true. I suggest you head over to Canonfire! Canonfire! if you think that's true. There are literally thousands of pages of material for Greyhawk. Oerth Journal is up to issue 36 currently, at about a hundred (ish) pages per issue. There is a TON of material for...

That's not exactly the slam dunk you think it is. Gnomes and halflings are the least popular species in the game, at least as far as we know. It's been argued in this thread that either could be dropped from the game or rolled up into other species for exactly this reason. If I play an elf...

But, again, that's the point. People are complaining about "Humans in funny suits". But, if I make a "sport" that has no community, no culture, no history, how am I not just a funny looking human? You can't have characters with deep history and connection to the setting without actually...

I think your first point is spot on. Not being too precious about "respecting canon". I mean, in this thread there's been repeated points about tieflings not being a "species" in the sense that they have tiefling families and such. But, that ignores things like Baldur's Gate 3 where tieflings...

Just to add to this. Any later element, particularly 2024 D&D elements you add to Greyhawk typically don't have enough depth in the setting because you've got forty or fifty years of the setting already. It's a very thin veneer to add, say, Warlocks to Greyhawk since none of the NPC's in the...

Actually, I've done the rotating DM thing and it can be a ton of fun. Very episodic, of course, but, still a ton of fun. TBH, that's how I started. The four or five of us that were learning to play all took turns running games. It was years before I'd actually met a group that had a...

Attention spans of mildly concussed gerbils? :D

Can I move to where you live? Pretty please? :p

Like I said, this is certainly my experience. If the DM says, "Let's do X", without fail, players will want to be the "exception to X". And the worst part is, it's inconsistent. I gave up on trying to really deep dive into setting. It just wasn't worth the squeeze. So, I ran a Spelljammer...

Now this I totally agree with. It's 100% not done out of malice. I'm very sure that most of the players that I've dealt with over the years wouldn't dream of doing this out of spite. I think largely what happens is that players often get a concept in their head that they want to play. The DM...

While I don't think it's limited to online play, I do think you have a strong point here. I wonder if the difference isn't online/offline, but rather, playing with friends/playing with strangers?

And, just as a point, here's a thread from 2006, talking about exactly this: https://www.enworld.org/threads/grounding-players-in-a-setting.172483/

I'm really not following how right or wrong enters into this? We're talking about play preferences. Are you saying my play preferences are wrong? And, in case anyone thinks I'm ragging on my current crop of players, that's very much not true. I remember back in the early 2000's, running a...

Heh. The flaming sphere thing is actually pretty easy because it's not a monster. Which is why I adore the new 2024 summoning spells. SOOOO much easier to run. But, that's the point. You're coming in at the tail end of all of this. Phandelver, other than "please be something from Forgotten...

One guy? What's that like? Me? I've spent years with experiences far closer to @DammitVictor than not. From the player in a high concept, post-humanist SF game who wants to play an Amish luddite in the group of high tech robot people, bioengineered spacers and the like, to players who, as a...