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You said it yourself: the job of the DM is to create a world to appeal to the players, not to impose their preferences to the players. Appealing to all in the table requires consensus and compromises on both sides. And I'm going to leave it at that. No point in continuing to argue about this.

There is where you are wrong, because it's not their game. Is the game of their gaming group. That's the thing. All should enjoy the game, not just the DM. So, the banning of elements from the game should be a decision taken by consensus, not by the bias of an specific individual. If that...

While this is true, let's not forget that this is a group game. And both, DMs and players, should enjoy it. Old school DMs often forget that.

Ed Greenwood has said over the years that FR Tyr is not Norse Tyr. But he admitted that it was inspired by the Norse one.

At least you know there are communities of halflings near Saltmarsh. That's more than goliaths and dragonborn have.

It's not wrong per see, it's just not my style. I prefer more open minded settings. Because, there is nothing wrong with players wanting to use races not from among the Tolkien 4, specially if these races are in the PHB.

It says nothing. But, Greyhawk has a lot of resources talking about the old school races, so they don't need info about their place in the setting. The new gen races, on the other hand, need at least one paragraph about their placement in the setting (they did it with the Nentir Vale, there was...

But halflings have a place. Sure, there is not The Shire™, but we know they live in which and which city, and how they get with humans. They are not up in the air for the DM to decide.

Tell that to Generic Greybeard DM with the "gatekeepingisgood" hashtag on Twitter...

A Reddit user got the 2024 DMG and did an AMA about Greyhawk 2024, if people is interested. As I guessed, the book doesn't give places for the new races, meaning they are the purview of DM's fiat. But you called me crazy...

Forgotten Realms already have pizzas, so I don't see their introduction as something weird. https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Pizza

This is something I was wondering, to be honest. Given the focus of the setting on how good is balance and all that, why those damned neutrals haven't created a kingdom of good demigods to oppose Iuz?

I'm just venting here. The truth is that reading these topics is allowing me to learn the other side of old school D&D I hadn't experienced before.

It may be, but it's more common than you think. Just don't go searching Greyhawk in Twitter or Reddit...

Oddly enough, those "curated settings" are usually "just pick from among the Tolkien 4. If you dare to pick anything else, I'm going to bully you for the rest of the game, until either your character is dead or you leave the game."

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...