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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...

I can't help but to wonder. When the fans of the setting are so reticent to add modern elements to the setting, the problem may as well be the setting itself.

According to what James Wyatt said in one of the Dragon articles with the "behind the scenes" info, they originally wanted to use Hextor as the god of war (they had reservations over using FR gods due to many reasons). However, given that Hextor makes little sense without Heironeus, and they...

Asmodeus is your classic Asmodeus from 1e. He is as Greyhawk as Bahamut. He got promoted to be a major god in the Realms in novels, but he didn't originated there. Zehir is a renamed Set (but more of a Conan's Set than Egyptian Set, given all the snakey imagery). Again, he was added to the...

Actually, Avandra is a renamed Tyche. While Erathis is a renamed Athena. The only Forgotten Realms deity in the setting is Bane, and as any FR fan love to point out, this version of Bane is different enough from the Realms one to be is own thing (he seems to be more of a renamed Ares).