D&D 5E Bigby Doesn't Call His Homeworld Oerth :)

[Dragonhelm]

Interesting thing I saw in the new giants book in chapter 2. Bigby doesn't refer to his homeworld as "Oerth." He refers to it as "Greyhawk."

I can only assume that he knows he's in a roleplaying game.

 

[TerraDave]

There is precedent...

 

[TerraDave]

Also, elemental evil and giants arguably pre-dates ToEE (at least in game terms).

 

[cbwjm]

Interesting thing I saw in the new giants book in chapter 2. Bigby doesn't refer to his homeworld as "Oerth." He refers to it as "Greyhawk."

I can only assume that he knows he's in a roleplaying game.

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Maybe the City of Greyhawk is his world.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

There is precedent...

That's the name of the book, but it's not in character, it's a bit of a screw up for a character to call the world Greyhawk.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

That's the name of the book, but it's not in character, it's a bit of a screw up for a character to call the world Greyhawk.

It's fine, Bigby, a planar traveller, simply refers to it by the name it is commonly known by, not by it's formally correct name.

I don't tell people "I am from The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland".

 

[Zardnaar]

It's fine, Bigby, a planar traveller, simply refers to it by the name it is commonly known by, not by it's formally correct name.

I don't tell people "I am from The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland".

Tbf neither would I if I lived there.

 

[MarkB]

It's fine, Bigby, a planar traveller, simply refers to it by the name it is commonly known by, not by it's formally correct name.

I don't tell people "I am from The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland".

Yeah, and Greyhawk is at least somewhat familiar to many players. If he'd used the proper name, most people wouldn't have known what on Oerth he was talking about.

 

[Nikosandros]

Yeah, and Greyhawk is at least somewhat familiar to many players. If he'd used the proper name, most people wouldn't have known what on Oerth he was talking about.

This. If we need an in-world explanation, we can assume it's a short-hand for "the world where you can find the multiverse-wide famous Free city of Greyhawk".

 

[R_J_K75]

I bet if you read a bit further, he'll tell you Ettins are super intellects comparable to Doctor Doom