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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Saracenus" data-source="post: 9380979" data-attributes="member: 47839">I am going to remind everyone that WotC has stated that the lore for any setting in 5e is whatever they publish for that edition. However... Previous published materials can and will be used as inspiration but they are not bound by them.Hence Dragonborn, Tieflings, Asimar, Goliaths, and Orcs (all of which are in the 2024 PHB) will exist in products officially published by WotC. We already know that Tieflings exist because they are present in Ghosts of Saltmarsh which is set in the World of Greyhawk. I will also note I have a copy of the officially published 4e Village of Hommlet module and guess what, there was a Dragonborn in it, right in the village staying at the Inn of the Welcome Wench.Your version of the World of Greyhawk can be whatever you want it to be. If you want to enforce the humancentric world that Gygax created in the '81 Folio and expanded upon in the '83 Box Set (which basically added material that was originally published in Dragon Magazine), by all means... your game, your Greyhawk.As a reformed Canonista I will say that I believe that putting the previous published Greyhawk lore ahead of what you and your players create at the table is a straight jacket. Greyhawk was always meant to be what you made of it:From page 12 form the Glossography World of Greyhawk boxed set:[ATTACH=full]368347[/ATTACH]Anything that came before and even the new stuff we are getting with the DMG, well it like Captain Barbosa says...[ATTACH=full]368349[/ATTACH]The new 2024 DMG is going to give us an updated (to modern sensibilities) version of  576 CY World of Greyhawk. They are going to give everyone a taste along with advice on how to make it their own and then WotC is going to turn everyone loose to make Greyahwk whatever they want it to be. If that is not to your taste there are plenty of PDFs/Print On Demand versions of the old material if you don't already own them.</blockquote>

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