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Message: <blockquote data-quote="bogmad" data-source="post: 6164876" data-attributes="member: 6695559">Thing is, I don't think anyone is disputing this.  DL goblins may have different clothes and do a little body modification on themselves, but they're still variations on the base form.  Dark Sun dwarves aren't even totally distinct from FR dwarves, they're just what happens to your base dwarf after a magic apocalypse and years of "evolution"Having a standard and variations on it doesn't seem antithetical to D&D. Having totally separate worlds and completely unrelated versions of monsters was never a guiding principle with previous editions of D&D; different interpretations came about because designers and artists were making it as they went along.  The brand's been around long enough now that all that creativity has created a default identity that it seems WotC is trying to get a grasp of, yes, for business and marketing reasons partly. It's a task I don't envy</blockquote>