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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AdmundfortGeographer" data-source="post: 9499183" data-attributes="member: 4682">I just picked up the 2024 DMG last night. I’m in agreement with Stuart. There is a lot of interesting choices I could find myself thinking I might not have made that call, but I’m glad they thought of it. Such as the number of rulers who are explicitly listed as dragons under the guise of a human or elf. Making the leader of the Knight of Holy Shielding a Dragonborn was inspired and I can get behind.However, making Drax an orc I can’t go with. There were enough opportunities to mention an orc leader somewhere (Bone March of Pomarj?). Have Drax be a tiefling as that would firm up the discussed devil ties of the Great Kingdom.I thought it was weird to allude to Korenth Zan as allegedly a red dragon consort of Tiamat (shoehorning in the chromatic dragon metaplot?) when there has been the rumor in canon that there is a faction in the  SB with Tharizdun ties, and Elemental Evil is already on the the three “Greyhawk Conflicts” listed on the page earlier.I can’t figure out why they changed the history since it couldn’t be done for space reasons. Which apocalypse shot first was reversed, and the independence of the western Aerdy lands were off.Still, there is a lot I like. I feel it suffers from a page count restriction and fitting both a starting local region, plus a continent-worth of geography. It took most of the 80 folio, and trimmed out even more then brought in some stuff for a starter region around the City of Greyhawk. I came for the continent-wide material and it was edited down far more than I anticipated. For instance the coverage of the various hills, forests, mountains, swamps get almost nothing except a handful around the Sheldomar valley. I like the local region around Greyhawk City material here, which the 80 folio was bare bones about. This is a fine intro for someone who want an example setting to mimic when building their own setting, and I does that quite well.</blockquote>

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