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<blockquote data-quote="Mercurius" data-source="post: 8031826" data-attributes="member: 59082">Good question. Short answer: haven't thought that deeply into it. I had the initial idea brewing over the last week, and fleshed it out as I wrote the OP.My sense is not that different than now, but more general. Perhaps each race (and sub-race) would have a general description and then a sub-heading &quot;Elves in D&amp;D Worlds&quot; that gives just general indicators, with full write-ups (e.g. Faerunian Gold Elves) in the setting books. Or something like that. The idea would be to direct players to specific worlds, and/or encourage DMs to design their own variants.The key, I think, is de-tangling canonical lore from the core rules and inserting it into setting books. I've never loved the idea that all settings have the same basic background; I mean, in a way I like the quasi-Jungian idea of some kind of &quot;archetypal world&quot; of which all D&amp;D worlds are manifest variations. On the other hand, I prefer to differentiate my own homebrews from core D&amp;D, with my own origin stories for the various races.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mercurius, post: 8031826, member: 59082"] Good question. Short answer: haven't thought that deeply into it. I had the initial idea brewing over the last week, and fleshed it out as I wrote the OP. My sense is not that different than now, but more general. Perhaps each race (and sub-race) would have a general description and then a sub-heading "Elves in D&D Worlds" that gives just general indicators, with full write-ups (e.g. Faerunian Gold Elves) in the setting books. Or something like that. The idea would be to direct players to specific worlds, and/or encourage DMs to design their own variants. The key, I think, is de-tangling canonical lore from the core rules and inserting it into setting books. I've never loved the idea that all settings have the same basic background; I mean, in a way I like the quasi-Jungian idea of some kind of "archetypal world" of which all D&D worlds are manifest variations. On the other hand, I prefer to differentiate my own homebrews from core D&D, with my own origin stories for the various races. [/QUOTE]

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