Since you have a terrible habit of misinterpreting or misunderstanding what I write, I am pretty confident I didn't, and you just made something up.
Every example you gave was "elf" and "Goliath", "elves live here, goliaths live there" "elves act this way, goliaths act that way"
So since you need to do it for elves and goliaths in the same way... what's the difference?
Such as here, where you misinterpret me giving examples of what could be in that chapter so that new worldbuilders would have ideas of what to think about when making their world, as things that
must be done.
The fact I mentioned elves doesn't mean that I am requiring or "demanding" elves be given any special treatment--or that we (or WotC, or new worldbuilders, or whomever) can't use elf lore from other editions, or anything else you're making up right now.
Sure, you can answer a question with a few words if you really want, but that seems to cause an issue, doesn't it? Because they picked Greyhawk, according to you, then they will have far too much to explain and showcase. But also, according to you, the level of information they really need is only two sentences per race to cover everything?
Do you think after writing the handful of paragraphs describing Goliaths in the PHB, that the designers would be incapable of writing these sentences you are demanding? And would anyone be happy if the entirety of all elves across all of greyhawk was reduced to a mere sentence? I mean, you are the one demanding these things are problems, but then your solutions are so bare-bones and simple... are they even issues?
And you're misinterpreting or misunderstanding me here again. The few words or sentences are what the book would suggest new worldbuilders write, so they don't feel they have to write reams of in-depth information on every aspect of their setting.
Because certain other posters here have said that to them, worldbuilding means going into incredible amounts of depth regarding things that aren't actually important to the game, like detailing ten generations of the royal family. That's not important for either the game or for most players to use as background information. But writing a
couple of sentences on where and how the various species live
is something that a new worldbuilder can and should focus on.
Interesting. They are going to teach people to show off the world they have made to others? Or, is making the world the actual action of world-building? Kind of hard to tell with your facepalm which one you think is world-building and which isn't.
And you're misunderstanding me
again. You
must be doing this on purpose. Do you
really not understand what I wrote? Or that those two different paragraphs referred to two different things?
I'm sure you did not say those exact words. But you have repeatedly framed the choice of greyhawk as a mistake, a grave one,
Nope! Another misunderstanding--or are you outright making stuff up now? What I have said is that it would be
better for them to make a new world in this hypothetical chapter. "This would be better" =/= "not making this choice is a grave mistake."
one that could have been avoided if they just did things the way you would have done them. You have never ackowledged a single good point about their choice,
Mostly because I doubt that WotC is going to lean into the things that make Greyhawk different from any other standard fantasy world, like having a crashed spaceship.
If they
did, if they decided that not only were they going to emphasize the weirder or at least nonstandard aspects of the setting, but make them into the main focus of the setting--such as my
thought (not demand, not requirement, just an idea) that they bring weird tech and radiation mutants and things like that into the world--
then I would say that Greyhawk is a good choice. And so you don't misunderstand this, "is a good choice" is my personal opinion on the matter, not an objective measure of Greyhawk's worth, since I have no personal nostalgia for the setting and my favorite D&D settings have always been the non-standard ones.
And, I will reiterate my position. They had good reasons to pick Greyhawk. We have no reason to assume this chapter will fail at its intended goal. That is it. That is my entire position which you keep stringently arguing against.
Since I at no point ever said that this chapter will fail if they pick Greyhawk, this is you either misinterpreting, misunderstanding, or lying about what I've said and done. Which is it?
