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<blockquote data-quote="Aaron Litz" data-source="post: 7602972" data-attributes="member: 6907485">I am happily flabbergasted. There has been too much transplanting of cool things from Oerth onto Toril, doing a disservice to both settings by robbing each of its distinctive flavor (separating Castle Greyhawk from Oerth and Evermeet from Toril so that anyone from any setting can visit them?&nbsp; Seriously WotC?&nbsp; That's pure cheese.)&nbsp; Every exchange makes both settings more generic and less interesting.They started out doing a good job in the DMG explaining how the various established settings have different flavors and belonging to different sub-genres, describing how the Forgotten Realms is High Fantasy while Greyhawk is Swords &amp; Sorcery, even though after that they just ignored their own words and kept transplanting iconic Greyhawk themes to the 'Realms despite the differences in flavor between the settings. I'm glad to see they're using some restraint and taste.&nbsp; For a while I was worried they were going to try to transplant the Free City of Greyhawk to the southern edge of the Sea of Fallen Stars to be a rival of Zhentil Keep or something.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Aaron Litz, post: 7602972, member: 6907485"] I am happily flabbergasted. There has been too much transplanting of cool things from Oerth onto Toril, doing a disservice to both settings by robbing each of its distinctive flavor (separating Castle Greyhawk from Oerth and Evermeet from Toril so that anyone from any setting can visit them? Seriously WotC? That's pure cheese.) Every exchange makes both settings more generic and less interesting. They started out doing a good job in the DMG explaining how the various established settings have different flavors and belonging to different sub-genres, describing how the Forgotten Realms is High Fantasy while Greyhawk is Swords & Sorcery, even though after that they just ignored their own words and kept transplanting iconic Greyhawk themes to the 'Realms despite the differences in flavor between the settings. I'm glad to see they're using some restraint and taste. For a while I was worried they were going to try to transplant the Free City of Greyhawk to the southern edge of the Sea of Fallen Stars to be a rival of Zhentil Keep or something. [/QUOTE]

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