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Message: <blockquote data-quote="doctorbadwolf" data-source="post: 7529686" data-attributes="member: 6704184">Yep. As someone who likes the setting, and the show, I have to agree with all of that. I do love his Raven Queen, though. His characterization of her is just wonderful.  Absolutely! The article that introduced playable gnolls, or the one that intoduced playable minotaurs, didn't just give us enough info to make a character, it also told us about the history of the world, and of two terrifying demon lords, and about the nature of free will in this world. Aldarc hit this nail on the head in his reply, so I'll just add that each one had it's own story, and most of the time you could plant that story in any world, because they didn't involve anyone that wasn't necessary. If the story involves the demon prince that most minotaurs serve, it doesn't randomly throw in the Raven Queen, so as long as that demon prince is in your game, you can use that lore. While doing that, they also fleshed out the implied world of 4e, ie Nentir Vale. The point of the implied setting was that you could easily just plug it into any home game that mostly used the lore of the PHB, or could just fill in blanks in your setting with bits of PoLand, but the world itself stood on it's own if you wanted it to, and I think fans surprised and maybe confused the designers by how much we liked it.</blockquote>