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<blockquote data-quote="tetrasodium" data-source="post: 8182864" data-attributes="member: 93670"><p>0</p><p></p><p>The level of specificity differs by orders of magnitude. The PHB race pages wouldn't be all that out of place in a forgotten realms campaign setting. My pathfinder APG has setting neutral base races & only gets into anything remotely specific when you get to alternate racial traits. eRven those are genericized. 3.5 was similar to pf in this regard. The 5e phb having a higher level of setting specific stuff baked in becomes all the more problematic because stuff from other settings that differs from FR to any notable degree is just left out. I can find better compatibility for some darksun & eberron style gnomes elves & even halflings in the apg alternative racial traits than 5e phb & that's a horrible level of support for the phb.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I think you can add ToA, STK, HotDQ, RoT(?), Both Waterdeep HC adventures (dragonheist/domm). The start of DiA is in FR & the rest is especially notable in this context because settings like darksun & eberron that notably differ from FR also have a very different planar structure + different role & lore for fiends. Also CoS is heavily faerunized in 5e & a lot of what makes ravenloft Ravenloft rather than gothic FR with a vampire bbeg is played down.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="tetrasodium, post: 8182864, member: 93670"] 0 The level of specificity differs by orders of magnitude. The PHB race pages wouldn't be all that out of place in a forgotten realms campaign setting. My pathfinder APG has setting neutral base races & only gets into anything remotely specific when you get to alternate racial traits. eRven those are genericized. 3.5 was similar to pf in this regard. The 5e phb having a higher level of setting specific stuff baked in becomes all the more problematic because stuff from other settings that differs from FR to any notable degree is just left out. I can find better compatibility for some darksun & eberron style gnomes elves & even halflings in the apg alternative racial traits than 5e phb & that's a horrible level of support for the phb. I think you can add ToA, STK, HotDQ, RoT(?), Both Waterdeep HC adventures (dragonheist/domm). The start of DiA is in FR & the rest is especially notable in this context because settings like darksun & eberron that notably differ from FR also have a very different planar structure + different role & lore for fiends. Also CoS is heavily faerunized in 5e & a lot of what makes ravenloft Ravenloft rather than gothic FR with a vampire bbeg is played down. [/QUOTE]
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