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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DMZ2112" data-source="post: 7665846" data-attributes="member: 78752">This is such a minor concern that I hesitate to even mention it, but I was actually turned off by how non-committal the adventure was about Tharizdun.  It actually uses the phrase "The Elder Elemental Eye -- whatever that is" at one point.  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯I know Tharizdun being the EEE is controversial canon, but that's not really the point.  The EEE ought to be /something/ specific.  If this stuff is really a multiversal threat, then /own/ it and make it a multiversal threat.  Don't tell me the threat of elemental evil crops up on multiple worlds independently for coincidental world-specific reasons.  As Gabe and Tycho from Penny Arcade would say, that's like peeing in my mouth and telling me it's raining.  I know it's not raining -- you're peeing in my mouth.Between me and Mercule this is becoming another pee thread.  Dammit.It's absolutely fair game.  The economics of doing so are clear, and even setting cynicism aside elemental evil /should/ be a credible multiversal threat to the worlds of D&D.  It's only unfortunate because this could have been an opportunity to provide greater clarity about the post-Spellplague crises of the Sword Coast /or/ an opportunity to provide some information about the post-post-Living Greyhawk crises of Verbobonc and Dyvers, and instead it is fully relevant to neither setting.*I guess what I'm saying is, yeah, leave Greyhawk to Greyhawk, but even more importantly if you're going to do the Forgotten Realms, /do the Forgotten Realms/.*What I was secretly hoping was that Princes of the Apocalypse would involve traveling between Faerun and the Flanaess through the inner planes, setting up a third adventure path set on Oerth, followed by a fourth AP that would take us from Greyhawk to Athas through the astral... but I'm just much better at this than the guys at Wizards.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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