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<blockquote data-quote="Whizbang Dustyboots" data-source="post: 6369211" data-attributes="member: 11760">What, no pony?Given how niche some of those ideas are -- coins, really? -- and your apparent wish to have all D&amp;D material ever become canonical with explicit connections between everything, I have to wonder what the previous golden ages were, in your mind. 1E certainly didn't suggest that all of these properties were tightly interrelated. (Even Ed Greenwood's Wizards Three articles in Dragon, which crossed over wizards from three settings, were firmly tongue-in-cheek.)I also don't know that 5E is necessarily suited for superheroic play. Mutants &amp; Masterminds, probably the most-respected superhero game derived from a version of D&amp;D, had to take a lot of liberties to work for that genre and isn't immediately compatible with 3E as a result.A lot of this other stuff is really the province of fan sites, which will do a better job of knitting together all the lore of one or more game worlds than any WotC contractor ever could. (Expect to hear a lot of fans mad that the new Game of Thrones history book isn't as good as the Westeros.org fan site in a few weeks, for instance.)I also think that bringing back all the spells, magic items and every race and character option, without context, ignores the fact that a lot of them were left in the dustbin of history for a reason.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Whizbang Dustyboots, post: 6369211, member: 11760"] What, no pony? Given how niche some of those ideas are -- coins, really? -- and your apparent wish to have all D&D material ever become canonical with explicit connections between everything, I have to wonder what the previous golden ages were, in your mind. 1E certainly didn't suggest that all of these properties were tightly interrelated. (Even Ed Greenwood's Wizards Three articles in Dragon, which crossed over wizards from three settings, were firmly tongue-in-cheek.) I also don't know that 5E is necessarily suited for superheroic play. Mutants & Masterminds, probably the most-respected superhero game derived from a version of D&D, had to take a lot of liberties to work for that genre and isn't immediately compatible with 3E as a result. A lot of this other stuff is really the province of fan sites, which will do a better job of knitting together all the lore of one or more game worlds than any WotC contractor ever could. (Expect to hear a lot of fans mad that the new Game of Thrones history book isn't as good as the Westeros.org fan site in a few weeks, for instance.) I also think that bringing back all the spells, magic items and every race and character option, without context, ignores the fact that a lot of them were left in the dustbin of history for a reason. [/QUOTE]

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