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<blockquote data-quote="Coroc" data-source="post: 7807091" data-attributes="member: 6895991"><p>Agree, but here is some difference between FR and greyhawk that I personally see if a player wants to be more invested into a settings lore.</p><p>E.g. a player of a cleric wants some more background on his deity </p><p></p><p>FR: I can point him to FR wiki or whatever, but afterwards will eventually be bombarded by questions like</p><p>"What happened to the deity during spellplague /sundering/ the times when they became all mortal etc etc and how do you run your setting considering whatever has happened then?" If I dm my style with heavy restrictions / some housrules then I run into a the situation that I have to clear more things up in the end than if I had told hi mall the background stuff important for my version of the FR upfront.</p><p></p><p>Greyhawk: I can point the player to canonfire and he gets a bit more background and it fits even if I heavily houserule my greyhawk setting, put in a different tech level, and set the thing to year 579. There might be some contradictions but normally there are none.</p><p></p><p>Why is that so? Because FR is timeline heavy in what ever (official) lore is referring to what period. It might be that officially the deity for whom my player wants to play a cleric is dead during a certain period.</p><p>I Greyhawk the most likely background info my player will find is what kind of people are worshippers and in which regions, what are the colors, symbol etc. maybe some antagonist of the deity, but not much that is connected to the metaplot like in FR </p><p>e.g. like god xy killed your god during the spellplague and it was only after the resundering that she reappeared with lost Abeir returning yadda etc... (just makin up stuff here but that's the kind of issues which might occur)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Coroc, post: 7807091, member: 6895991"] Agree, but here is some difference between FR and greyhawk that I personally see if a player wants to be more invested into a settings lore. E.g. a player of a cleric wants some more background on his deity FR: I can point him to FR wiki or whatever, but afterwards will eventually be bombarded by questions like "What happened to the deity during spellplague /sundering/ the times when they became all mortal etc etc and how do you run your setting considering whatever has happened then?" If I dm my style with heavy restrictions / some housrules then I run into a the situation that I have to clear more things up in the end than if I had told hi mall the background stuff important for my version of the FR upfront. Greyhawk: I can point the player to canonfire and he gets a bit more background and it fits even if I heavily houserule my greyhawk setting, put in a different tech level, and set the thing to year 579. There might be some contradictions but normally there are none. Why is that so? Because FR is timeline heavy in what ever (official) lore is referring to what period. It might be that officially the deity for whom my player wants to play a cleric is dead during a certain period. I Greyhawk the most likely background info my player will find is what kind of people are worshippers and in which regions, what are the colors, symbol etc. maybe some antagonist of the deity, but not much that is connected to the metaplot like in FR e.g. like god xy killed your god during the spellplague and it was only after the resundering that she reappeared with lost Abeir returning yadda etc... (just makin up stuff here but that's the kind of issues which might occur) [/QUOTE]
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