D&D 5E (2024) WotC Should Make 5.5E Specific Setting

[Maxperson]

Again.

The issues isn't that you can drop Dragonborn anywhere.

Its that you can drop Dragonborn anywhere

Because Dragonborn won't matter. You'd have to drop the PCs in an empty space where Dragonborn exist and at which point choosing Greyhawk as a setting won't matter.

You can drop an entire community of dragonborn into any spot in Greyhawk you want. I can drop them into the Greyhawk City if I want to. There zero need to find an empty space for them, because the level of detail on the Greyhawk setting is so minimal that almost anything can have communities almost anywhere without disrupting much of anything.

 

[Hussar]

But that's the same situation Gnome or Halflings have been in for Greyhawk itebtire existence. There is no "deep connection" for them, either. Indeed, the lack of depth is kind of one of Greyhawk's strengths, it is what the table makes of it.

That's not exactly the slam dunk you think it is.

Gnomes and halflings are the least popular species in the game, at least as far as we know. It's been argued in this thread that either could be dropped from the game or rolled up into other species for exactly this reason.

If I play an elf or a dwarf or a human in Greyhawk, I have a MOUNTAIN of material to draw from. That Greyhawk has largely ignored the smaller races isn't a plus.

 

[Maxperson]

But that's the same situation Gnome or Halflings have been in for Greyhawk itebtire existence. There is no "deep connection" for them, either. Indeed, the lack of depth is kind of one of Greyhawk's strengths, it is what the table makes of it.

Yeah. There's no deep connection for anything in Greyhawk. There's too little detail and lore for any deep connections.

 

[Maxperson]

That's not exactly the slam dunk you think it is.

Gnomes and halflings are the least popular species in the game, at least as far as we know. It's been argued in this thread that either could be dropped from the game or rolled up into other species for exactly this reason.

If I play an elf or a dwarf or a human in Greyhawk, I have a MOUNTAIN of material to draw from. That Greyhawk has largely ignored the smaller races isn't a plus.

Greyhawk doesn't have a mountain of material if taken in total, let alone for any given race. There's no mountain of material for elves, humans, dwarves, gnomes, dragons, dragonborn, or weasel men from alcatraz.

 

[Hussar]

Greyhawk doesn't have a mountain of material if taken in total, let alone for any given race. There's no mountain of material for elves, humans, dwarves, gnomes, dragons, dragonborn, or weasel men from alcatraz.

That's very much not true.

I suggest you head over to Canonfire! Canonfire! if you think that's true. There are literally thousands of pages of material for Greyhawk. Oerth Journal is up to issue 36 currently, at about a hundred (ish) pages per issue.

There is a TON of material for Greyhawk.

I mean, sure, compared to Forgotten Realms, it's small. But, that's because Forgotten Realms is probably the most detailed fantasy setting in existence. Tens of thousands of pages of material. Sure. But, compared to most fantasy worlds? Greyhawk is just as detailed as most and more detailed than many.