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Can you give me an example? For instance, i remember countries like Almor or Tenh and thinking the descriptions of them in the original folio/box set didn’t provide a lot of information to distinguish them. They were basically client states to the Great Kingdom, but there was no life to them...

Classic feel to me means the artwork is comparable to 1970s or 1980s TTRPG art. Modern design means minimalistic prose and simple mechanics.

This! Greyhawk Wars and From the Ashes imagined the countries of the setting actually going to war, before settling into a stalemate, which seemed to me as a pretty logical extension of the way the setting was originally presented. I thought it also accomplished a lot in removing some of the...

Which they’ve already done.

I’ve literally never heard this complaint unless the players specifically didn’t like a setting because of some restriction or quirk of the setting, i.e. someone who doesn’t like the sci-fi aspects of Spelljammer or Shadow of the Demon Lord was too dark for them. I’ve never heard a player...

This makes no sense. One has no relation to the other.

Which is a substantial benefit. So even if you dislike WotC’s offerings, you can find someone else’s work.

What in the world does “dangerous” mean in this context?

They didn’t blow up the setting, they gave it new life (and allowed others to start contributing their work to it on DMSGuild as a result). And the foremost fundamental thing to supporting a setting is actually creating new products for that setting. History of settings are mutable - they are...

It is almost literally a dead setting that has had nothing new published for it except tangential material, unless you count stuff like Ghosts of Saltmarsh. Further, WotC publishing new setting material has an actual benefit for fans of the setting because it typically results in DMsGuild third...

But what does that origin mean when measured against all the changes over the years? Does every new player species need to be specifically stated? Just as you’re concerned that people won’t give it consideration, I see people who want Greyhawk to constantly be preserved as if it’s in amber...

Why do you assume they wouldn’t? Why would it bother you if they didn’t?

Debatable, but okay. As for Greyhawk, the entire setting is a single continent whose landmass just drifts off to the left side of the original Darlene map. It doesn’t take a designer much to have virtually any new PC species to migrate from elsewhere.

Okay but they’ve done it multiple times already. The Spellplague, The Time of Troubles. All walked back almost wholesale in later editions keeping only the pieces they ultimately wanted to keep.

Or just throw out what you don’t want and use what you like in the setting and still call it Faerun or the Flanaess. No one is going to give you a ticket.

I don’t know. I would.

You’re talking about canon, and canon for a campaign setting that is then ultimately turned over to a dungeon master to do with as they see fit is self-defeating.

You do it the same way they handled King Obould Many-Arrows in Forgotten Realms. Just because something was written a particular way in 1983, doesn’t mean it has to hold true for today.

TSR hasn’t existed for decades now. It was a weird mistake, and given the strength of their opinions, I’m beginning to wonder how full of *#%! they are.

Which is it? WotC or TSR?