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Well, to an extent... adventure building and world building are the same thing. For example, the how much is too much detail and how much depth is too much depth are key for both. And the answer for this chapter is going to be less detail and less depth, by sheer necessity. Again, we are likely...

Yes yes Analogies are not perfect. Is it? I don't think it is too complex. Because I think you are trying to look at this as though it is an encyclopedia. Even if you were making a brand-new setting, attempting to include 200 cities, a dozen factions, three different BBEGs and thirty areas of...

Exactly.

Eh, that just sounds like someone who was looking for a different type of group. I wouldn't even register that as quirky, just trying to include erotic elements into a game and group that didn't want them. Which is generally just a person with poor understandings of boundaries. But, see, if...

Nah, I get you. I know a lot of the ones I read early on were based in MMORPGs so I was lost... quite a few times, since I'm just not up on the lingo. In many ways, I think it is a genre still finding its legs.

I honestly don't see how doing the same process with an established, well-built setting is any different. If you want to teach an art class about chiaroscuro, you don't start out by painting a new painting. You show them a finished painting, and talk about why the decisions that went into making...

The published books are going to call them Warforged, because that is the mechanical designation. If they even decide to officially add them into a new setting (which I don't think they will) then it will be under a heading like "Warforged across the Multiverse". And there, they MIGHT decide to...

Fair, but I am an unabashed massive fan of the genre. It combines things I love like DnD the Game with storytelling, and it tends to be both funny and epic at the same time. There are a lot of poorly written schlock stories out there, but at its best? At its best these stories hit a need in me.

You know, it is always amazing to me that when people complain about players who want to play quirky characters, they never say something like "a pixie artificer who likes explosions" which is a character I could imagine a player actually coming up with. It is a Half-Grung half-sentient cheese...

I am not sure if you are trying to make an argument, or just stating the most bland fact ever. I made a character who was mechanically an autognome. I called them a Living Doll, because they were made by a crazy, immortal and creepy Toymaker instead of by any gnomes. Yeah, if you really want...

Ah, we were in the Mere of Dead men, I just thought the DM was altering the adventure, since he did that a lot (I assume the parasitic hellbees in the attic were not original)

They were 3.5? I would have sworn they were in the 2e books at least. My bad.

They were an old DnD thing, 1st or 2nd edition. Same as the Thought Eater I mentioned. No idea if they were "specific" to GH

Honestly, I kind of gave up on the idea of clearly differentiated genres a while ago. Broadly, the categories are useful, but when you start getting to specific works, it can progress down many a strange path. For example, under the Genre of Fantasy, there is the sub-genre of LitRPG (which is...

My man, no one is hating on Greyhawk. The worst thing that has been said about it is that it is a kitchen sink style setting. And considering it includes fun-house dungeons, a literal cowboy turned God, and spaceships with moss aliens and laser guns... I think that is a fair cop, not hatred...

If a new, inexperienced DM decides to run Greyhawk for their first campaign ever, and they have a player who has an obsessive knowledge of the 40 year old setting, and precise requirement for exactly what that DM should have in Greyhawk.... nothing WoTC ever writes could help that DM. IF someone...

Cool. So there is literally no issue that is going to come up from the use of Greyhawk in the DMG or the new material in the PHB and this entire tangent has been a pointless waste of everyone's time. You say you've had to defend a "Simple concept" but there is no concept to defend. No one has...

Yes, exactly. So what is the problem? No one has an issue with doing that. Okay, setting purists might have an issue with that, but no one else has called that a problem in any way. No it isn't. No one has said that.

Why will that happen in Greyhawk, but not Theros? Or Strixhaven? Or any other setting. Greyhawk has dragons, it has half-dragons, it has people who worship dragons, it has (from 3e) people who study ancient arts to turn into dragons. Why are we assuming that a person who makes a Dragonborn...

Ah, I still haven't read through that yet