New Posts For Thread: Games Workshop, Dawn of War, and What Wizards Can Learn From It.http://community.wizards.com/dndnext/go/thread/view/75882/29438001/Games_Workshop,_Dawn_of_War,_and_What_Wizards_Can_Learn_From_It.Games Workshop is a company that makes tabletop wargames, which is a very comparable business to WotC's. Their best-selling product is Warhammer 40000, and several popular video games have been made based on it: the Dawn of War series of Real Time StI want the choice of what to include. Just because a beholder exists in the monster manual doesn't imply that it necessarily exists in my world. Every monster is inherently optional. Planescape is a definite exception and should allow anything, becashttp://community.wizards.com/dndnext/go/thread/view/75882/29438001/Games_Workshop,_Dawn_of_War,_and_What_Wizards_Can_Learn_From_It.?post_id=525495091#525495091I want the choice of what to include. Just because a beholder exists in the monster manual doesn't imply that it necessarily exists in my world. Every monster is inherently optional. Planescape is a definite exception and should allow anything, becasFri, 26 Oct 2012 12:51:30 -0500About gnomes from dark sun I suspect some gnomes survived (hidding in the underground) but they become the other race, the hej-kin It is only my hypothesishttp://community.wizards.com/dndnext/go/thread/view/75882/29438001/Games_Workshop,_Dawn_of_War,_and_What_Wizards_Can_Learn_From_It.?post_id=525485899#525485899About gnomes from dark sun I suspect some gnomes survived (hidding in the underground) but they become the other race, the hej-kin It is only my hypothesisFri, 26 Oct 2012 08:34:58 -0500Gnomes did exist sorta in the original Dark Sun- as undead. They were all exterminated. DS came out about the same time as things like Captain Planet and the genocide in the Balkens which kinda influenced it. Ecological destruction and genocide as sthttp://community.wizards.com/dndnext/go/thread/view/75882/29438001/Games_Workshop,_Dawn_of_War,_and_What_Wizards_Can_Learn_From_It.?post_id=525482113#525482113Gnomes did exist sorta in the original Dark Sun- as undead. They were all exterminated. DS came out about the same time as things like Captain Planet and the genocide in the Balkens which kinda influenced it. Ecological destruction and genocide as stFri, 26 Oct 2012 05:36:18 -0500All three published settings, or four if you include the Nentir Vale. Although I am interested to see where they put gnomes and half-orcs into Dark Sun, for example. I don't remember them being in my campaign guide.http://community.wizards.com/dndnext/go/thread/view/75882/29438001/Games_Workshop,_Dawn_of_War,_and_What_Wizards_Can_Learn_From_It.?post_id=525480387#525480387All three published settings, or four if you include the Nentir Vale. Although I am interested to see where they put gnomes and half-orcs into Dark Sun, for example. I don't remember them being in my campaign guide.Fri, 26 Oct 2012 03:26:44 -0500Yeah, that's exactly why I don't want dragonborn as base races. I don't want the expectation that these races are going to be included in every campaign setting everywhere. I don't care if there are rules for these races in the original PHB or DMG, bhttp://community.wizards.com/dndnext/go/thread/view/75882/29438001/Games_Workshop,_Dawn_of_War,_and_What_Wizards_Can_Learn_From_It.?post_id=525473209#525473209Yeah, that's exactly why I don't want dragonborn as base races. I don't want the expectation that these races are going to be included in every campaign setting everywhere. I don't care if there are rules for these races in the original PHB or DMG, bThu, 25 Oct 2012 18:38:43 -0500