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I'll take that as "I can't".

Yeah, I'm all for letting your freak flag fly, but I'm not sure I'd be down for Catherine the Greating with a Centaur...

Sure, it would. First, you take twenty levels of abilities and crunch them into five, and then you are removing any of those classes subclasses special abilities to boot. Put your money where your mouth is: design me a fighter that can emulate a warrior of shadow monk in only 5 subclass...

I'll make sure to tell Issac Asimov that.

I'm sticking the Styes (GoS) in the Sea of Sorrows for that reason.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Agreed. I personally ran into this problem trying to find anyone who opted to update Souragne from plantation to prison cf VRGR. Everything I saw repeated the same tired antebellum jealous slave owner version. I did find someone who mixed the old domain info with the new origin and ended up...

No class is necessary. Heck, classes themselves aren't. But Rangers have existed since OD&D and been a part of every core since 1e, so I kinda feel they earned their spot; as much as bards, druids, or paladins have.

Notice I didn't say better, just different. Though I could imagine in a best-case scenario a situation closer to how Paizo handles Pathfinder. A universal setting that is literally several kitchen sinks stapled together, lightly touched on in the core books but expanded on in gazetteers and...

For a lot of DMs, a little backstory and a lot of signposts is all you NEED! This sample chapter is designed for DMs starting out who haven't learned the fine art of creation and are looking for inspiration. You guys want to fight pirates? Head South. Interested in stopping Iuz's machinations...

This is the real answer. The original blurb on how Kara Tur was meant for Greyhawk but ended up on Faerun post Gary's departure shows for Greyhawk was de-emphasized but if Gary hadn't left and went through with his version of 2e, D&D would be a radically different game.

I wonder if Erik Mona would be interested...

Actually, I liked the idea of making eladrin, elf, and drow all distinct races which were related rather than using the same elf race and using subrace/lineage/whatever to make them different. It reminds me the altmer/bosmer/dunmer split in Elder Scrolls.

And that's fine. To borrow a different metaphor, Greyhawk is points of light in a dark world while Forgotten Realms is pockets of darkness in a bright world. Greyhawk is a little more cynical, a little more worldly while Forgotten Realms is a little more hopeful and optimistic.

Planescape is Neopolitian. Ravenloft is strawberry swirl (at least I hope it's strawberry) and Dragonlance is artisanal vanilla. Eberron is frozen custard. No I will not explain or expand on this metaphor any further.

To me, the difference has always been vanilla vs French vanilla. There is a difference in taste and color, but for a lot of people the difference is minimal, and both work equally well for any place vanilla ice cream is called for. Yes, there is a difference, but the difference isn't big enough...

It's the weird reason while the species deities (Moradin, Correlon, etc) exist officially in GH and FR, but no other setting. Or while KotB and Blackmoor are both part of the Flanaess and Known World of Mystara. Much of the early D&D stuff was supposed to exist in ALL D&D settings, it isn't...

Greyhawk survived Unearthed Arcana with it cavaliers and PC drow. It survived 2e's From the Ashes with kits and specialty priests. It survived 3e with dwarf wizards and sorcerers. It will survive this. And if you are right and Greyhawk is dead because of dragonborn warlocks, then if deserved...

Based on the writings that exist solely in my mind, I've decided I'm going to skip 6th edition, play 7th, and will wait to see what public opinion is on 8th edition.

Orcs are territorial and warlike, but a small number of them instead opt to live and work with other races instead of fighting them. They just don't need an infusion of human juice to do that.