By far these are my favorite articles in Dragon Magazine. I love getting the nitty gritty, cultural elements of Greyhawk on paper and I get a real kick out of seeing the articles try to account for the evolution of the game and setting.
If I could put in one request, though, I'd love to see these articles (and any that involve an evolving subject) have footnotes that tell me in which particular product or timeline such and such event happened.
For example, I just re-read the article on Vecna and saw that there was some sort of rivalry/hatred between him and Orcus. I'm really curious as to what that was about.
In any case, source footnotes would really satisfy the part of me that's enjoying these articles for their demonstration of the evolution of the game.
Thanks for listening.
Indeed. I'm a relative newcomer to D&D lore, but one of my good friends has at least several thousand ranks of knowledge(obscure D&D trivia). Every time I get a new magazine he insists on looking through, and I'm amazed at how much content that I thought was new is actually based on older work. The fact that I'm running a Greyhawk campaign also makes me itch for more, more, more lore, lore, lore!