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  • Short: yes, it would sell. Do it!

    Long: This is the format found in the then very popular “Volo’s guide to…” AD&D sourcebooks. They were prefaced and annotated here and there by Elminster, the scholar mage extraordinaire of the setting. The idea was that this Marco Volo character documented tales of places, creatures, magicks, etc. not only without rigor, but prone to exaggerations, inaccuracies, and outright fabrications. Like fake travelogues of the 19th century, just looking for a quick buck from naive readers.

    It was popular for a few reasons:

    • very well written, fun to read
    • delicious, flavorful prose that added color to the world along with data
    • establishes an unreliable narrator, which encouraged GM’s to deviate freely from written lore