The Explicit Worldbuilding of Dungeons and Dragons or: Do Elves Have Souls???

One of my longer-running side projects has been going through the ENWorld Gary Gygax Q&A . It ran for several years, up to Gygax's passing, and is the source for a lot of good and interesting information about the early days of Dungeons and Dragons buried under a not-insignificant amount of forum dross. Most of it's already been picked clean, but between yours truly being bored at work and it…