D&D (2024) Greyhawk Confirmed. Tell Me Why.

[Paul Farquhar]

It will be interesting if they consider the history of Greyhawk and use it as an example of how you can take a baseline, human-centric, lowish magic (with pockets of high magic) setting, and then find ways to adapt that to 5e rules where almost all modern groups will be magic-using non-humans.

Player character exceptionalism was a baseline assumption of early D&D, and hence Greyhawk. The general population makeup was never expected to resemble an adventuring party.

 

[Maxperson]

Player character exceptionalism was a baseline assumption of early D&D, and hence Greyhawk. The general population makeup was never expected to resemble an adventuring party.

That is true.

 

[Pauln6]

Player character exceptionalism was a baseline assumption of early D&D, and hence Greyhawk. The general population makeup was never expected to resemble an adventuring party.

Yes very true! And of course in 1e half the group was human or you were missing key classes.

 

[Hussar]

Yes very true! And of course in 1e half the group was human or you were missing key classes.

According to what we know about what people play, that’s still largely true. Maybe not half, but a good solid third of pcs are human.

Things haven’t changed that much.