These screencaps were posted by GM Leigh (of Mage Productions) on Twitter after being showed on WotC's Twitch stream, presented by Kate Welch and Nathan Stewart. Note the old Saltmarsh trilogy references!
Yeah, I love those old modules but Yawning Portal was... well... appropriately named. I totally don't get why that was a hardcover. Nice PoD redos of classic modules on DMs Guild? Sure. I suspect they had a production schedule to fill and something wasn't working out.
Me, too! Especially if they do the whole 3 module arc which was excellent!I’m for a Saltmarsh update no matter how it’s updated!
If this is based on Saltmarsh, and the U series which is set in Greyhawk but they set this in FR, a lot of Greyhawk fans are going to be upset. Seriously this silly, FR has a major old school adventure that is widely seen as one of the best, Desert of Desolation, but instead they largely bastardize adventures from other settings, but twisting them for FR.
The links between the U series and Greyhawk, at least within the series itself, are so anemic as to be nearly non-existent. As far as I can tell, these are all the things that would place them in Greyhawk:
1. When the town of Saltmarsh is described, the book gives the DM a number of parameters to use when building their own Saltmarsh - basically, asking where's the inn, who's in charge, who do they worship, and so on. At the end, it says "On the World of Greyhawk map, Saltmarsh is located here, and there are two larger towns about 20 miles away named Burle and Seaton."
2. At some points in the adventure, books by Nystul and Tenser show up, but play little role other than as loot.
3. In U3, there's an imprisoned NPC who's sent from the Hold of the Sea Princes to investigate things.
That's pretty much all there is to it. The effort it would take to place this in Forgotten Realms, Eberron, or whatever homebrew setting you have that doesn't deviate too far from the D&D norm is pretty close to nil.
Personally, as long as they assign content to one setting and then change it, it doesn't bother me too much what they do. Setting an originally setting neutral adventure (or even setting like Kara-tur) into a specific settings is okay. But once you've established something, just leave it there!
We should realize that there is no canon. There are as many world's as there are tables, and some tables run many worldsWhy?
Why be beholden to decisions made decades ago just because it's canon? Who cares?
Why?
Why be beholden to decisions made decades ago just because it's canon? Who cares?