D&D General [+] Tell me about Greyhawk

[RedSquirrel]

Am I right to infer that Golarion has a lot in common with GH? Because a lot of these descriptions sound like Golarion.

[Well, phooey. Just finished reading the whole thread. It seems I'm not the first to say this.]

There's a lot of people who (years ago) used to refer to Golarion as "Greyhawk 2.0".
Erik Mona is a big Greyhawk fan, and before he was a pro (in the 90s), he was the Editor of the Oerth Journal magazine, dedicated to the World of Greyhawk.
Erik has said (in a Dragon magazine editorial, I believe) that the Land of the Linnorm Kings was based on stuff he'd originally wanted to do in GH. And I think the River Kingdoms were reminiscent of the ... Bandit Kingdoms. (I think?)

Anyway, TL;DR—Yes. Golarion can certainly be seen as having a lot of similarities to Greyhawk.

 

[Voadam]

[Well, phooey. Just finished reading the whole thread. It seems I'm not the first to say this.]

There's a lot of people who (years ago) used to refer to Golarion as "Greyhawk 2.0".
Erik Mona is a big Greyhawk fan, and before he was a pro (in the 90s), he was the Editor of the Oerth Journal magazine, dedicated to the World of Greyhawk.
Erik has said (in a Dragon magazine editorial, I believe) that the Land of the Linnorm Kings was based on stuff he'd originally wanted to do in GH. And I think the River Kingdoms were reminiscent of the ... Bandit Kingdoms. (I think?)

Anyway, TL;DR—Yes. Golarion can certainly be seen as having a lot of similarities to Greyhawk.

There are a couple more Greyhawk Golarion parallelisms too.

 

[RedSquirrel]

Very cool and VERY informative, thank you! Although the links for the physical and support pages throw up huge warnings on mobile and won't let me load them
Not your problem, I know

Not for nothing ... but, it looks like someone from the OJ saw your post. The crowdfunding links were removed and direct contact was inserted.