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<blockquote data-quote="James Gasik" data-source="post: 8642608" data-attributes="member: 6877472"><p>At some point, TSR began to "push" the Forgotten Realms. Whether to distance themselves from Gary or simply because it was still a newer property. Novels, comic books, even computer games, were made to focus on properties that were not Greyhawk- even Mystara got a few games, like the Capcom coin-op beat 'em up's, or the Sega game, which takes place in The Hollow World.</p><p></p><p>Many computer games (such as the SSI classics) took place in the Realms, though later we had computer games set in Ravenloft and even The Outer Planes!</p><p></p><p>But Greyhawk, despite being a source of many classic game elements like Vecna or Acererak, was pushed backwards. 3e started with some Greyhawk elements in the PHB, but then quickly WotC published Forgotten Realms books.</p><p></p><p>4e started with the Points of Light/Nentir Vale as it's default setting, but when the time came to produce other settings, the Forgotten Realms got the lion's share of the attention (but for once, the now-traditional "cataclysm to explain the edition changes" broke the FR fans).</p><p></p><p>And 5e continued by giving us...well a slice of the Realms, even as they imported things like, say, Acererak to some adventures.</p><p></p><p>But rarely has Greyhawk gotten any attention. Heck Vecna and Kas were actually punted into Ravenloft for a time!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="James Gasik, post: 8642608, member: 6877472"] At some point, TSR began to "push" the Forgotten Realms. Whether to distance themselves from Gary or simply because it was still a newer property. Novels, comic books, even computer games, were made to focus on properties that were not Greyhawk- even Mystara got a few games, like the Capcom coin-op beat 'em up's, or the Sega game, which takes place in The Hollow World. Many computer games (such as the SSI classics) took place in the Realms, though later we had computer games set in Ravenloft and even The Outer Planes! But Greyhawk, despite being a source of many classic game elements like Vecna or Acererak, was pushed backwards. 3e started with some Greyhawk elements in the PHB, but then quickly WotC published Forgotten Realms books. 4e started with the Points of Light/Nentir Vale as it's default setting, but when the time came to produce other settings, the Forgotten Realms got the lion's share of the attention (but for once, the now-traditional "cataclysm to explain the edition changes" broke the FR fans). And 5e continued by giving us...well a slice of the Realms, even as they imported things like, say, Acererak to some adventures. But rarely has Greyhawk gotten any attention. Heck Vecna and Kas were actually punted into Ravenloft for a time! [/QUOTE]
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