D&D 5E Greyhawk: Why We Need Mo' Oerth by 2024

[Helldritch]

I hate PDFs except when I'm prepping. For game play I use the physical copies that I have. If a product doesn't have a hard copy, I almost never buy it.

Hey! Just print the pages you need! I have a portable comp a projector and a tablet just to use the PDF and I still print the pages. I bought cardboard to make the cover and print either the whole book or exactly what I need. Just put what you printed with your physical copy and you can reuse your print out ad nauseam!

 

[Mort]

Hey! Just print the pages you need! I have a portable comp a projector and a tablet just to use the PDF and I still print the pages. I bought cardboard to make the cover and print either the whole book or exactly what I need. Just put what you printed with your physical copy and you can reuse your print out ad nauseam!

Yet, again - EXACTLY what I do. My son laughs at me because I print out the pages instead of using the tablet right next to me when I DM. But it just works for me that much better.

 

[Parmandur]

I don't see why WotC can't support both types of DM's.

Return on investment: the population of people buying books want both, largely, but are more likely to buy a single book. WotC can't make everything for everyone.

 

[Parmandur]

They weren't similar in extent to 5e products - 2e regional books would cover a much wider area, with more pages being solely dedicated to setting info. The only ones that were similar were the Waterdeep books, as both 2e and 5e cover a single city, and Chult.

The main thing is that it would be nice to break free from the northwesternmost eighth of the setting and see other regions. That's only been done with Chult so far, and it would be nice to see popular regions like Cormyr and the Dalelands start getting coverage too...

I think we have entered a post-Realms phase, instead, under Winninger. It seems that Icewind Dale in 2020 was the last FR regional sandbox adventure. In the two years since, all we have is the Candlekeep secof Candlekeep Mysteries.

 

[Urriak Uruk]

I think we have entered a post-Realms phase, instead, under Winninger. It seems that Icewind Dale in 2020 was the last FR regional sandbox adventure. In the two years since, all we have is the Candlekeep secof Candlekeep Mysteries.

Seems like a confirmation that the secret "Ed Greenwood sold the Realms to WotC under the promise they must print an FR book every year to the end of time," was complete boompf.

And of course it is, no company, even an incompetent one, would be crazy enough to sign a contract like that.

 

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

I would like a setting book that at least suggests various adventure ideas for various regions.

If we are talking about the lands of Iuz even bullet point ideas about problems or challenges would be great and empowering for people less familiar with the setting in question.

Explorer's Guide to Wildemount (in my opinion, probably the single best written/designed D&D 5e setting book) has a giant gazetteer for Wildemount in it. Every single town and settlement that it details gets at least one adventure hook for the party if they visit it. Many of them can be the basis for a full campaign.

In my opinion, every D&D 5e setting book should do this in their gazetteer section.

 

[Mort]

Explorer's Guide to Wildemount (in my opinion, probably the single best written/designed D&D 5e setting book) has a giant gazetteer for Wildemount in it. Every single town and settlement that it details gets at least one adventure hook for the party if they visit it. Many of them can be the basis for a full campaign.

In my opinion, every D&D 5e setting book should do this in their gazetteer section.

This is how the (circa 3e) Greyhawk Gazetteer was written as well. Every area had multiple adventure hooks.

 

[Mercurius]

I haven't kept up with the thread, so am not sure if anyone has suggested this, but one way I could see them approaching Greyhawk is in a more limited manner: A book not unlike Waterdeep: Dragon Heist, with a bunch of info on the city of Greyhawk, and then a Castle Greyhawk dungeon-delve.

Doing this would both check off the box of doing honor to Greyhawk, but also not open up the can of worms that a full setting treatment might lead to (too classic vs. too contemporary).

 

[Parmandur]

Seems like a confirmation that the secret "Ed Greenwood sold the Realms to WotC under the promise they must print an FR book every year to the end of time," was complete boompf.

And of course it is, no company, even an incompetent one, would be crazy enough to sign a contract like that.

At the very least, I'm sure that WotC closed any loopholes when they bought D&D.

 

[Parmandur]

Explorer's Guide to Wildemount (in my opinion, probably the single best written/designed D&D 5e setting book) has a giant gazetteer for Wildemount in it. Every single town and settlement that it details gets at least one adventure hook for the party if they visit it. Many of them can be the basis for a full campaign.

In my opinion, every D&D 5e setting book should do this in their gazetteer section.

That's actually closer to how, say, the Greyhawk Folio was written back in the day.