D&D General You Can Now Make Greyhawk Stuff On DM's Guild!

As of today, third party creators can publish and sell material set in the World of Greyhawk! Dating back to the dawn of Dungeons & Dragons, Greyhawk has an entire chapter devoted to it in the new 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide.

Right now you can check out some legacy official content from Wizards of the Coast, but expect more to start appearing there as soon as the third party creators get their teeth into it.

Dungeons & Dragons May Not Come Back to Greyhawk After 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide

Wizards of the Coast does not appear to have future plans for the Greyhawk setting past the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide. Speaking at a press event earlier this month, Dungeons & Dragons game architect Chris Perkins explained that the inclusion of Greyhawk campaign setting material in the...

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[Parmandur]

Are these major classic settings? They sure don't feel like it to me.

Mystara was the default Setting of the Basic D&D line for many years, which means that it is the only TSR Setting that was released in a lot countries: see all the Mystara DNA in Anime or JRPGs, gir instance.

Birthright was not a major success, per se, but it got a big old product push, unlike say Jakandor.

 

[Staffan]

Breaking it down specifically, it's
50% Creator
30% OneBookShelf
20% WotC

I don't think we know the split between OBS and Wizards on DM's Guild materials, do we? I believe OBS takes 30-35% for regular stuff (30% if exclusive to OBS, 35% if you sell it elsewhere), but I would not be surprised if Wizards have negotiated a bigger piece of the pie for DM's Guild stuff. Either way, the relevant part for those publishing via it is the 50% that goes to the creator, and the OBS/Wizards split is their problem.

 

[Burnside]

I don't think we know the split between OBS and Wizards on DM's Guild materials, do we? I believe OBS takes 30-35% for regular stuff (30% if exclusive to OBS, 35% if you sell it elsewhere), but I would not be surprised if Wizards have negotiated a bigger piece of the pie for DM's Guild stuff. Either way, the relevant part for those publishing via it is the 50% that goes to the creator, and the OBS/Wizards split is their problem.

The 30% OBS/ 20% WotC is from a Keith Baker blog post about DMsGuild royalty structures. It's a reasonable assumption that he knows the breakdown given his connections, although it's true that neither OBS/Roll20 or WotC has publicly provided that breakdown. It also makes sense in that as you say, on DriveThruRPG, OBS gets 30% on non-exclusives and the creator gets 70% - it's a reasonable conclusion that the 20% less for creators on DMsGuild is going to WotC for use of their IP.

 

[UVAtom]

<insert obligatory indignant post from Birthright supporter here>

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I can't imagine the rights issues for Imagine magazine are any less tangled than the Dragon magazine rights, but getting Pellinore back in any fashion would be amazing. They never got terribly far in fleshing out the city before Imagine folded, but what they did do was distinct and had its own (very British) flavor that wasn't anything like the Lankhmar-with-the-serial-numbers-filed-off vibe of Greyhawk and Waterdeep, etc.

 

[Quickleaf]

Are these major classic settings? They sure don't feel like it to me.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

Are these major classic settings? They sure don't feel like it to me.

As others have pointed out, Mystara was THE setting for Basic D&D in its various incarnation.

As for Birthright it got 25 role-playing products and 5 novels and comic book and a video game, so yeah that qualifies it as a major classic setting easily.

 

[dave2008]

As others have pointed out, Mystara was THE setting for Basic D&D in its various incarnation.

As for Birthright it got 25 role-playing products and 5 novels and comic book and a video game, so yeah that qualifies it as a major classic setting easily.

Yet somehow I had never heard of it until a few years ago. Despite playing D&D for the past 30 years.

 

[dave2008]

Mystara is thanks to its large history with Basic, but Birthright was a flash in the pan that only is remembered as the last TSR era setting..

We can debate Birthtight, but Mystara/Known World is a classic setting without a doubt.

Mystara was the default Setting of the Basic D&D line for many years, which means that it is the only TSR Setting that was released in a lot countries: see all the Mystara DNA in Anime or JRPGs, gir instance.

Birthright was not a major success, per se, but it got a big old product push, unlike say Jakandor.

I want to clarify that I know of both birthright and the known world now. But I didn't back then. I started with BECMI (with AD&D mashed in) and had no idea the "setting" was the Known World / Mystara until I started coming to online forums back in 2007/2008. So I obviously interacted with it to some extent, but it seem entirely irrelevant to the game. Now I didn't have any interaction with and I only even know of it from such discussions of classic settings over the past decade or so.

 

[Parmandur]

Yet somehow I had never heard of it until a few years ago. Despite playing D&D for the past 30 years.

Not sure if you mean Mystara or Birthright.

Mystara is actually a rebranding, from The Known World, which probably hurt it in terms of recognizability. Dates back to X1 The Isle of Dread.

Birthright got the one big push right before the bankruptcy of TSR, which is not a coincidence: people were not buying, so not so many people know about it.