D&D General Melf's Guide to Greyhawk Coming From Luke Gygax & WotC

mamba · 2026-03-19T23:28:34+0000

Dire Bare said:
Having a rift in the community, between the OSR crowd, the modern D&D crowd, and WotC is not good for WotC or the community.

I do not consider it a rift so much as simply different preferences. There will never be one game that is the preferred one for everyone, people will continue to play different games, it does not matter whether that is an OSR game, Cyberpunk, Sci Fi, Cthulhu, …

Dire Bare said:
For the current WotC management to be working on mending that rift and including Luke in new D&D products is a good move.

I doubt this is mending any rift in the first place. It gives the product a bit of attention / name recognition. Maybe Luke even delivers something good (no idea), I doubt it will be all that different from WotC creating something for Greyhawk without him though

mamba · 2026-03-19T23:29:54+0000

aco175 said:
Melf the Elf was the model for one of my first characters- Orf the Dwarf. I hope for obvious reasons.

shouldn’t their name be Mdwarf then?

Morrus · 2026-03-19T23:39:30+0000

...m... said:
...i can't tell whether this is more akin to quasi-sanctioned eberron / realms books from keith baker and ed greenwood or a fully-sanctioned D&D supplement...

He specifically says it's officially coming out through WotC.

Maxperson · 2026-03-19T23:40:04+0000

mamba said:
shouldn’t their name be Mdwarf then?

M'dwarf. Or a cleric? MD Warf.

darjr · 2026-03-19T23:46:19+0000

aco175 said:
Melf the Elf was the model for one of my first characters- Orf the Dwarf. I hope for obvious reasons.

Should have named him 571oca!

DarkCrisis · 2026-03-19T23:46:47+0000

Dire Bare said:
Disagree.

Having a rift in the community, between the OSR crowd, the modern D&D crowd, and WotC is not good for WotC or the community.

For the current WotC management to be working on mending that rift and including Luke in new D&D products is a good move.

I play OSR because I want a less bloated game that's not so pro-player survival.

I say this as someone who is currently running (and enjoying) Daggerheart where the players literally cannot die unless they want to.

D&D is just too much and too fluffy. I honestly can't say I'd ever run again. I'd play it though.

bedir than · 2026-03-20T00:01:52+0000

mamba said:
I do not consider it a rift so much as simply different preferences. There will never be one game that is the preferred one for everyone, people will continue to play different games, it does not matter whether that is an OSR game, Cyberpunk, Sci Fi, Cthulhu, …

I doubt this is mending any rift in the first place. It gives the product a bit of attention / name recognition. Maybe Luke even delivers something good (no idea), I doubt it will be all that different from WotC creating something for Greyhawk without him though

I think your confusion about the rift is that you're thinking of it as a disagreement about rules. But since Luke plays current WotC D&D bringing up OSR is odd. The 'rift' wasn't about rules.

Planescape · 2026-03-20T00:36:13+0000

Nice! Will definitely pick this one up

Whizbang Dustyboots · 2026-03-20T00:39:33+0000

Expecting this to be a DMs Guild thing like Greenwood's and Baker's Forgotten Realms and Eberron stuff. That doesn't make this any less cool, though.

bedir than · 2026-03-20T00:40:30+0000

Whizbang Dustyboots said:
Expecting this to be a DMs Guild thing like Greenwood's and Baker's Forgotten Realms and Eberron stuff. That doesn't make this any less cool, though.

it'll be on Beyond, at the least
he's being hired on as a consultant and working on adventures too