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

Whizbang Dustyboots · 2026-03-20T00:42:58+0000

bedir than said:
it'll be on Beyond, at the least

Good point. For plenty of people, that's as good as official.

mamba · 2026-03-20T00:46:41+0000

bedir than said:
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.

I went with what the post I replied to said

Dire Bare said:
Having a rift in the community, between the OSR crowd, the modern D&D crowd, and WotC

I am fine with the rift being elsewhere, but then it is even less relevant from my perspective. A Gygax was not involved with D&D since before 2e was released and D&D did just fine without them, so to me there is no 'need' to get them involved now.

Parmandur · 2026-03-20T00:49:05+0000

mamba said:
I went with what the post I replied to said

I am fine with the rift being elsewhere, but then it is even less relevant from my perspective. A Gygax was not involved with D&D since before 2e was released and D&D did just fine without them, so to me there is no 'need' at get them involved now.

Thing is, at an earlier point in 5E, Luke Gygax was plugged in with WotC, same as Weiss & Hickman, or Ed Greenwood, or Joe Mangianello. Somewhere in the shuffle of personnel, those connections all cooled significantly. Now, Ayoub is back to building bridges.

GothmogIV · 2026-03-20T00:59:13+0000

That warms my heart. I'm sure it will be cool for 5.5e players to get a bigger taste of the new Greyhawk. Maybe they'll make it a little gritter to try and attract old heads like me.

Scribe · 2026-03-20T01:19:11+0000

mamba said:
there is no 'need' at get them involved now.

GothmogIV said:
Maybe they'll make it a little gritter to try and attract old heads like me

I do have to wonder if this is outreach to those of us not Millennial and younger.

jerryrice4949 · 2026-03-20T01:21:41+0000

Scribe said:
I do have to wonder if this is outreach to those of us not Millennial and younger.

That would be nice. Maybe a little more gritty turn in what they put out.

Parmandur · 2026-03-20T01:29:34+0000

mamba said:
I went with what the post I replied to said

I am fine with the rift being elsewhere, but then it is even less relevant from my perspective. A Gygax was not involved with D&D since before 2e was released and D&D did just fine without them, so to me there is no 'need' to get them involved now.

Another point from the panel worth mention for context on how Dan Ayoub is likely going to run D&D: Ayoub has been playing D&D since he got the Red Box at age 12.whixh is not super abnormal...but he is still actively playing with his friend group that started with the Red Box in the 80s.

Whizbang Dustyboots · 2026-03-20T01:42:48+0000

jerryrice4949 said:
That would be nice. Maybe a little more gritty turn in what they put out.

I'm not sure I'd view any of the post-TSR content any of the Gygaxes put out as particularly "gritty." Old school, yes, in the sense that "if we didn't bother describing it in 1979, we're not describing it now," but tonally? Nah.

If you want grit, I don't know that this will do much for you, although the OSR will be happy to give you all the grit you can stand.

GothmogIV · 2026-03-20T01:59:14+0000

I like me some grit, brother @Whizbang Dustyboots!

Dire Bare · 2026-03-20T02:01:41+0000

Voadam said:
I would assume a WotC book, anybody can just do a Greyhawk DM's Guild book.

Anyone can do a Forgotten Realms book on D&D Beyond, but the books involving Ed Greenwood are orders of magnitude more popular than books by random fans. Like the current "Souls for the Taking" sitting at #1 for at least a couple of weeks now.

Anyone can do an Eberron book on D&D Beyond, but the books involving Keith Baker are orders of magnitude more popular than books by random fans. Like "Frontiers of Eberron: Quickstone" which has been sitting in the Top 10 for months now.

Anyone can do a Greyhawk book on D&D Beyond . . . ah, you get the idea.