I like the historical side myself. While there are better people out there documenting the history of RPGs themselves, I prefer discussing and writing about the historical lore of the meta-settings. Greyhawk for me specifically.
I have loved d&d since the early 80s and I've done tons of projects for the fan community over the years, but I have never desired to work for wotc. Employee or otherwise. This is a company that routinely fires employees at Christmas. Like others said, it's a very narrow, competitive industry...
I'm old, but I definitely live by a personal code of bigger page count/price tag = less use. Smaller publications get more use and thus get tore up, but that's their function, not to be a high end work of art.
Besides being too large to fit, I've argued Undermountain is FR's best "dungeoncrawl" and was a glaring omission from a book titled "Yawning Portal". This two-part release however feels right and should be quality. Now let's see WotC man up and do a City of Greyhawk-Greyawk Ruins two-parter.
Great article. I used to rail on 4E for a lot of things and wrecking Faerun was the worst of it. And I'm a Greyhawk fan! The part about RA and Ed in those meetings would've ticked me off if I had heard them 10 years ago.
Good job planting that in his head Mistwell. :D
The point of your transcript I referred to earlier in the thread was this one (emphasis mine):
They said not just a single product, for each setting product. And the part about seeing for the first time and not requiring prior knowledge, to me...
Well not touching Greyhawk or if they do it will be distilled somehow because they said they don't want new fans burdened by prior knowledge in these setting treatments.
As someone who has been waving the Greyhawk banner online quite a long time without rest, I'd love to see Mearls be more forthcoming about this then. Bring in some new blood, modernize it, whatever. I'm not getting any younger! ;)
Greyhawk! He uttered the magic word that summons me! :lol:
Okay Mearls, you've broke the ice, let's keep it moving in that direction now. Greyhawk THAC0 maybe? Or hey the seventh stat, Greyhawk Comeliness! *snark*
Greyhawk! He uttered the magic word that summons me! :lol:
Okay Mearls, you've broke the ice, let's keep it moving in that direction now. Greyhawk THAC0 maybe? Or hey the seventh stat, Greyhawk Comeliness! *snark*
Ditto all that. (also from central Illinois) Having gone to Gencon 10-12 times I felt as if gaming was slipping farther down my list of stuff to do in Indy (which I love). At Garycon I did a TON of a gaming and you ran into authors and artists at every turn. Much more intimate.