After Ed Greenwood's FR: Gary Gygax's Greyhawk

[Dungeonosophy]

Unless the Gygax Estate is hostile, how about if WotC made a deal with the Estate, and hired Eric Mona to edit this?:

E. Gary Gygax's World of Greyhawk campaign setting for D&D Next

The goal would be to present Greyhawk as it appeared in Gygax's home campaign.

 

[Sunseeker]

I'd rather 5e develop something new and unique.

 

[Hussar]

Yeah, I gotta go with Shidaku on this one. Greyhawk is built on a number of assumptions that may or may not be true for a given game of D&DNext, given the modularity of it.

I'd almost think that a very, very mechanics light system would likely be a better way to go. Something that's 99% fluff but still works with most of the modules.

 

[NotZenon]

Unless the Gygax Estate is hostile, how about if WotC made a deal with the Estate, and hired Eric Mona to edit this?:

E. Gary Gygax's World of Greyhawk campaign setting for D&D Next

The goal would be to present Greyhawk as it appeared in Gygax's home campaign.

I'd be interested in it as a limited run collectors something or other.

 

[Incenjucar]

I don't think I'd be comfortable with people rifling through a man's personal notes just to make a buck off his name.

 

[fjw70]

Not interested. Such a work would require too much interpretation. If Gary was still alive and wanted to write it then I would be all for it.

Also, Eric Mona editing it? Don't see that happening.

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

Erik Mona's probably the only guy who could do justice to the 'Hawk -- maintaining the classic Gygax canon where iconic and evovling it just slightly in appropriate directions.

I'd buy this product.

 

[johnsemlak]

What does the Gygax estate have to do with it? Doesn't WotC own Greyhawk?

I think some kind of Greyhawk sourcebook would be viable. Sure, a lot of people aren't interested, but a lot of people still use the setting or are still interested in it.

Most of the assumptions Greyhawk is built on are pretty standard to all editions of D&D--the existence of the main PC races, Drow, giants, the underdark, etc. The Dragonborne are a problem, but...

 

[DEFCON 1]

I also think Eric might be a little busy to edit a product for another company.

 

[Dungeonosophy]

Thanks for all your responses--what diverse perspectives.