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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GVDammerung" data-source="post: 3559291" data-attributes="member: 33060">This sentiment has been variously expressed by a number of folks.  The sentiment, not advancing the timeline for Greyhawk, is misplaced.  It is misplaced because a) the timeline has already been advanced, that train has left the station, and b) leaving the timeline where it is after LGG is not an saleable option.The LGG sort of, kinda softened the aftermath of the Greyhawk Wars and FtA.  But not entirely.  What LGG leaves you with is something neither fish nor fowl.  LGG era Greyhawk comes off as half a loaf.  To get the other half, the timeline needs to be advanced.If we look at pre-FtA GH, the timeline did not need to be advanced via FtA.  There was an, IMO, exquisite balance.If we look at immediate post-FtA GH, the timeline did not need to be advanced.  Pre Wars GH was wrecked and the setting was thematically consistent, like it or loath it.If we look at LGG era Greyhawk, it is neither balanced nor is it thematically consistent.  It is a hodge podge or, more charitably, it is GH in transition - not fully anything it was but yet to really hint at what it might be.  The LGG authors split the baby and half a baby can't survive long term.  The timelime must then be advanced past the LGG era.If the timeline is not advanced past the LGG era, Greyhawk will remain stone cold dead, a prospect Wotc embraces.  Fans who clamor for no advancing of the timeline post-LGG are doing yeoman's work for Wotc to provide a rationale for why Greyhawk should not be revived - LGG era Greyhawk is unsaleable and here are all these fans demanding that the timeline remain with the unsaleable LGG.  Way to go GH "fans."  With friends like these, GH needs no enemies.</blockquote>

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