Best of Dragon, How about ? ...

[Alzrius]

I'm positive there's a large enough audience for something like this. And not just for Greyhawk, mind you, but that segment of fandom has certainly proven it can impact the sales of the magazines.

If the Shackled City and Dragon Compendium books do well, you can bet we'll strongly consider a project like this. It isn't as if we haven't thought of it before.

While statements like that make me hopeful, isn't there a fair chance WotC'd nix the project? I ask because, at a seminar at Gen Con, you (Erik) said that WotC didn't seem to like Paizo getting too close to the "core" of the GH setting for some reason...hence why they allowed the Istivin material, but pulled the plug on planned articles on the Free City of Greyhawk itself.

 

[Erik Mona]

The first version of the Age of Worms outline set the campaign explicitly in the World of Greyhawk. The folks at Wizards (rightly, I've come to think) worried that putting too much emphasis on city of Greyhawk politics and the like would turn off readers who didn't use that setting, so the version of the Age of Worms that's hitting print monthly in Dungeon is a little less explicit in its use of setting conventions.

I don't believe that this comment was aimed in a general sense, since we have some significant pre-approved Greyhawk content coming up in the magazines.

--Erik

 

[Thorin Stoutfoot]

I'm positive there's a large enough audience for something like this. And not just for Greyhawk, mind you, but that segment of fandom has certainly proven it can impact the sales of the magazines.

If the Shackled City and Dragon Compendium books do well, you can bet we'll strongly consider a project like this. It isn't as if we haven't thought of it before.
--Erik

I'm not going to buy Shackled City (already have the magazines, thank you), but I will probably get the Dragon Compendium. I've never had a subscription to dragon (the articles have been pretty bleaugh for me), but the "best of" might have good stuff that I can use.

 

[Mercule]

Greyhawk in Dragon isn't a huge lure to me. Not a turn off, just "filler", to an extent. A Greyhawk Dragon Compendium would at least get me to look at it, if not buy it.

Why the difference? Dunno. Probably comes to what I look for in a periodical vs. a "sourcebook".

 

[RichGreen]

The first version of the Age of Worms outline set the campaign explicitly in the World of Greyhawk. The folks at Wizards (rightly, I've come to think) worried that putting too much emphasis on city of Greyhawk politics and the like would turn off readers who didn't use that setting, so the version of the Age of Worms that's hitting print monthly in Dungeon is a little less explicit in its use of setting conventions.

I don't believe that this comment was aimed in a general sense, since we have some significant pre-approved Greyhawk content coming up in the magazines.

--Erik

Hi Erik,

How does the relationship between Paizo and Wizards work? What kind of things do Wizards want you to include (tie-ins with new WotC products?) and not include in the magazines?

I am looking forward to Best of the Dragon having bought Shackled City, and would like to see the best GH and FR material featured in forthcoming setting specific compilation books.

Cheers


Richard

 

[jshelky]

Erik, just wanted to chime in and thank you for responding and to say it looks like you've given me that last little incentive to pick up the Shackled City Hardcover. Only been resisting since I own the mags. And I've had the Best of hardcover on my wish list since it was announced.