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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 9503353" data-attributes="member: 6790260">I think it's a bit uncharitable to leave it at "if for no other reason than to harness nostalgia." In several cases, Greyhawk elements were used as the starting point to tell new stories, or as a core setting conceit to build on themes sincerely added from the Greyhawk milieu. For example, AFAIK, the 4e Kord is pretty much identical in personality and behavior to the Greyhawk Kord, and his presence adds both a fly in the ointment for the otherwise "goody two shoes" deities he bunks with, and a clear case of how someone can be generally neutral but still morally upstanding (since Kord is genuinely convinced to betray his mother and fight against her evil conquest of the world specifically because he realizes how much damage that war is causing to mere mortals caught in the crossfire.)The adventure adaptations were, I admit, probably at least in part expecting to benefit from nostalgia, but I very much doubt nostalgia was the only reason, or we'd have seen quite a few more of them. They seem to have been genuine homage, recognition of Greyhawk's historical importance.</blockquote>