Do you game in Greyhawk?

[VorpalBunny]

Currently Running a Castles and Crusades campaign using the 1983 Boxed Set.

When I get my C&C game up and running I'm doin' the same thing. Seems to me C&C just begs to be run "old-school".

 

[S. Baldrick]

I do. I am presently running the Shackled City adventure path and I have firmly placed it in the World of Grayhawk. I have tried other settings over the 23 years that I have been playing D&D but for whatever reason, I just keep coming back to the World of Grayhawk setting. I can’t help but think that it is a nostalgia thing.

 

[Victim]

Our last 2 campaigns have been in what might be called Greyhawk, but the biggest similarities would be place names and stuff like "Mordenkainen is powerful wizard" and "Iuz is bad." Of course, those are both "was" now.

 

[the Jester]

I used to game in GH, but then Tharizdun woke up and ate it.

 

[Kae'Yoss]

No. For VD&D (vanilla dungeons and dragons), I have the Forgotten Realms. One standard-fantasy world is necessary, but sufficiant.

 

[grodog]

I was wondering how many of you game in the 'generic' DND world of Greyhawk?

Yep.

Is your version the 'standard' version (relatively few changes from established material) or is it a 'customized' version (changes that deviate greatly from established material)?

For some additional thoughts on this subject, check out the WotC GH board thread entitled "What changes have you made to your Greyhawk?"---it's at http://boards.wizards.com/showthread.php?t=382432

What do you like about Greyhawk?

I've always like the idea of the Lords of Neutrality playing off LG, CE, LE, and CG against one another---sort of like the Cosmic Balance from Moorcock's Eternal Champion sagas. Greyhawk has always seemed a much more realistically/potentially "dark" world, for me, because of that moral "ambiguity" if you will.

It doesn't hurt that many of my favorite 1e adventures were set in Greyhawk, or that Greyhawk is generic enough to accomodate just about any type or style of game play, either.

 

[IronWolf]

I DM Forgotten Realms games currently. If I were to DM in another campaign setting though it would almost definitely be in Greyhawk. These two are my choices mainly due to the era I started to play the game in.

 

[cuchulainkevin]

I'm running a group of new players through the 1E version of Greyhawk using the Castles and Crusades ruleset. They are loving it so far (as am I). After Castle Zagig is released, We'll be running a hybrid of the two.

Morty

 

[TerraDave]

The campaign world is in the sig, but the PCs should be heading to Homlet pretty soon.

It is not really D&D without a little Greyhawk in there

 

[Voadam]

Our campaign world that I took over is a post apocalyptic Greyhawk.

There was a war of powers that ended with gods leaving like in Krynn. Thousands of years later there are new gods and the greyhawk gods have reappeared as the Old Gods who do not have as big a following as the Ascended current gods. So we have the old greyhawk maps but places and political boundaries are different, for instance greyhawk city is now Ptolus from the Banewarrens in a declining theocratic empire devoted to a new (only six thousand years or so) god/religion.

This allows for use of maps and familiar gods and spell name references (Bigby et al were actual personages in Greyhawk) but also allow room for plenty of other new stuff.