Dungeons & Dragons May Not Come Back to Greyhawk After 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide

D&D seems content with Greyhawk staying in the Dungeon Master's Guide.

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Wizards of the Coast does not appear to have future plans for the Greyhawk setting past the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide. Speaking at a press event earlier this month, Dungeons & Dragons game architect Chris Perkins explained that the inclusion of Greyhawk campaign setting material in the upcoming rulebook was meant to stand on its own. "Basically, we're saying 'Hey DMs, we're giving you Greyhawk as a foundation on which you can build your own setting stuff,'" Perkins said when asked about future Greyhawk setting material. "Whether we get back to Greyhawk or not in some capacity I cannot say, but that's our intention for now. This is the sandbox, it's Greyhawk. Go off and run Greyhawk or Greyhawk-like campaigns with this if you wish. We may not come to this version of Greyhawk for a while because we DMs to own it and play with it. This is not a campaign setting where I think we need to go in and start defining large sections of the world and adding more weight of content that DMs have to sit through in order to feel like they're running a proper Greyhawk campaign."

The 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide includes a campaign setting gazetteer focused on the Greyhawk setting, one of D&D's earliest campaign settings. The use of Greyhawk is intended to be an example for DMs on how to build a full-fledged campaign setting, with an overview of major conflicts and places to explore within the world. New maps of both Oerth and the city of Greyhawk are also included in the rulebook.

However, while it seems like Wizards isn't committing to future Greyhawk campaign setting material, Perkins admitted that the fans still have a say in the matter. "We're not so immutable with our plans that if the fans rose up and said 'Give us something Greyhawk,' that we would say 'No, never,'" Perkins said. "That won't happen."

Perkins also teased the appearance of more campaign settings in the future. "We absolutely will be exploring new D&D worlds and that door is always open," Perkins said.
 

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The fifth in line to the throne is Prince Harry. I can handle Geoff.
If he were to be crowned he would be King Henry IX, and pretty much all previous Henrys were known as Harry or Hal informally. George VI was Bertie to his family. There is a difference between formal and informal names. Geoff mixes them up to comic effect.
 

TiQuinn

Registered User
Geoff doesn't bother me. I mean, I live in a country with a state called Tasmania (after Tasman) and Victoria (after the Queen) and many cities with proper names of then-significant British personages (Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide, etc)..

And your profile lists you as being in Virginia! And the US also has Georgia.

I don't recall ever coming across Ountsy. It sounds vaguely British to me . . . or even some sort of pre-contemporary French.
And if he did something other than call it Geoff. Geoffland, Gefland, I would be amenable.
 

Zeromaru X

Arkhosian scholar and coffee lover
I mean, the language barrier might make the wordplay and humorous angle a little less funny all around?

Yes, I think is part of the issue. Verbobonc is an exception because "bobo" has meaning in Spanish: translates as "dumb". In fact, Verbobonc almost sounds as "ver bobos" ("look at dumb [people]") in Spanish. That's is why is an immersion breaking name, lol.
 


Parmandur

Book-Friend, he/him
Yes, I think is part of the issue. Verbobonc is an exception because "bobo" has meaning in Spanish: translates as "dumb". In fact, Verbobonc almost sounds as "ver bobos" ("look at dumb [people]") in Spanish. That's is why is an immersion breaking name, lol.
Yeah, in English it sounds funny, buy not in an identifiable way...just the "bonk" like a cartoon sound effect and the repeated "bo" sound.
 

Voadam

Legend
Yes, I think is part of the issue. Verbobonc is an exception because "bobo" has meaning in Spanish: translates as "dumb". In fact, Verbobonc almost sounds as "ver bobos" ("look at dumb [people]") in Spanish. That's is why is an immersion breaking name, lol.

For me as I read it with English pronunciations that last o sounds different than the first one.

Ver Bo Bonk is the way I have always said it.

It is one of the more exotic fantasy sounding names in Greyhawk for me. :)

It is also where the Temple of Elemental Evil is located so my 1e campaign spent a lot of time there before heading out to the Wild Coast and Greyhawk.
 

Yes, I think is part of the issue. Verbobonc is an exception because "bobo" has meaning in Spanish: translates as "dumb". In fact, Verbobonc almost sounds as "ver bobos" ("look at dumb [people]") in Spanish. That's is why is an immersion breaking name, lol.
It has meaning in English as well “verb” is a part of speech and the root of verbal, and “bonk” can mean “hit over the head” or a sex act.

I would translate it as “hit over the head with words”, hence the connection with gnomes.
 


Hussar

Legend
There's historical precedent with places named after nicknames rather than proper names. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheikhupura
I mean, good grief, place names have always been silly.

Pictou Nova Scota means "fart" and was probably named for the sulphur deposits around the area. Lake Kejimkujic means "chafed balls" because when you canoe across a big lake without underwear... welll...
 
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