TheSword
Legend
Besides the lack of ongoing support, one of the reasons that I think Greyhawk suffers in comparison to other campaign settings is the lack of support in other media to expand and add meat to the bones of the basic supplements and modules. Key to this is novels and computer games.
Greyhawk has three dozen novels by a range of authors and a single computer game of dubious quality.
Compare this to over 300 Forgotten Realms novels, and dozens of computer games, many of which were award winning. We don’t spend all our time playing the tabletop game and computer roleplaying games and novels fill the gaps. Dragonlance while no longer supported still had hundreds of novels.
Other settings have similar or fewer volumes of novels but are more niche/unique and therefore more distinctive (most had at least one quality crpg though, some had several). Dark Sun, Planescape, Birthright, Ravenloft by their unique nature and longer term published support have a much stronger IP.
This comment may not be very popular on this thread but I think it goes someway to explain why most people are only vaguely aware of Greyhawk in the few Easter eggs and references that have survived in the core rule spells, gods and magic items. Even when they have played the game for 30 years like me.
Im not sure much can be done to fix this either!
Greyhawk has three dozen novels by a range of authors and a single computer game of dubious quality.
Compare this to over 300 Forgotten Realms novels, and dozens of computer games, many of which were award winning. We don’t spend all our time playing the tabletop game and computer roleplaying games and novels fill the gaps. Dragonlance while no longer supported still had hundreds of novels.
Other settings have similar or fewer volumes of novels but are more niche/unique and therefore more distinctive (most had at least one quality crpg though, some had several). Dark Sun, Planescape, Birthright, Ravenloft by their unique nature and longer term published support have a much stronger IP.
This comment may not be very popular on this thread but I think it goes someway to explain why most people are only vaguely aware of Greyhawk in the few Easter eggs and references that have survived in the core rule spells, gods and magic items. Even when they have played the game for 30 years like me.
Im not sure much can be done to fix this either!