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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bupp" data-source="post: 8073060" data-attributes="member: 6784990">I ran campaigns for many, many years using nothing more than the 1983 Boxed Set. I would occasionally mix in bits of From the Ashes, but did not have the Greyhawk Wars happen whole cloth. I think what makes the 1983 Boxed Set a near perfect setting is what the OP mentioned, it's a collection of writing prompts. Hooks. Just enough to give each DM an idea and fill in the blanks how they see fit.Greyhawk is not a global setting for epic heroes. Each of the many campaigns I've run in Greyhawk have been regional affairs, even at higher levels. When starting a new campaign, it was quite easy to move the main setting. Fighting cultists in Perrenland? Holding back the orcs of the Pomarj? Fighting the forces of Iuz in the Vesve forest? The rise of Vecna in the City of Greyhawk? All campaigns I've run, some years apart, and all easily set in that simple box. If we were to see an update to Greyhawk for 5e, I wouldn't want to see any update to the timeline or the world. Give me some subclasses and subraces that are more appropriate to GH. More spells from Bigby, and Tenser and the like. Stats for the Machine of Lum the Mad. Don't add in dragonborn, tieflings, and any other new races, but give a one paragraph write up of suggested ways a DM could add them in. Keep true to what made GH beloved. Give us blank spaces with just enough hooks to inspire.</blockquote>