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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JiffyPopTart" data-source="post: 8077201" data-attributes="member: 4881">We are 17 pages in an my takeaway is....People passionate enough about Greyhawk to champion it on ENWorld don't all have the same  idea of what 5e Greyhawk would be and attempts to try to get that nailed down have resulted in a shotgun of interesting campaign setting ideas but nothing cohesive that says "This combination of things would make a good setting.I do think that billing it as "The original D&D setting" isn't a bad start.  Some younger players might be interested in that.  I doubt most younger player know who Gygax even is, so billing it under his name isn't going to get you the new blood you are seeking.A second common theme that keeps popping up is name level kingdom building.  There is a distinct lack of that in official 5e sources, so making that a focus of a large part of the crunch in the book would probably help to sell a lot more books.Lesser themes I see here are the "gritty" or "low magic" ideas.  I would support the player crunch portion of the book including no magic alternate versions of some of the classes you could pull it off with.  I think that would sell a book to many.So, to sum it all up....The Greyhawk Campaign Setting should be billed as "The setting D&D started with!", and the actual contents of the book should include a very detailed history of the sections of Greyhawk that are focused on in the main story, as well as updated maps everyone seems to really like from the old box.  Crunchwise it should include non-magical versions of some classes, tips for running an old-style game (XP for GP, non-story-based character play, GM versus players style dungeons, class/race restrictions), kingdom building (and other name level pursuits for the different classes, and finally some of the important magic spells, items, and artifacts central to the history and world of Greyhawk.How's that?</blockquote>

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