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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wishbone" data-source="post: 8080192" data-attributes="member: 7025531">I don't think there's anything wrong with people appreciating Greyhawk for different reasons or in a different context and there are likely benefits from introducing more contemporary perspectives. Someone who's unfamiliar with Sword & Sorcery is even capable of drawing inferences that those who are more familiar with the subgenre may overlook in Greyhawk that further enrich everyone's understanding of the setting. Fantasy cultural touchstones have moved on from the 70s and 80s—heck, since Game of Thrones and The Witcher we have popular fantasy properties based on franchises started as recently as the 90s!I'm all for drawing context from history and contemporary fiction to inform why parts of Greyhawk are the way they are as published at the time, but outside of understanding the setting as a historical artifact I don't see how redirecting people to Robert E. Howard or Michael Moorcock as a great hook for people who didn't grow up with those books on buying into the setting in a more contemporary context. Watching the pilot of the Sword & Sorcery parody cartoon Korgoth of Barbaria tells me nothing directly about why Mordenkainen or any of those other wizards with anagram names matter so much to some people.Others in this thread have made some compelling cases for why aspects of Greyhawk matter to D&D and to them in particular, so I don't think a background in Sword and Sorcery is strictly necessary as a hook to get people to participate in this conversation or to sell us on why the setting deserves to be discussed as a part of D&D's future. The fact that some posters are passionate enough about the setting to create 4+ threads on different aspects of it and to attempt to sell everyone on it says there is a vocal minority who are willing to evangelize others on the merits of the setting until we listen to their points.</blockquote>

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