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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Azzy" data-source="post: 8082462" data-attributes="member: 6563">There's a problem with that midset, though. Forget about thinking of this as trying to pitch Greyhawk to Chaosmancer. That's pretty much not seeing the forest for the trees. This thread is about publishing a Greyhawk setting for 5e and trying to attract new players to experience and enjoy the setting that we hold dear. How would you pitch it to these knew players (who have likely little to no experience with the sword & sorcery literature that inspired not just Greyhawk, but D&D itself? Are you going to tell this prospective new audience to go do their homework to properly understand how cool this setting is? You know what the response to that is going to be, righ? That's going to be big turn-off and the majority of these new players will be like, "No thanks, there's these other settings that I can just dive into without reading some outdated fiction with some questionable content".Treat Chaosmancer as you one of these new players, sell him Greyhawk in a way that doesn't require him to drop what they're doing and essentially do reseach for your sales-pitch has any meaning to them. You have to get a potential consumer to be excited about your product without them having any prior experience if you want that product to sell.Personally, I'd go with: "Come experience the original setting of one of D&D's creators, Gary Gygax. Greyhawk captures the quintessential experience and spirit of D&D itself. Within these lands, fraught with a merciless mad king of a crumbling empire, the demonic might of a cambion demigod, and the machinations of a secret society dedicated to enslaving all others, stand the few, wearied pillars of good and light while, still others, strive to main a balance between all of the opposing factions."Or something to that effect.</blockquote>

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