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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TGryph" data-source="post: 8083296" data-attributes="member: 19651">Howdy!      Just my two cents worth, as Greyhawk is one of my favorite settings..in fact, the only one I have ever used for a D&D style game other than my homebrew world. It was also the inspiration for my homebrew world when I first bought the 1983 Folio new when it first came out (yes, I am old). Still, this folio along with a lot of input from all th eold school classic fantasy literature found it's way into that homebrew (yes I have read many, many of the classic fantasy novels so I feel I can speak to that end of the discussion if anyone is interested in a Grognard opinion <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />.     Regarding the feel of Greyhawk, I feel it is more of a Heroic Fantasy world with Sword & Sorcery themed characters. The very presence of Fantasy Race nations almost eliminates it from being classified as "Sword & Sorcery" in my eyes.      Anyway, the main thing that attracted me to Greyhawk being the first official published D&D setting, was the rather incompleteness of it. There was just enough information, in my younger eyes, to inspire me to make it my own...to make my own version of it and use it as I saw fit for my own campaigns. This very adapatability of the setting means, gaain IMHO that a revision or updating is not really necessary. I sat down with my 5E books and my folio and was very quickley able to adapt Greyhawk for use with 5E, if I ever saw fit to do so.  Tieflings? Perfectly adapatable to the elite of the Horned Society or even the Rhennee lake folk. Dargonborn? I threw them in the Hepmonaland as a sort of farctures Aztec society, although imigrants across the Bright desert wold work as well.  That being said, I find 5E, due to its higher-power PC-High Fantasy feel to be a poor fit for Greyhawk, but as an exercise it was easily done.     So as and Old Gamer..no, I really do not want or need to see Greyhawk adapted or updated...I have enough years under my belt to do it myself. Happy Gaming!</blockquote>

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