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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Yaarel" data-source="post: 9370361" data-attributes="member: 58172">If there is a 5e version of the Greyhawk setting, I hope to see Gygaxs World Of Greyhawk deconstructed, then reconstructed with current ethical and culturally sensitive perspectives taking priority in the updating of its texts. The WOG text is already minimal and there is little to change, but the surgical changes can run deep, especially with regard to how the Human ethnicities "evolve" from each other and how the setting represents various Human ethnicities. For example, I am unhappy with how Greyhawk presents stereotypes about Nordic cultures when drawing "inspiration". I find the origins appalling for the Indigenous of Hepmonaland. Likewise the Flan are inspirations from Canadian and American Indigenous and even when generally positive, require sensitivity. Generally, Gygaxs Greyhawk is a kind of ethnocentrism, where the feudalism of medieval England, Denmark, Germany and France, is rendered as if an American frontier of "cowboys and indians" − and all of this requires sensitive scrutiny today. Relatedly, the weird obsession with eye color and skin color feels inappropriate today. I suspect a few small, discrete but systematic, updates are sufficient.The WOG can be system agnostic, and easy to use for any edition of D&D. But it should have the 5e core classes and core species in mind, with the modern version of the Psionic power source, and supply 5e statblocks wherever useful. I like how all the 1e angels and devils are Psionic beings. Religion needs to be more culturally relativistic like Eberron is. Players need to decide whatever they want for there own characters. The topic of religion is itself one of the "Session Zero" discussions that require mutual consent.Old school Gygax World of Greyhawk with a facelift.I prefer to see the 5e cosmology with Feywild and Shadowfell, including Fey Elves, Gnomes, Illusionists and Enchanters, and Shadow Undead, Necromancers, and souls resting in peace. The Ethereal Plane is already canon within WOG, and a Positive Ethereal (Fey) and a Negative Ethereal (Shadow) seem reasonable understandings. Where the 1e cosmology has its own kind of Shadow Plane, make this instead the same thing as the "Deep Ethereal" − including the Deep Fey and the Deep Shadowfell − which is all beyond the Material Plane. The Fey Domains of Delight and the Shadow Domains of Dread are in this "Deep".</blockquote>

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