D&D 5E Give Me Three Reasons To Play Greyhawk

[I'm A Banana]

So, I've got some personal ideas, but I'd like the opinion of the knowledge base here:

If you had to boil down the reasons to play Greyhawk instead of any other D&D setting and present it to someone fairly new to the game (say, a few months' experience) and present it in a list of 3 things, what would you say these are?

What makes Greyhawk different than other settings? What does it offer me that I can't get in other official settings in the D&D pantheon? What can I do with it? What makes it better at those things? What are the "selling points" of Greyhawk?

Note that I'm not too concerned about the history and the context and the Proper Nouns. In this hypothetical, that doesn't add much. I'm interested in what I can actively do with the setting -- in how a Greyhawk experience is different from any other D&D experience.

What say ye?

 

[Gecko85]

http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?410754-Sell-me-on-the-World-of-Greyhawk-please

 

[Ezequielramone]

1- temple of
2- elemental
3- evil

 

[SirAntoine]

1. Greyhawk is a world ripe for political intrigues.
2. Greyhawk has terrific water access by rivers and larger bodies of water throughout most of the land. In this way, travel by the seas is very significant and so are pirates and raiders like the Vikings. And you can often get from one place to another without having to travel through other countries.
3. The elves and other demihumans are relatively low level, so it's more of a human-centric setting.

 

[Ed_Laprade]

1. Its not the
2. Freakin'
3. Realms!

 

[GMforPowergamers]

1. Its not the
2. Freakin'
3. Realms!

I was coming here to say that...

 

[KirayaTiDrekan]

1. If there's a "true" old school or classic D&D setting, Greyhawk is arguably it (one could also argue for the Known World and a couple of others but Greyhawk is the most popular).

2. There's an uncivilized feel to it - go just a mile or two beyond the city walls and the world gets dangerous very quickly.

3. Unlike some other settings, there isn't a "save the world every other month" vibe to it; its perfect for more mercenary characters and sandbox style play.

IMO, of course.

 

[mflayermonk]

This might help:
Grey in the Hawk

By

Nitescreed

http://www.reocities.com/Area51/Capsule/4344/greyinthehawk.htm

 

[Parmandur]

1. Wizards toting six-shooters and ten gallon hats

2. Crashed alien spacecraft turned dungeons

3. Evil Nazi cults of Doom

 

[MonsterEnvy]

The living Greyhawk Gazetteer is pretty cool which contains way more then 3 reason to play in the setting.