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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MNblockhead" data-source="post: 9350519" data-attributes="member: 6796661">Sorry, yes. I realize that he started working on Greyhawk as his personal setting, like Blackmoore was Arneson's.  I was referring to creating this specific product. But he did not include most of the content from his home setting into the published product. He initially didn't think that a highly detailed setting that spelled everything out was what DMs were looking for. You don't have to take my word for it, Gary discussed it in in threads on ENworld."When I was asked by TSR to do my World of Greyhawk as a commercial product I was taken aback. I had assumed most DMs would far prefer to use their own world settings". <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110615024329/http://www.enworld.org/forum/archive-threads/57832-gary-gygax-q-part-iv-11.html" target="_blank">"Gary Gygax: Q & A (Part IV, Page 11)"</a>. EN World. 2003-11-05. Archived from <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/archive-threads/57832-gary-gygax-q-part-iv-11.html" target="_blank">the original</a> on 2011-06-15. Retrieved 2009-03-15."When I initially began creating adventure material I assumed that the GMs utilizing the work would prefer substance without window dressing, the latter being properly the realm of the GM so as to suit the campaign world and player group". <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121004180853/http://www.enworld.org/forum/archive-threads/171753-gary-gygax-q-part-xii-40.html" target="_blank">"Gary Gygax: Q & A (Part XII, Page 40)"</a>. EN World. 2007-03-28. Archived from <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/archive-threads/171753-gary-gygax-q-part-xii-40.html" target="_blank">the original</a> on 2012-10-04. Retrieved 2009-03-15."In addition, he did not want to publish all the material he had created for his players; he thought he would be unlikely to recoup a fair investment for the thousands of hours he had spent on it. Since his secrets would be revealed to his players, he would be forced to recreate a new world for them afterward." Wikipedia (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greyhawk#cite_ref-100" target="_blank">Greyhawk - Wikipedia</a>).  "As I was running a game with a large number of players involved, I really didn't want to supply them with the whole world on a platter". <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110615024329/http://www.enworld.org/forum/archive-threads/57832-gary-gygax-q-part-iv-11.html" target="_blank">"Gary Gygax: Q & A (Part IV, Page 11)"</a>. EN World. 2003-11-05. Archived from <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/archive-threads/57832-gary-gygax-q-part-iv-11.html" target="_blank">the original</a> on 2011-06-15. Retrieved 2009-03-15."In regards to the timeline for the WoG setting, I had no immediate plan for advancing it as the world was meant to be used by all DMs so desirous, each making it conform to his own campaign needs". <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121005021114/http://www.enworld.org/forum/archive-threads/193204-gary-gygax-q-part-xiii-9.html" target="_blank">"Gary Gygax: Q & A (Part XIII, Page 9)"</a>. EN World. 2007-04-25. Archived from <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/archive-threads/193204-gary-gygax-q-part-xiii-9.html" target="_blank">the original</a> on 2012-10-05. Retrieved 2009-03-15.Of course, he later came around and had plans to publish more details on various regions of the setting but his going to Hollywood and eventual ousting stopped GH from becoming a fully detailed setting like Forgotten Realms.</blockquote>

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