Greyhawk CS Wish List

[William Ronald]

Well, you can always go to WotC's website and find the various Living Greyhawk web pages.

I am doubtful that much can and will be done with the World of Greyhawk setting. The fan base is very fragmented, disagrees over canon, and it may be hard to create a product that is well received by the various factions of Greyhawk fans and the larger gaming public. However, possibly a City of Greyhawk book might be something that would work. As it would be a very regional product, it can avoid some of the bigger canon issues and could well be used in Greyhawk games as well as homebrew games.

 

[haakon1]

Re-set

My wish list, cross-posted/adapted from the Gygax question & answer thread:

I'd re-set Greyhawk.

The original box set is the real "source" material for Greyhawk. Later stuff is only canon if we want it to be. Some of it really doesn't belong. The classic adventures -- Against the Giants series, Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth, Temple of Elemental Evil, and S-series -- are definitely in.

A lot of the stuff from "Greyhawk Wars", a silly board game produced by Lorraine Williams, needs to go.

All of which means the "Living Greyhawk Gazzetteer" is pretty good, but needs editting to make it better -- more Greyhawky.

In particular, my changes are:
- PC's won in Against the Giants/Vault of the Drow. Therefore, Geoff and Sterich were not conquered by giants.
- Bissel was invaded by Ket, but it hasn't lost. It was too strong in the boxed set, with a standing army of 8000 mercenaries, and help from the Knights of the Watch, Veluna, Furyonday, Gran March, Keoland, etc.
- Iuz hasn't conquered so much, and never had a big army of fiends, though the Crook of Rao from the Isle of the Ape did get rid of those he had. For me, he conquered or co-opted the Horned Society, Shield Lands, the Bandit Kingdoms, and the Rovers. I don't care about Stonefist or the Pale. He's fighting Furyondy on the Veng and Veluna through the Vesve, and controls Whyestil Lake.
- Great Kingdom colapsed, and Megedia and Almor were badly effected, but it's not supernatural, it's like the Thirty Years War -- plague, hunger, war, and pestilence have driven out most of the humans.

 

[Erik Mona]

I've asked Charles Ryan if they ever had plans for such a thing and he's said no.

This is true.

as evidenced by the lack of Greyhawk city articles in Dungeon and Dragon Magazines. Erik Mona had freelancers working on articles such as for Irongate but they got canned from the WOTC brass.

This is not true. We published "Istivin: City of Shadows" in Dungeon #117, and have not been told by "WotC brass" (or anyone else) that we cannot do similar articles in the future. I will publish an Irongate article when I receive a publishable manuscript. As it stands, I have received no manuscript at all. Difficult to publish something that doesn't exist.

--Erik

 

[Melkor]

This is true.

Just have to say....

This is CRAP.

 

[Sandain]

I would love for WoTC to re-realease Greyhawk City same as what they did with Waterdeep. Also I would like a return to Castle Greyhawk.

 

[Vascant]

While as much as I would love to see Greyhawk CS on a shelf, it just won't happen. That does not stop me or anyone else from working on Greyhawk. There is a ton of material on the web just for GH and dealing with GH. I have been running a GH Campaign since 84, nothing WotC does or doesn't do is going to change that.

What I do love is Dungeon, they have put out some quality GH material as of late and I really really hope it continues. Combine that with Canonfire, life is good.

 

[Aeolius]

Greyhawk Unbound - Assume a GH DM has access to ALL WotC 3.0/3.5e rulebooks and supplements and use them in the Gazetteer rewrite (Lots of gray sidebars).

Maps showing ocean depths and currents.

Flumphs!! Other campaigns settings have stolen the drow, underdark, etc etc... The flumph must remain Oerth-specific!

Mysterious Places

Oerthblood

 

[William Ronald]

I would like to recommend Canonfire as an editional source of Greyhawk articles, along with what appears in Dungeon, as well as the Living Greyhawk homepage.

So, I would suggest that if people want Greyhawk material, send Erik Mona a few good manuscripts. Possibly more player support of the setting might be useful in helping to make the case for new Greyhawk products.

As for the whole canon issue, I have always thought that what works well at the gaming table is the best standard. Haakon's approach might work for him, while others may have a different take on the setting. As long as the DM and the players are having fun, that is what matters. (I have seen some Greyhawk threads turn into canon wars, so I have to compliment everyone on this thread for being level headed.)