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<blockquote data-quote="hastur_nz" data-source="post: 7140475" data-attributes="member: 40592">Greyhawk comes from a day when *everything* that was in D&amp;D, was in Greyhawk.&nbsp; It was the implied setting in PHB and DMG, then the only published setting.Heck, I still remember buying the original Forgotten Realms box set (AD&amp;D days), having loved and DM'd Greyhawk for years; FR was different but not because of anything to do with the options available for PC's, it was a different world with a different style of play implied therein.&nbsp; Over time, 2E screwed a lot of stuff up, Greyhawk fell out of favour, Gygax was disposed of, the Realms got really popular; new campaign settings were introduced which tried to make themselves different from the Default; D&amp;D &amp; Greyhawk diverged.&nbsp; 3.0 brought Greyhawk back as the &quot;default setting&quot;, whatever that really means.&nbsp; 4e and 5e totally ignored Greyhawk, adding stuff like Dragonborn etc.So Greyhawk is what you want it to be.&nbsp; It can be like it was back in the early 1980's, or it can be like it might be if it had actually continued to keep itself 'up to date' (it's not like Greyhawk ever stayed still - as new stuff was added to D&amp;D, people found a place for it in the World of Greyhawk).End of history lesson... <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&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="hastur_nz, post: 7140475, member: 40592"] Greyhawk comes from a day when *everything* that was in D&D, was in Greyhawk. It was the implied setting in PHB and DMG, then the only published setting. Heck, I still remember buying the original Forgotten Realms box set (AD&D days), having loved and DM'd Greyhawk for years; FR was different but not because of anything to do with the options available for PC's, it was a different world with a different style of play implied therein. Over time, 2E screwed a lot of stuff up, Greyhawk fell out of favour, Gygax was disposed of, the Realms got really popular; new campaign settings were introduced which tried to make themselves different from the Default; D&D & Greyhawk diverged. 3.0 brought Greyhawk back as the "default setting", whatever that really means. 4e and 5e totally ignored Greyhawk, adding stuff like Dragonborn etc. So Greyhawk is what you want it to be. It can be like it was back in the early 1980's, or it can be like it might be if it had actually continued to keep itself 'up to date' (it's not like Greyhawk ever stayed still - as new stuff was added to D&D, people found a place for it in the World of Greyhawk). End of history lesson... :) [/QUOTE]

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