D&D 5E Greyhawk: Pitching the Reboot

[haakon1]

They have really been moving away from the Forgotten Realms as the base assumption for a few years, amd having a general description and map in the DMG means they can say "the default setting for this Adventure is The Pale, but in FR you can set it here, or In Eberron there" would be a pretty sensible approach.

I’ve never played or run a Forgotten Realms campaign, but it’s more or less synonymous with D&D setting now, from the movie and BG3. (I run Greyhawk and DM’s I’ve played with generally do their own setting, if any.)

Any idea why WotC wants to change that?

 

[haakon1]

FR has descriptions of common magic at the local levels and lots of magically competent people in lots of places

My impression is FR has “magic as technology”, outside the dungeon and related areas, whereas Greyhawk generally doesn’t.

 

[haakon1]

Actually a book on the personalities of Greyhawk would be a fascinating read.

Look for the AD&D product “Rogues Gallery”, for some of them.

 

[Parmandur]

I’ve never played or run a Forgotten Realms campaign, but it’s more or less synonymous with D&D setting now, from the movie and BG3. (I run Greyhawk and DM’s I’ve played with generally do their own setting, if any.)

Any idea why WotC wants to change that?

I don't think they do want to change it, though their most popular Setting is "Homebrew", and by a large margin. Hence whubtheybfocus on the "D&D Multiverse" as the D&D Setting, to service the majority who use either FR, GH, or a generic-ish Homebrew thst can use stuff from an FR or GH book.

 

[Scott Christian]

I don't think they do want to change it, though their most popular Setting is "Homebrew", and by a large margin. Hence whubtheybfocus on the "D&D Multiverse" as the D&D Setting, to service the majority who use either FR, GH, or a generic-ish Homebrew thst can use stuff from an FR or GH book.

I don't think "homebrew" is the most popular setting. Is there a stat I missed about it?

 

[Parmandur]

I don't think "homebrew" is the most popular setting. Is there a stat I missed about it?

Years ago, but it is Homebrew with ~50-60%, FR with 25%, and all the other Settigns the remainder.

About half of homwbrewers make a FR/GH compliant Setting, so FR/GH materials are useful.

 

[Parmandur]

I don't think "homebrew" is the most popular setting. Is there a stat I missed about it?

Admittedly, this is ridiculously old bow, but I see little reason to expect the percentages have changed from what Perkins sayseven so:

"Home-brew vs. published -- A great bulk of those who play D&D run homebrew settings. But of those home-brew campaigns, over half of those homebrewers do pillage from other settings ... 15% or 50% of the world they've created has hawked stuff from other worlds. They're comfortable pillaging our products for ideas. That homebrew number, I can't remember the exact percentage, but I think it's like 55% homebrew. And then it's like 35% Forgotten Realms, and then everything else ... Very few people right now, turns out, running Dark Sun campaigns. A sliver of a sliver. Very few people running Hollow World campaigns. Very few people are running Mystara campaigns. It pretty much goes Homebrew, Forgotten Realms, I think Greyhawk's at 5% ands then everybody else is at 2% or 1%."

WotC's Chris Perkins Talks About... Everything! Upcoming Storylines, Products, Staffing, Other World

WotC's Chris Perkins, Principal Designer for Dungeons & Dragons, was at Gamehole Con a couple of weeks ago. He took part in a panel there in which he covered a lot of things - product schedules, partnerships, other worlds, story flavours, staffing, upcoming storylines, Greyhawk, and so much...

www.enworld.org

 

[Yaarel]

I love the fact that homebrew remains the normative D&D experience.

My only concern is the Eberron setting. Hopefully, homebrew, FR, and other settings have incorporated many of the Eberronisms, including religious diversity, urban environments, cultural applications of magic, and so on.

Greyhawk too is open to all of these, especially regionally.

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

Admittedly, this is ridiculously old bow, but I see little reason to expect the percentages have changed from what Perkins sayseven so:

"Home-brew vs. published -- A great bulk of those who play D&D run homebrew settings.

Well, you know what that means, right?

I DEMAND OFFICIAL SUPPORT OF THE WORLD OF HOMEBREW SETTING!

That's right. I can't believe that Hasbro has the sheer gall to refuse to release an official guide to the most popular setting for all of D&D. I mean, they are practically peeing on my leg and telling me it's raining.

#HOMEBREWCONFIRMED!

 

[UngainlyTitan]

I also think a lot of people use published settings like I do, I will use the maps, the locations, npc'd, and lore when I remember them but will change and ignore stuff and import locations and stuff from other setting as I feel the need. Official lore and contunity means nothing. It is a starting point for me and I only remember half of it at any time anyway.
it is effectively a derived homebrew.